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Disaster capitalism, or, Money can't buy you love : three plays / by Rick Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Rick.
- Series:
- Playtext series.
- Playtext series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama.
- Financial crises--Drama.
- Financial crises.
- Apocalypse in the theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of ""natural"" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980's sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church). Placing the plays within an historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls ""Apocalypse Theatre for the Twenty-First Century.""
- Contents:
- Shadow anthropology
- Through the roof
- Celestial flesh.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-26506-0
- 9786613265067
- 1-84150-578-1
- OCLC:
- 751695472
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