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Grasses Of A Thousand Colors
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Author : Wallace Shawn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Grasses Of A Thousand Colors written by Wallace Shawn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
The first full-length play in more than ten-years by acclaimed writer/actor Wallace Shawn.
Grasses Of A Thousand Colors
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Author : Wallace Shawn
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date : 2014-03-03
Grasses Of A Thousand Colors written by Wallace Shawn and has been published by Theatre Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with Drama categories.
"Brilliantly upsetting and endearing . . . riveting."—Newsday An updated and revised edition of Wallace Shawn's most outlandish work to date. This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction, raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility. Grasses of a Thousand Colors is a troubling, erotic adventure that received high critical praise for its first New York City revival in 2013, starring Shawn. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His often politically charged and controversial plays include The Fever, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Marie and Bruce, and The Designated Mourner. With Andre´ Gregory, he co-wrote My Dinner with Andre´, in which he also starred.
Grasses Of A Thousand Colours
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Author : Wallace Shawn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Grasses Of A Thousand Colours written by Wallace Shawn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
"The scientist who tinkered with the universe tells us of his many loves. As his self-obsession literally consumes him, we listen to tales of food, sex and man's true best friend. This is an extreme, disturbing, and funny vision of the embattled relationship between man and beast. Wallace Shawn's new play receives its world premiere at the Royal Court, under the direction of his lifelong collaborator and "My Dinner with Andre" co-star, Andre Gregory. Wallace Shawn features in the cast." --Book Jacket.
Dramatic Revisions Of Myths Fairy Tales And Legends
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Author : Verna A. Foster
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Dramatic Revisions Of Myths Fairy Tales And Legends written by Verna A. Foster and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures, including Greek, West African, North American, Japanese, and various parts of Europe. The dramatists discussed range from well-established playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, and Timberlake Wertenbaker to new theatrical stars such as Sarah Ruhl and Tarell Alvin McCraney. The book contributes to the current discussion of adaptation theory by examining the different ways, and for what purposes, plays revise mythic stories and characters. The essays contribute to studies of literary uses of myth by focusing on how recent dramatists have used myths, fairy tales and legends to address contemporary concerns, especially changing representations of women and the politics of gender relations but also topics such as damage to the environment and political violence.
Waste
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Author : Jessica Rizzo
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2020
Waste written by Jessica Rizzo and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human-driven events signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders the question of anthropocentric obligations moot.Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human's perverse relationship to its finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, and not spend, their time. JESSICA RIZZO is an American writer, director, and dramaturge. She holds a DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, where she served as Associate Editor of Theater magazine and was awarded the John W. Gassner Prize for Criticism. She has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Yale College, and Bryn Mawr College. In 2017, she directed the North American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Shadow: Eurydice Says in New York City. She has also worked at the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, and has had her work presented as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Her writing has appeared in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, TheaterForum, Theatre Journal, Theater, TDR, Austrian Studies, the Theatre Times, Vice, Momus, LA's Cultural Weekly, Philadelphia's Broad Street Review and ArtBlog, and Romania's Scena.ro.
Night Thoughts
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Author : Wallace Shawn
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2017-05-22
Night Thoughts written by Wallace Shawn and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with Literary Collections categories.
This “acerbic yet compassionate” meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers “curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky. In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky—himself included—to task for their complacency while offering fascinating reflections on “civilization, morality, Beethoven, 11th-century Japanese court poetry, and his hopes for a better world, among other topics” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Age Of Dystopia
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Author : Louisa MacKay Demerjian
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-29
The Age Of Dystopia written by Louisa MacKay Demerjian and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with Dystopian films categories.
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes on the individual and society as a whole. Dystopia, as a genre, reflects our greatest fears of what the future might bring, based on analysis of the present. This book connects traditional dystopian works with their contexts and compares these with contemporary versions. It centers around two main questions: Why is dystopia so popular now? And, why is dystopia so popular with young adult audiences? Since dystopia reflects the fears of society as a whole, this book will have broad appeal for any reader, and will be particularly useful to teachers in a variety of settings, such as in a high school or college-level classroom to teach dystopian literature, or in a comparative literature classroom to show how the genre has appeared in multiple locales at different times. Indeed, the book’s interdisciplinary nature allows it to be of use in classes focussing on politics, bioethics, privacy issues, women’s studies, and any number of additional topics.
Joy Ride
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Author : John Lahr
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Joy Ride written by John Lahr and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York's senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams 'By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read' Arthur Miller 'Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the act of dramatic creation' Daily Mail 'A wonderful celebration of theatre, filled with insights' Guardian 'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tony Kushner and August Wilson, through the work of directors like Nicholas Hytner and Ingmar Bergman, to Shakespeare himself, the depth of Lahr's understanding is plain to see and extraordinary to read. He brings the reader up close and personal to the artists and their art. Whether you are a regular theatre-goer, or just starting out, Lahr's book delights as both a celebration and a guide.
The American Play
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Author : Marc Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-26
The American Play written by Marc Robinson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.
Twenty First Century Drama
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Author : Siân Adiseshiah
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Twenty First Century Drama written by Siân Adiseshiah and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.