Theater in a post-truth World : texts, politics, and Performance / [edited by] William C. Boles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boles, William C., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Class of 1894 Fund.

Series:

Methuen drama agitations: text, politics and performances

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--History--21st century.

Theater.

Theater and society.

Theater--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Methuen Drama, 2022.

Contents:

Introduction: Post-Truth: A Brief Introduction / William C. Boles (Rollins College, USA)

Part 1: Text. Chapter 1. Post-Truth but not Post-Race: The Repeating Realities of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 / (Heidi Bollinger, Hostos Community College, CUNY, USA ) ; Chapter 2. Knowing Not What It "Seems": Re-viewing Caryl Churchill's Post-Truth World in Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, and Imp / Mamata Sengupta (Islampur College, India)

Part 2: Politics. Chapter 3. The Alternative Realities of David Henry Hwang's Soft Power and Anne Washburn's Shipwreck / William C. Boles (Rollins College, USA) ; Chapter 4. Negotiating the Fifth Wall / Lynn Doboeck (University of Utah, USA) ; Chapter 5. When the Play is Not the Thing: The Mueller Report and the Limits of Documentary Drama / Victoria Scrimer (University of Maryland, USA)

Part 3: Performance. Chapter 6. Australian Biographical Theater on the Post-Truth Stage / Chris Hay and Stephen Carleton (University of Queensland, Australia) ; Chapter 7. Performing Reality: Tina Satter's Verbatim Staging of an FBI Transcript in Is This a Room / Helen Georgas (Brooklyn College, USA) ; Chapter 8. Seductive Frames: Digital Aesthetics in Kip Williams' Staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2018) / Susanne Thurow (University of New South Wales, Australia) ; Chapter 9. Satanic Panic: Performance in the New Culture War / Lewis Church (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350215887

1350215880

9781350215863

1350215864

Publisher Number:

99991263853

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.