Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
John Durang
Author: Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Acting Jewish
Author: Henry BialPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472069088
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher Description
Eight Women of the American Stage
Author: Roy HarrisPublisher: Heinemann Drama
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A highly readable, informative book about the professional lives of some of the foremost actresses working in theatre and film today.
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Author: Helene P. FoleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520283872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.
Great Stars of American Stage
Author: Daniel BlumSlavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861
Author: Heather S. NathansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521870119
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.
The American Stage
Author: Ron EnglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521412384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.
The Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage
Author: Amanda GiguerePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078646187X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in academic circles, and few scholars have attempted to explore the mechanics of her playwriting. This text seeks to unpack the essentials of Reza's style and to explore each play as a component of Reza's theatrical oeuvre. The result is a fuller understanding of her theatrical poetics and her development as an artist.
Sex and War on the American Stage
Author: Emily KleinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135087725
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century
Author: John H. HouchinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America.