Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with American drama categories.
Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1998
Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
"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.
Dramatic Structure In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Robert Andreach
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Dramatic Structure In The Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert Andreach and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Drawing Upon The Past
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Drawing Upon The Past written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.
Contemporary American theatre re-creates and invokes classical theatre so as to generate interaction between the two theatres. Using selected works of fourteen playwrights, this book organizes the interaction into three sections: works dramatizing change and reconciliation, works dramatizing the inability or the unwillingness to change and reconcile, and works emphasizing various selves (personal, theatrical, national). By drawing on the past, the fourteen playwrights refine their art in the contemporary American theatre and their vision of contemporary American life.
Tragedy In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2014-07-16
Tragedy In The Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Contemporary American Drama
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Author : Annette Saddik
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-13
Contemporary American Drama written by Annette Saddik and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The War Against Naturalism In The Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The War Against Naturalism In The Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
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.
Contemporary American Theatre
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Author : Bruce King
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-19
Contemporary American Theatre written by Bruce King and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with Performing Arts categories.
Len Jenkin S Theatre
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Author : Robert J. Andreach
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2011
Len Jenkin S Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart. Imagination creates wonder by transforming nature to suggest more than nature. Love engages the heart on the quest to experience the wonder, for though Jenkin is an experimental playwright, his plays are not abstruse symbols. They are tales that take salesmen and actresses, historical figures and fictional characters, through a Stein landscape and a Kafka story, pop culture, and recreated scenes from the Bible and The Canterbury Tales, The Aeneid, and Headlong Hall to an amusement park ride and a penal colony, a flophouse and a garden. Bodacious verbal and visual images build in power until they soar as pilgrims tell tales to pass the night while waiting to cross the river; Hawthorne, Sophie, and Melville on the beach hear the ever-encroaching kraken; and Margo Veil essays the roles that all questing mortals play in life.
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
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Author : Philip C. Kolin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-07
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights written by Philip C. Kolin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-07 with Art categories.
In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.