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Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108419581
Introduces nine exciting and talented playwrights who have emerged in twenty-first century America, exploring issues of race, gender and society.
Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350127562
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are no longer with us: Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein. A new generation, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when the theatre itself, along with the society with which it engages, was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young Jean Lee and Quiara Alllegría Hudes – whose backgrounds reflect the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception. Drawing on primary sources, including the playwrights' own commentaries and notes, and contemporary reviews, Christopher Bigsby enters into a dialogue with plays which are as various as the individuals who generated them. An essential read for theatre scholars and students, Staging America is a sharp and landmark study of the contemporary American playwright.
Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350200921
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are no longer with us: Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein. A new generation, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when the theatre itself, along with the society with which it engages, was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young Jean Lee and Quiara Alllegría Hudes – whose backgrounds reflect the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception. Drawing on primary sources, including the playwrights' own commentaries and notes, and contemporary reviews, Christopher Bigsby enters into a dialogue with plays which are as various as the individuals who generated them. An essential read for theatre scholars and students, Staging America is a sharp and landmark study of the contemporary American playwright.
Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350340497
In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on their approach to writing and the business of developing a career. The writers studied come from a diverse range of racial, religious and immigrant backgrounds. Five of the seven are women. Together, they open doors on a changing theatre and a changing America, as ever concerned with identity, both personal and national. This is the third in a series of books which, together, have explored the work of twenty-four American playwrights who have emerged in the current century.
Author : L. Durham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137287113
Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.
Author : Stephen Marino,David Palmer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030372952
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre. The collection begins by exploring Miller in the context of 20th-century American drama. Chapters discuss Miller and Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, as well as thematic relationships between Miller’s ideas and the explosion of significant women and African American dramatists since the 1970s. Other essays focus more directly on interpretations of Miller’s individual works, not only plays but also essays and fiction, including a discussion of Death of a Salesman in China. The volume concludes by considering Miller and current cultural issues: his work for human rights, his depiction of American ideals of masculinity, and his anticipation of contemporary posthumanism.
Author : N. Pressley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137415189
Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.
Author : Alexander Scally,Melanie Coffey,John Joseph Enright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195381834X
Also featuring plays by Emma S. Rund, Dylan Kinnett, Barbara Bryan, Cameron Sheppard, Matt Brown, and Andre Thespies. With introduction by Shaun Vain (editor) In the first anthology of this series, Chicago and Baltimore playwrights share short plays written for the stage. Performance-ready new ideas, contained within insightful dialogue and monologues span, the pages of this anthology. Since America earned its title as "the melting pot" by most historians, Future Publishing House combines with playwrights and theatre artistry to create this unequivocally dynamic collection of work. As artists living with the freedom to create meaningful new work, the plays in this first volume inform the beginning of a millennia of performance art. Plays comment on universal themes: Emma Rund's characters in To Fix a Dinosaur deal with conditional forgiveness. The struggle of political power to overcome scientific knowledge comes through in John Joseph Enright's Starry Night. Women's liberation ideas are featured in Easy as Pie by Melania Coffey. Gentrification is discussed in poetic verse in Alexander Scally's Chalked. Jealousy, envy, and the future of humanity are addressed in Dylan Kinnett's Party Planet. A scene from a play by Cameron Sheppard is dramatic and biographic Some pieces in this anthology fall into symbolism, surrealism, and absurdism, such as Barbara Bryan's Leaving the Universe. Other plays are written as melodramas, such as Love, Lust, Lyrics & Stamps by Matt Brown and Andre Thespies. Cover design by Kiirstn Pagan.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521277175
Dr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.
Author : Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350024762
The Decades of Modern American Drama 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: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).
Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054350
Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521278961
The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.
Author : David Krasner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405120878
This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century. Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period. Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies. Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism. Gives readers a sense of the development of American drama over time.
Author : Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316430
Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.
Author : Christopher J. Wheatley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025195392
Represents the diversity and productivity of American drama since 1900. The careers of playwrights whose works achieved notable popularity as well as critical success are presented in some detail. Emphasis is placed on biography and a synthesis of the critical reception of authors' works.