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| adam_text | Contents
Series
Preface
vi
Acknowledgements
vii
Chronology
xi
Introduction
ι
Chapter
ι
Experimental Innovations After the Second
World War
17
Chapter
2
Revisiting the American Dream
40
Chapter
3
African-American Theatre: Voices
from the Margins
72
Chapter
4 Avant-Garde
Theatre Groups:
Revolutions in Performance
108
Chapter
5
Postmodern Presentations: Questioning
Boundaries of Representation
129
Chapter
6
The Politics of Identity and Exclusion
151
Chapter
7
Fragmented Representations of American
Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War
174
Chapter
8
The
NEA
Four and Performance
Art: Making Visible the Invisible
190
Conclusion
207
Student Resources
212
Glossary
212
Guide to Further Reading
215
Index
222
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States
in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative
plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing
influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams,
Adrienne
Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna
Deavere
Smith, Karen
Finley
and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups.
Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since
1945,
and discusses
the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American
theatre from the
1
950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of
American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a
postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilises the notion of fixed
identity and questions the nature of reality.
Key Features
•
Examines the influence of international figures such as Aristotle,
Brecht,
Artaud
and Boal who are central to theatre as a discipline
•
Explores realistic and anti-realistic styles of American drama and their political
and social implications, along with key critical terms and movements
•
Places the complexity of contemporary American drama within its political,
sexual and ethnic contexts
•
Rare images from the La MaMa Archive/Ellen Stewart Private Collection
Annette J. Saddik is Associate Professor in the English Department at New York
City College of Technology (CUNY), where she specialises in twentieth-century
drama. Author of The Politics of Reputation: The
Crìtica!
Reception of Tennessee
Williams Later Plays
(1999),
her forthcoming book, The Travelling Companion and
Other Plays, is an edited collection of Williams unpublished later plays.
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Contents
Series
Preface
vi
Acknowledgements
vii
Chronology
xi
Introduction
ι
Chapter
ι
Experimental Innovations After the Second
World War
17
Chapter
2
Revisiting the American Dream
40
Chapter
3
African-American Theatre: Voices
from the Margins
72
Chapter
4 Avant-Garde
Theatre Groups:
Revolutions in Performance
108
Chapter
5
Postmodern Presentations: Questioning
Boundaries of Representation
129
Chapter
6
The Politics of Identity and Exclusion
151
Chapter
7
Fragmented Representations of American
Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War
174
Chapter
8
The
'NEA
Four' and Performance
Art: Making Visible the Invisible
190
Conclusion
207
Student Resources
212
Glossary
212
Guide to Further Reading
215
Index
222
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States
in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative
plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing
influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams,
Adrienne
Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna
Deavere
Smith, Karen
Finley
and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups.
Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since
1945,
and discusses
the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American
theatre from the
1
950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of
American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a
postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilises the notion of fixed
identity and questions the nature of reality.
Key Features
•
Examines the influence of international figures such as Aristotle,
Brecht,
Artaud
and Boal who are central to theatre as a discipline
•
Explores realistic and anti-realistic styles of American drama and their political
and social implications, along with key critical terms and movements
•
Places the complexity of contemporary American drama within its political,
sexual and ethnic contexts
•
Rare images from the La MaMa Archive/Ellen Stewart Private Collection
Annette J. Saddik is Associate Professor in the English Department at New York
City College of Technology (CUNY), where she specialises in twentieth-century
drama. Author of The Politics of Reputation: The
Crìtica!
Reception of Tennessee
Williams' Later Plays
(1999),
her forthcoming book, The Travelling Companion and
Other Plays, is an edited collection of Williams' unpublished later plays. |
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