Homebody Kabul

Homebody Kabul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Homebody Kabul book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Homebody/Kabul

Tony Kushner
Homebody Kabul Book PDF

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781458781383

Get Book

Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner Pdf

Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.

Tony Kushner

James Fisher
Tony Kushner Book PDF

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786425365

Get Book

Tony Kushner by James Fisher Pdf

Playwright Tony Kushner is a voice of intellectualism, neo-socialism, gay activism and political outrage in an era when the political pendulum has swayed to the right. Through scalding humor, thought, and compassion, he explores political dynamics and the human condition in the modern era, shedding light on and giving hope for the direst of circumstances. His best known work, Angels in America, delves beneath the anti-gay rhetoric and political superficiality of the AIDS pandemic to true suffering and transformation. His political epic Homebody/Kabul engages the issue of terrorism and conflicting fundamental beliefs. In this book 11 scholars explore the works of Tony Kushner across his career. Several address Angels: one explores the presentation of homosexuality by Kushner compared to that of Tennessee Williams, who wrote in a less tolerant era; another places Angels in the contexts of Hegel's concept of freedom and the gay revolution; a third discusses the play in terms of queer theory and politics. Homebody/Kabul is examined in two essays, one analyzing media reaction, the other exploring cultural and economic differences, religious fundamentalism and the "West's luxurious predominance in the world." Other studies address relationships in Kushner's works to William Inge's 1950 play Come Back, Little Sheba; the plays of experimentalist Adrienne Kennedy; and fascist creep in the era of playwrights W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, among other topics.

Homebody/Kabul

Tony Kushner
Homebody Kabul Book PDF

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : British
ISBN : 6612468661

Get Book

Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner Pdf

The definitive edition of Tony Kushner's extraordinary play.

Understanding Tony Kushner

James Fisher
Understanding Tony Kushner Book PDF

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1570037493

Get Book

Understanding Tony Kushner by James Fisher Pdf

Surveys the writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 'Angels in America' and co-author of the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film 'Munich'. This book guides readers through Kushner's influences and creations to map the importance of his work in postmodern literary and cultural landscapes.

The Theater of Tony Kushner

James Fisher
The Theater of Tony Kushner Book PDF

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415942713

Get Book

The Theater of Tony Kushner by James Fisher Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Performing Loss

Jodi Kanter
Performing Loss Book PDF

Author : Jodi Kanter
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780809389575

Get Book

Performing Loss by Jodi Kanter Pdf

In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing, author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. Performing Loss provides teachers, students, and others interested in performance with strategies for reading, writing, and performing loss as communities—in the classroom, the theater, and the wider public sphere. From an adaptation of Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness to a reading of Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play, from Kanter’s own experience creating theater with terminally ill patients and federal prisoners to a visual artist’s response to September 11th, Kanter shows in practical, replicable detail how performing loss with community members can transform experiences of isolation and paralysis into experiences of solidarity and action. Drawing on academic work in performance, cultural studies, literature, sociology, and anthropology, Kanter considers a range of responses to grief in historical context and goes on to imagine newer, more collaborative, and more civically engaged responses. Performing Loss describes Kanter’s pedagogical and artistic processes in lively and vivid detail, enabling the reader to use her projects as models or to adapt the techniques to new communities, venues, and purposes. Kanter demonstrates through each example the ways in which writing and performing can create new possibilities for mourning and living together.

Text & Presentation, 2007

Stratos E. Constantinidis
Text Presentation 2007 Book PDF

Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451180

Get Book

Text & Presentation, 2007 by Stratos E. Constantinidis Pdf

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 31st annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Chicano theatre, the Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French theatre, actresses and modern Hamlet, Asian theatre, Antigone in pre- and post-communist Germany, adapting an Internet comic strip for the stage, and the future of dramatic literature in the academy, among others.

Anti-War Theatre After Brecht

Lara Stevens
Anti War Theatre After Brecht Book PDF

Author : Lara Stevens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137538888

Get Book

Anti-War Theatre After Brecht by Lara Stevens Pdf

Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of this century and the last including Elfriede Jelinek, Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous and Tony Kushner. Anti-war Theatre After Brecht grapples with the problem of how to make theatre that protests the policies of democratically elected Western governments in a post-Marxist era. It shows how the Internet has become a key tool for disseminating anti-war play texts and how online social media forums are changing traditional dramatic aesthetics and broadening opportunities for spectator access, engagement and interaction with a work and the political alternatives it puts forward.

