Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama

ISBN-13: 9781107584815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 285 str.

Julia Jarcho

Opis

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

Recenzje

'This book is a testament to the importance of scholarly work that not only considers theatre as one of many manifestations in the large bubbling pot of cultural production but also attends to the intricacies of medial specificity.' Eleanor Skimin, Theatre Survey

Spis treści

Part I. Modernism's Negative Theatrics: 1. Introduction: negative theatrics; 2. 'Something stranger yet': theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein; 3. 'Gesture towards the universe': theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot; Part II. Beyond the Present: Playwrights at the Turn of the Millennium: 4. Introduction: staging writing today; 5. The promise of 'playwriting': Suzan-Lori Parks; 6. 'Small, fierce creatures': Mac Wellman's auratic theater.