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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Baker's Plays
Author: The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker
Author: Amy MusePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350319988
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur genius grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker's plays and other work. These include The Flick, John, The Antipodes, the Shirley Vermont plays, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Muse illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes and issues by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing them. Through close discussions of Baker's work, this book immerses readers in her use of everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by a foreword from Baker's former professor, playwright Mac Wellman, as well as essays by four scholars, Thomas Butler, Jeanmarie Higgins, Katherine Weiss, and Harrison Schmidt, this is a companionable guide for students of American literature and theatre studies, which deepens their knowledge and appreciation of Baker's dramatic invention. Muse argues that Baker is finely attuned to the language of the everyday: imperfect, halting, marked with unexpressed desires, banalities, and silence. Called antitheatrical, these plays draw us back to the essence of theatre: space, time, and story, sitting with others in real time, witnessing the dramatic in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Baker's revolution for the stage has been to slow it down and bring us all into the mystery and pleasure of attention.
Baker's Plays
Author: The Complete History of the Old Testament in Twenty Minutes
Author: Tom S LongPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874409154
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Drama
Author: Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: Sheldon CheneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Theatre Arts Monthly
Author: Captain Fantastic!
Author: Tim J. KellyPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874409864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Fortress
Author: Michael ScanlanPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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