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Russia, freaks and foreigners : three performance texts / James MacDonald.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 2008 until 2008. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonald, James, 1949-
- Series:
- Playtext
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian drama.
- Russian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who is cerebral palsied, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority, offering various models of difference - physical, cultural and moral - and their stories of dislocation. Their themes, contextualized here by companion essays, expand the boundaries of British drama and connect to the comic grotesque tradition by giving the 'abnormal' a broad appeal. To date,
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Texts; Bread and Circus Freaks; The Sweetheart Zone; Emigrés; Part Two: Essays; Getting to Know James MacDonald; Director's Notes; Freaks, Food and Fairy Tales: Confronting the Limits of Disability in Bread and Circus Freaks; Epilogue; Contributors; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-44210-0
- 9786611442101
- 1-4356-5326-2
- 1-84150-229-4
- OCLC:
- 437213635
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