Julia Jarcho

Writing and the Modern Stage

Theater Beyond Drama

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781107132351
• ISBN-10: 1107132355
• Artikelnr.: 48012600

Autorenporträt

Julia Jarcho is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director with the company Minor Theater. She is Assistant Professor of English at New York University, where she teaches courses in modern drama, modernism, theater studies, critical theory and playwriting. New York productions include The Terrifying (2017), Every Angel is Brutal (2016), Nomads (2014), Grimly Handsome (OBIE Award for Best New American Play, 2013), Dreamless Land (2011) and American Treasure (2009). Her scholarly work has been published in Modern Drama and Critical Inquiry. Her plays have been published in a collection entitled Minor Theater (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Modernism's Negative Theatrics: 1. Introduction: negative
theatrics; 2. 'Something stranger yet': theatrical distractions in Henry
James and Gertrude Stein; 3. 'Gesture towards the universe': theater as
utopia in Waiting for Godot; Part II. Beyond the Present: Playwrights at
the Turn of the Millennium: 4. Introduction: staging writing today; 5. The
promise of 'playwriting': Suzan-Lori Parks; 6. 'Small, fierce creatures':
Mac Wellman's auratic theater.