Theatre and War

J. Colleran
Theatre and War Book PDF

Author : J. Colleran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137006301

Get Book

Theatre and War by J. Colleran Pdf

How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights Book PDF

Author : Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408134818

Get Book

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights by Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané Pdf

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.

Poetics of Politics

Sebastian M. Herrmann,Carolin Alice Hofmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert,Frank Usbeck
Poetics of Politics Book PDF

Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann,Carolin Alice Hofmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert,Frank Usbeck
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Winter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783825364472

Get Book

Poetics of Politics by Sebastian M. Herrmann,Carolin Alice Hofmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert,Frank Usbeck Pdf

This volume proposes the ‘poetics of politics’ as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a ‘grand epochal transition.’ Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic – always locally specific – that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s

Sharon Friedman,Cheryl Black
Modern American Drama Playwriting in the 1990s Book PDF

Author : Sharon Friedman,Cheryl Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153653

Get Book

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s by Sharon Friedman,Cheryl Black Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997); * Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive (1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus (1996); * Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).

Tony Kushner's Postmodern Theatre

Hussein Al-Badri
Tony Kushner s Postmodern Theatre Book PDF

Author : Hussein Al-Badri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443870337

Get Book

Tony Kushner's Postmodern Theatre by Hussein Al-Badri Pdf

The book is an insightful and thorough examination of one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today, Tony Kushner, and his theatricalization of politics. Moreover, it draws heavily on Kushner’s wide range of themes and techniques. As such, it will be beneficial for graduate students and scholars who are concerned with the realm of contemporary American drama at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In addition, the book will appeal to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner and his major influences such as Bertolt Brecht, and will also be valuable for readers with a general interest in American drama. This book is primarily concerned with exploring and analyzing political discourse as dramatized in the work of Tony Kushner. The author’s point of departure is the concept of political theatre as developed by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht. This theoretical exploration serves a double purpose: first, it is meant to provide a statement of the definitions and concepts central to this study, such as political discourse, political theatre, and postmodern theatre; second, it offers the tools of analysis by which to read and analyze Tony Kushner’s postmodern, politically-oriented texts. Through this, the book defines the major features of Kushner’s postmodern theatre and explores how he theatricalizes politics. American drama in the 1980s and the 1990s witnessed a noticeable thematic shift from the exclusively personal plays and musicals that once dominated American theatre for a long period of time to an increasing number of plays which put greater emphasis on exploring issues and questions of socio-political interest. As a result of this thematic shift, the predominantly private settings and familial character relationships of the traditional family play have been replaced by a great variety of public settings and non-familial characters. Tony Kushner’s theatre is a pioneering attempt in this respect. In Kushner’s theatre, there is no room for the traditional family plays which dominated the American stage in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner has found that there is not enough political discourse in contemporary American Theatre. For this reason, he writes his plays to shed special light on the politics of American society in the 1980s, the 1990s, and in the beginnings of the 21st century.

The Problems of Viewing Performance

Michael Y. Bennett
The Problems of Viewing Performance Book PDF

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351166942

Get Book

The Problems of Viewing Performance by Michael Y. Bennett Pdf

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge, they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and often after the performance event, knowledge of performance is made more accurate by superimposing the experiences and justified beliefs of multiple viewers. These differences in the viewing experience make knowledge surrounding a performance intersubjective. Ultimately, this book explains the how and the why audience members have different viewing experiences. The Problems of Viewing Performance is important reading for theatre and performance students, scholars and practitioners, as it unpacks the dynamics of spectatorship and explores how audiences work.

Text & Presentation, 2006

Stratos E. Constantinidis
Text Presentation 2006 Book PDF

Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455416

Get Book

Text & Presentation, 2006 by Stratos E. Constantinidis Pdf

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 30th annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Beckett, Brecht, Goethe, Tom Stoppard, dance performance, staged violence, the Comedie Francaise, and Greek and Japanese drama. Reviews of selected books are also included.