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Playing for Time: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre

By Geraldine Cousin

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0719061970, 9780719061974
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
663 kB (678996 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
208\186
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-12-02 20:07:57
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Description

Playing for Time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions. The diversity of the texts that are examined is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and Priestley.

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