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The death of character: perspectives on theater after modernism

Book information

Publisher
Indiana Univ. Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0253330386, 9780253210081, 0253210089, 9780253330383
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13929051 bytes)
Series
Drama and performance studies
Edition
Nachdr.
Pages
x, 224 Seiten 24 cm\238
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

IntroductionPart I: Modern Retrospect1. Character: Its Rise and Fall2. The Mysterium and the Re-Allegorization of Modern Drama3. Reading Against the GrainPart II: Theater After Modernism4. Signalling Through the Signs: Thinking Theater After Derrida5. Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral6. Staging the Obscene Body7. Theater as Shopping8. Postmodernism and the "Scene" of TheaterReviews and Articles 1979-1993: Accounts of an Emerging Aesthetic 1979 Des McAnuff's Leave it to Beaver is Dead Richard Schechner's The Balcony 1982 Andrei Serban's The Marriage of Figaro 1983 The Death of Character 1985 Peter Sellars's The Count of Monte Cristo 1986 Robert Wilson's Alcestis 1988 Elizabeth LeCompte and The Wooster Group's Frank Dell's The Temptation of Saint Antony 1989 Misunderstanding Postmodernism: Joanne Akalaitis's Cymbeline 1993 The AIDS Quilt and The Performance of Mourning

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