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Theater of the avant-garde, 1950-2000 : a critical anthology / edited by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--20th century.
- Drama.
- Experimental drama--History and criticism.
- Experimental drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (565 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Features a collection of significant avant-garde plays from around the world, along with essays that explore the evolution, objectives, and concerns facing the art form during the second half of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Language and Silence
- Act Without Words I
- Rhoda in Potatoland: (Her Fall-Starts)
- Terminal Hip
- "Lecture on Nothing"
- "How To Write A Play (in Which I Am Really Telling Myself How, but If You Are the Right One I Am Telling You How, Too)"
- "Figure of Speech: An Interview with Mac Wellman"
- 2. The Ritualistic
- The Brig
- Body Beautiful
- The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
- "Directing The Brig"
- "The Maids" from Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
- "The Theatre's New Testament: Interview with Jerzy Grotowski"
- 3. Disruption
- Offending the Audience
- Birth Rate
- We Keep Our Victims Ready
- "Text and Performance: Envisioning Rózewicz's Birth Rate"
- "With The Bread and Puppet Theatre: An Interview with Peter Schumann"
- 4. Camp
- Turds in Hell
- Loretta Strong
- "Notes on 'Camp'"
- "Camp"
- 5. Landscape
- The Night Time Sky
- Portrait of Dora
- The Dead Class
- Explosion of a Memory/Description of a Picture
- Vienna: Lusthaus
- "The New Theatre"
- "On Theatre: An Interview with Hélène Cixous"
- "The Theatre of Death"
- "Dove and Samurai" and "A Letter to Robert Wilson"
- 6. Terror
- Stripped
- The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
- Far Away
- "Notes on the Theatre of Cruelty"
- Excerpts from "Violence-Death-Theatre: An Interview with Reza Abdoh"
- "Terror, Disorientation and Difficulty"
- General Bibliography
- Select Bibliography
- Select Media Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-17619-8
- OCLC:
- 957127438
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