| Description |
x, 224 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Drama and performance studies
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Drama and performance studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Modern after modernism: Rise and fall of the character named character -- Pattern over character : the modern mysterium -- Counter-stagings : Ibsen against the grain -- pt. 2. Theater after modernism: Signaling through the signs -- Another version of pastoral -- When bad girls play good theaters -- Theater as shopping -- Postmodernism and the scene of theater -- Reviews and articles 1979-1993 : reports from an emerging culture: Des McAnuff's Leave it to beaver is dead -- Richard Schechner's The balcony -- Andrei Serban's The marriage of Figaro -- Death of character -- Peter Sellars's The Count of Monte Cristo -- Robert Wilson's Alcestis -- Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group's The road to immortality (part three), Frank Dell's The temptation of Saint Antony -- JoAnne Akalaitis's Cymbeline -- On the AIDS quilt, The performance of mourning. |
| Subject |
Experimental theater.
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Experimental theater. |
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Theater -- United States -- Reviews.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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| Subject |
Experimental drama -- History and criticism.
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Experimental drama. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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| ISBN |
0253210089 pa alkaline paper |
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0253330386 cl alkaline paper |
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