Utopia : Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Claire.

Series:

Playtext Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Political aspects.

Political plays--History and criticism.

Theater--Political aspects.

Local Subjects:

Performing arts--Political aspects.

Political plays--History and criticism.

Theater--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Other Title:

Playtext Series

Utopia

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as uncertain as the maps this man and this woman draw. A co-founder of the legendary 1980s performance theatre company Impact Theatre Co-op, Claire MacDonald composed Utopia, a sequence of commissioned playtexts, between 1987 and 2008. This edition brings together both the plays and the story of how the play

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Quotes; Acknowledgements; Written Worlds; Part One; You Did Not Know Who You Were; An Imitation of Life; Storm from Paradise; Part Two; Correspondences; Correspondence; The Writer in the Room: A Conversation; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78320-463-X