Author: Jon D. Rossini
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: theater, americas, ethnicity, wrighting, contemporary, latina
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-17
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0809328305
ISBN-13: 9780809328307
In "Contemporary Latina/o Theater", Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Pinero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, Jose Rivera, and Cherrie Moraga. Rossini exposes how these writers use the genre as a tool to reveal and transform existing preconceptions about their culture. Through "wrighting" - the triplicate process of writing plays, righting misconceptions about ethnic identity, and creating an entirely new way of understanding Latina/o cul
Author: Leonard Pronko
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: theater, total, perspectives, west, east
Published: 1967-06
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0520026225
ISBN-13: 9780520026223
Author: Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, performance, text, theory, israel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-05-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0472106074
ISBN-13: 9780472106073
The first volume of its kind in English or Hebrew, Theater in Israel gathers original essays, interviews, and commentaries by leading international theater practitioners and critics. The book explores the rich history and diversity of Israel’s theater and illustrates the ways in which this politically committed theater mirrors the historical and cultural forces that have shaped Israeli-Arab relations, the events in the Middle East, and the post-Holocaust Jewish experience. The collection provides a thorough and engaging survey of the playwrights, directors, actors, and productions that c
Author: David 0 Bradby
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, performance, text, vinaver, michel, theory
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1993-08-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0472103261
ISBN-13: 9780472103263
The first book-length study in English of contemporary French playwright Michel Vinaver
Authors:Elinor Fuchs, Una Chaudhuri,
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: theater, performance, text, theory, land, scape
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0472067206
ISBN-13: 9780472067206
Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater’s increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the "landscape dramaturgy" of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud’s trip to the Sierra Madre,Gertrude Stein’s landscape theory and practice, Guillermo Gomez-Peña’s "border subjects," and Bayreuth and Disneyland as cultic sites, Land/Scape/Theater draws on a broad range of theory, dramatic texts, and performance. All aspects of modern theater, the
Author: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, text, performance, theory, brecht, epic, british
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0472084089
ISBN-13: 9780472084081
After Brecht: British Epic Theater is the first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in the light of the influence of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Focusing on the work of Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Trevor Griffiths, and John McGrath, the book examines Brechtian techniques and style within the work of each playwright, while highlighting the divergent development of each.The book has been enriched by the author’s in-depth conversations with the playwrights. The topics covered include contemporary politics and the theater, the National Theatre
Authors:Jeanne Colleran, Jenny S. Spencer,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, theory, performance, text, political, resistance, essays, staging
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472066714
ISBN-13: 9780472066711
Staging Resistance interrogates political performance in a variety of cultural and national contexts. The book’s essays examine work by artists ranging from the Bread and Puppet Theatre to Théatre du Soleil to Athol Fugard to lesser-known grassroots organizations across the globe. The contributors’ broad survey of work, as varied as the contexts in which it occurs, indicates that older paradigms for the study of political theater may no longer be viable. As the essays show, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and political assumptions must be actively and self-consciously neg
