"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" --Essays in Theatre
..". an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." --Theatre Journal
"In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon, ' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant."...
"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretical...
Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater's increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the "landscape dramaturgy" of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud's trip to the Sierra Madre, Gertrude Stein's landscape theory and practice, Guillermo Gomez-Pena's "border subjects," and Bayreuth and Disneyland as cultic sites, Land/Scape/Theater draws on a broad range of theory, dramatic texts, and performance. All aspects of modern theater, these...
Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater's increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as ...
This collection of essays and play texts explore how modernist theater both reflected and contributed to the century's unparalleled social and political upheavals.
This collection of essays and play texts explore how modernist theater both reflected and contributed to the century's unparalleled social and politic...
