Empty Figure on an Empty Stage The Theatre of Samuel Beckett and His Generation
Les Essif
An original and exciting approach to the theatre of the absurd.
This study considers the ways playwrights draw meaning from emptiness. With reference to actual performances of dramatic works, Les Essif examines drama associated with nonrealistic movement known as theatre of the absurd, focusing on the ways dramatists create an impression of emptiness not only on the stage but also in the body and mind of the central character. Essif makes a case for the meta-dramatic fusion of...
Empty Figure on an Empty Stage The Theatre of Samuel Beckett and His Generation
The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of French-language plays as models, Les Essif leads readers through the process of exploring drama and building a successful play with an eye toward applying re-creative strategies.
Essif promotes an array of new strategies for planning, producing, analyzing, and theorizing theatre, covering such essential topics as: exercises to...
The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and ...
Representation of American characters and spaces in French plays have increased dramatically in number, nature and nuance since the 1960s, and this book explores the role that 'America' plays in the French imagination, as it translates on the French stage. The book begins with an introduction that brings together a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, including Baudrillard's concepts of American 'unculture' and 'hyperreality, ' Debray's 'homo americanus, ' and Eagleton's distinction between a dialectical culture and an undialectical one. The following four chapters are organized...
Representation of American characters and spaces in French plays have increased dramatically in number, nature and nuance since the 1960s, and this bo...
