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Millennial stages : essays and reviews, 2001-2005 /

A major figure in the world of theatre as critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor, and producer, Robert Brustein offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. In this wise, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Brustein examines crucial issues rela...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part One. Positions and polemics. No time for comedy
  • The new relevance
  • Does theatre matter?
  • Maiming the messinger
  • Words on fire
  • The rebirth of political theatre: the God of Hell; democracy when dramaturgs ruled the Earth
  • Red and blue states of mind: The 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee; Terrorism. Part Two. Plays and productions. Varieties of histrionic experience: Medea; The resistible rise of Arturo Ui
  • Mind over material: The invention of love; Mnemonic
  • The Jew who buried Hitler: The producers
  • The Harrowing of Hell: In the penal colony; Hamlet; and Hamlet
  • Angels in Afghanistan: Homebody/Kabul
  • Goat song: The goat, or Who is Sylvia?
  • Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants
  • Prescient plays: Far away; A number
  • Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment
  • Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street
  • Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night
  • Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife
  • Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics
  • Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden
  • The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon
  • A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla
  • Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool
  • Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen
  • The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall
  • In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler
  • Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar
  • Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza
  • theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees)
  • Lear's lendings: King Lear.
  • Part Three. People and places. Marlon Brando: contempt for acting
  • Requiem for Jan. Kott
  • Pieter-Dirk Uys: the good hope of the cape
  • Theatre in Australia: the cultural cringe
  • Theatre in South Africa: fronting
  • MASS MOCa: a boom in the boonies
  • Hallie Flanagan David and the Federal Theatre: Hallie's Comet
  • Suzan-Lori Parks: Does race matter?
  • Kenneth Tynan and Peter Brook: the Cavalier and the Roundhead
  • Shakespeare in bloom: The two noble Kinsmen; Henry IV; As You Like It
  • George S. Kaufman: keeping company with Kaufman
  • Shakespeare's geography
  • Primo levi: the saved and the damned
  • The death of Arthur Miller
  • Richard Gilman: prisoner on the aisle
  • Laurence Olivier and Elia Kazan: the peer and the pariah.