This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this book engages audiences with new research on contemporary and classic drama, performance studies, scenic design and adaptation theory in nine scholarly essays, two event transcripts and six book reviews. This year's highlights include an interview with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and a roundtable discussion on the sixtieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.…mehr
This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this book engages audiences with new research on contemporary and classic drama, performance studies, scenic design and adaptation theory in nine scholarly essays, two event transcripts and six book reviews. This year's highlights include an interview with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and a roundtable discussion on the sixtieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Amy Muse is a professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has written a book on Sarah Ruhl as well as essays on drama, intimacy, and travel.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Baron Kelly) 5 A Raisin in the Sun at 60: A Conversation (Teresa Gilliams, Nathaniel G. Nesmith, Janna Segal, Baron Kelly and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) 27 Radical Resurrections: A Performance History of John Brown's Body (Victoria Lynn Scrimer) 49 Deep When: A Basic Design Philosophy for Addressing Holidays in Historical Dramas (Michael Schweikardt) 63 Uncanniness and Alienation in Lisa D'Amour's Detroit and Airline Highway (M. Scott Phillips) 78 Precious Resources: Cultural Archiving in the Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Mr. Burns and Station Eleven (Paul D. Reich) 96 Past the Lyrical: Mythographic Metatheatre in Marina Carr's Phaedra Backwards (Phillip Zapkin) 113 Infidelity, Adaptation, and Textuality: Directing Late Medieval and Early Modern French Farce (Scott D. Taylor) 130 Rectories Meet "One-Hour" Rooms: Williams on Summery and Eccentric Loves (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 148 A Portrait of the Krapp as a Young[er] Man: Michael Laurence's Krapp, 39 delete(William Hutchings) 161 Waiting for Rothko (Doug Phillips) 174 Review of Literature: Selected Books Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Doug Phillips) 189 Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero and Chantal Rodriguez, eds. Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater delete(Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon) 193 Lopamudra Basu. Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity (Mahwash Shoaib) 197 Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, eds. Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Patrick Midgley) 200 Selby Wynn Schwartz. The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (Alicia M. Goodman) 204 David Palmer, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Melissa Rynn Porterfield) 207 Index 211
Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Baron Kelly) 5 A Raisin in the Sun at 60: A Conversation (Teresa Gilliams, Nathaniel G. Nesmith, Janna Segal, Baron Kelly and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) 27 Radical Resurrections: A Performance History of John Brown's Body (Victoria Lynn Scrimer) 49 Deep When: A Basic Design Philosophy for Addressing Holidays in Historical Dramas (Michael Schweikardt) 63 Uncanniness and Alienation in Lisa D'Amour's Detroit and Airline Highway (M. Scott Phillips) 78 Precious Resources: Cultural Archiving in the Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Mr. Burns and Station Eleven (Paul D. Reich) 96 Past the Lyrical: Mythographic Metatheatre in Marina Carr's Phaedra Backwards (Phillip Zapkin) 113 Infidelity, Adaptation, and Textuality: Directing Late Medieval and Early Modern French Farce (Scott D. Taylor) 130 Rectories Meet "One-Hour" Rooms: Williams on Summery and Eccentric Loves (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 148 A Portrait of the Krapp as a Young[er] Man: Michael Laurence's Krapp, 39 delete(William Hutchings) 161 Waiting for Rothko (Doug Phillips) 174 Review of Literature: Selected Books Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Doug Phillips) 189 Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero and Chantal Rodriguez, eds. Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater delete(Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon) 193 Lopamudra Basu. Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity (Mahwash Shoaib) 197 Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, eds. Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Patrick Midgley) 200 Selby Wynn Schwartz. The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (Alicia M. Goodman) 204 David Palmer, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Melissa Rynn Porterfield) 207 Index 211
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