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The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams

Laura Michiels
The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams Book PDF

Author : Laura Michiels
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476642581

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The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams by Laura Michiels Pdf

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Williams' entire oeuvre: each play stages the process through which it came into being--and this process consists of a variation on repetition combined with transformation. Each chapter takes a detailed reading of one play and its variation on repetition and transformation. Specific topics include reproduction in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), mediation in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981), and how the playwright frequently recycled previous works of art, including his own.

The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams

Laura Michiels
The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams Book PDF

Author : Laura Michiels
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476666464

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The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams by Laura Michiels Pdf

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Williams' entire oeuvre: each play stages the process through which it came into being--and this process consists of a variation on repetition combined with transformation. Each chapter takes a detailed reading of one play and its variation on repetition and transformation. Specific topics include reproduction in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), mediation in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981), and how the playwright frequently recycled previous works of art, including his own.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811204170

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.

Tennessee Williams 101

Augustin J Correro
Tennessee Williams 101 Book PDF

Author : Augustin J Correro
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781455625352

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Tennessee Williams 101 by Augustin J Correro Pdf

Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: 27 wagons full of cotton and other short plays

Tennessee Williams
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams 27 wagons full of cotton and other short plays Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New York : New Directions
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015003629998

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: 27 wagons full of cotton and other short plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Brenda Murphy
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Book PDF

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780930251

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Brenda Murphy Pdf

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a stimulating analysis of the work of this giant of twentieth century American theatre whose work remains central to curriculums and theatre repertoires. It combines an analysis of all of his work by American scholar Brenda Murphy with interviews and a number of criticial essays.

Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage

Rebecca Clode
Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Clode
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000600667

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Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage by Rebecca Clode Pdf

This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing scholarly arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, this book deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews, and reflections gained from observing rehearsals. Focusing on four plays and their Australian productions, the book uses these examples to showcase how metatheatre has been utilised to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. It highlights metatheatre’s vital place in Australian dramatic and theatrical history and connects this Australian tradition to wider concepts in the development of contemporary theatre. This illuminating text will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian theatre (historic and contemporary) as well as those researching and studying drama and theatre studies more broadly.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
The Magic Tower and Other One act Plays Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811219208

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The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally Pdf

This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan

Brenda Murphy
Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan Book PDF

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521400953

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Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan by Brenda Murphy Pdf

This is a book-length study of the intense creative relationship between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan.

Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays

Tennessee Williams
Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811226370

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Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time. Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of never-before-published one-acts includes some of his most poignant and hilarious characters: the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens...; the strange little man behind the nom de plume Mister Paradise; and the extravagant mistress who cheats on her married man in The Pink Bedroom. Most were written in the 1930s and early 1940s when Williams was already flexing his theatrical imagination. Chosen from over seventy unpublished one-acts, these are some of Williams's finest; several have premiered recently at The Hartford Stage Co., The Kennedy Center, the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Included in this volume: These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch Mister Paradise The Palooka Escape Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily? Summer At the Lake The Big Game The Pink Bedroom The Fat Man's Wife Thank You, Kind Spirit The Municipal Abattoir Adam and Eve on a Ferry And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... Long associated with Williams, acclaimed stage and film actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson provide a fresh and challenging foreword for actors, directors, and readers.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Clothes for a summer hotel. The red devil battery sign

Tennessee Williams
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vieux Carr A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Clothes for a summer hotel The red devil battery sign Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811212017

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Clothes for a summer hotel. The red devil battery sign by Tennessee Williams Pdf

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams's full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams's collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperback, Volume 8 adds to the series four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams's life.

Stairs to the Roof

Tennessee Williams
Stairs to the Roof Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811225632

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Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams Pdf

A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades. Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams wrote a play looking toward the year 2001. Stairs to the Roof is a rare and different Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, an experiment in meta-theater, with a touch of early science fiction. Tennessee Williams called Stairs to the Roof "a prayer for the wild of heart who are kept in cages" and dedicated it to "all the little wage earners of the world." It reflects the would-be poet's "season in hell" during the Depression when he had to quit college to type orders eight hours a day at the International Shoe Factory in St. Louis. Stairs is Williams' revenge, expressed through his alter ego, Benjamin Murphy, the clerk who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock, the monotony of his eight-to-five job, and all the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized and commercial society. Ben's swift-moving series of fantastic adventures culminate in an escape from the ordinary that is an endorsement of the American dream. In 1941 with the world at war and civilization in danger of collapse, Williams dared to imagine a utopian future as Ben leads us up his stairs towards the Millennium. Stairs to the Roof was produced only twice, once at the Playbox in Pasadena, California, in 1945, and subsequently at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947. Now, in an edition meticulously prepared by noted Williams scholar Allean Hale, Williams fans can share this play of youthful optimism.

Tenn Years

David Kaplan
Tenn Years Book PDF

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Hansen Publishing Group LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781601824271

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Tenn Years by David Kaplan Pdf

The essays in this volume were all written by David Kaplan in conjunction with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, of which he is the curator and a co-founder. They are organized in two sections. The first section consists of ten essays written for each year of the Provincetown Festival, most included in the Festival catalogue for the year indicated. Those essays focus on each year’s thematic selection of Williams plays—and other dance, music, and theater events—as well as some aspect of Williams’ plays not always obvious in the text but essential to understanding the plays in production. The second section includes seven occasional essays, written for productions of Williams plays associated with the Festival. All the essays relate, in one way or another, to the story of what happened to the playwright during the last twenty years of his life and how his reputation is evolving since his death.

Costly Performances

Bruce Smith
Costly Performances Book PDF

Author : Bruce Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 9780595137572

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Costly Performances by Bruce Smith Pdf

Memoir of the Last Days of productions on the World's Greatest playwright, Tennessee Williams.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The two-character play

Tennessee Williams
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams The two character play Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American drama
ISBN : LCCN:90005998

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The two-character play by Tennessee Williams Pdf

The theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams' full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams' collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperbook, Volume 8 adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life. The text used for each play was corrected and revised by the playwright in preparation for publication, or, in the case of the posthumously published Red Devil battery sign, makes use of his last known revision.