"JARMAN (all this maddening beauty") and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts includes a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena), and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich's work. "Svich...
"JARMAN (all this maddening beauty") and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE Award-winning...
Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness, and the other. Originally directed by Martin Harvey and performed by undergraduate students at the University of Exeter, Wellclose Square and Unsex Me Here analyze cultural marginalization against the backdrop of infamous historical events. MacDonald, who is cerebral...
Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical ori...
Widely considered one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theater, Andras Visky has enjoyed growing audiences and increased critical acclaim over the last fifteen years. Nonetheless, his plays have yet to reach an English-language audience. This volume, edited by Jozefina Komporaly, begins to correct this by bringing together a translated collection of Visky s work. The book includes the first English-language anthology of Visky s best known plays Juliet, I Killed My Mother, and Porn as well as critical analysis and an exploration of Visky s Barrack...
Widely considered one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theater, Andras Visky has enjoyed growing audiences and increased critical acclaim ov...
Plays in Time collects four plays set during influential events from the late twentieth-century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture program; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well-funded climate change deniers. In each play in this anthology, nature, poetry, ritual, and empathy are presented in contrast to the abuse of persons and world. Despite their serious topics, the plays are full of humor and distinctively entertaining personalities. Each...
Plays in Time collects four plays set during influential events from the late twentieth-century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps;...