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Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1680531786
"This is a series of essays on contemporary theatre in the United States"--
Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809321785
"Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.
Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761864011
This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.
Author : Bruce Alvin King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0333487397
Author : Kara Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137597830
This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the transformation of the novel onto the stage in the work of Mitchell, and in The Red Badge of Courage, The Kite Runner, Anne Frank, and Fanny Hill. Next, it examines contemporary radical adaptations of Trojan Women and The Iliad. Finally, it looks at five different approaches to postmodern metatheatrical adaptation in early modern texts of Hamlet, The Changeling, and Faustus, as well as the work of the Neo-Futurists, and the mash-up Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Overall, this comprehensive study offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation.
Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123360831
The book applies playwright John Guare's statement that, "the war against naturalism," is the history of the American theatre in the Twentieth-Century to selected plays by important contemporary American playwrights. Crucial to the argument is the recognition that a war presupposes two sides with neither side defeating the other, for if naturalistic theatre were to win, all theatre would be linear with characters circumscribed by their heredity and environment. If non-naturalistic theatre were to win, all theatre would be a hodgepodge of incoherent images. After isolating elements of a naturalistic play in its philosophical and mode of production sense, the book examines plays that wage war in language and character. The plays are all of the past few decades: some by Foreman and Wellman are disorienting; some by Albee, Groff, and Maxwell are controversial; others by Eno and Corthron are by playwrights on the verge of major careers; still others by Overmyer and Jenkin are drawing aspiring playwrights to them as models of new, exciting writing for the theatre. All of them, whether colliding genres and styles or destabilizing meaning as in plays by Gibson and Long or reclaiming a mystery as in plays by Ludlam, Greenberg, and Donagy, challenge naturalism's boundaries. The book not only provides an approach to the contemporary American drama-theatre, but also brings together playwrights not perceived as having any connections other than the fact that they are creating plays today. The text is appropriate for undergraduate students through professors and practitioners.
Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349215829
Author : David Savran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015012416197
David Savran, head of University of Regina, Canada drama department, interviews 20 American playwrights, who discuss early influences on their art, their ways of working, their views of one another's plays and their visions of American theatre. In the introduction to each interview, Savran lays out the playwrights' achivements and provides insights into their work.
Author : Annette Saddik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630660
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.
Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136119088
An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author : Konstantinos Blatanis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640087
The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.
Author : Robert Andreach
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781938288340
In this follow-up to his 2012 The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy, Robert J. Andreach continues his unique study of dramatic structure as evidenced through the overarching themes of contemporary American trilogies. The themes of the first play in a trilogy, he shows, can be far different from those developed as the sequence continues, citing examples from playwrights as varied as David Rabe and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Quiara Alegráa Hudes. Looking at the ways structure in a tragedy can be substituted for the Aristotelian plot, Andreach makes clear that because creating or reinventing oneself can be such a primary motivating force in American culture, a character's failed attempt to change the structure or plot of his or her life may indeed be tragic. The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older ones by American, British, and European playwrights, with examples such as the Hunger Games trilogy and the Fifty Shades trilogy moving more recently even into the popular sphere. Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theater and a literary critic, Robert Andreach is in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiences.
Author : Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408134801
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
Author : Frank N. Dauster
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838753450
"In this collection, nine specialists in Spanish American theatre examine social and aesthetic issues reflected in today's vital drama." "The essays in this volume reflect a pattern of interests rapidly becoming dominant among scholars. Several of them deal with questions of genre or focus on metatheatre and parody, theatrical techniques widespread in Latin America. The majority treat these topics in conjunction with their social context. Dominant themes include the question of whether there can be culture-specific genres, incorporating the extremely varied ethnic and cultural strands of the Spanish American social fabric, or the use (and reinterpretation) of tragic and comic structures and classical myths to express social marginality or demythologize received history. A number of essays focus on the problematic situation of women in Spanish American society and their struggle to achieve equality in a highly traditional culture. At the same time the authors examine the role of women in the theatre, both as protagonists and as creative artists, and their struggle to gain acceptance of nontraditional roles and lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1780343485
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions.