Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage

ISBN-13: 9780253330321 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

Nora M. Alter

Opis

..". a thoughtful and important treatment of the international tensions of the period as they were embodied in theatre practice. It is the only book of its kind on the subject, and a valuable source of production information." --Theatre Journal..". an excellent discussion of the aesthetics of theater." --ChoiceThe escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s unleashed worldwide protest. Playwrights grappled with the complexities of post-imperialist politics and with the problems of creating effective political theatre in the television age. The ephemeral theatre these writers created, today little-known and rarely studied, provides an important window on a complex moment in culture and history.