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First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.
Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0929587537
First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.
Author : Alice Birch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1783197641
You are expected to behave... Use the right words Act appropriately Don't break the rules Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them. Winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2014.
Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0809080583
Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.
Author : David Hare
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571228720
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as his work has taken him from the travelling fringe to the National Theatre, from seasons on Broadway to performances in prisons, church halls and on bare floors. Since 1978, Hare has sought uniquely to address these and other questions in occasional lectures given both in Britain and abroad. Now, for the first time, these lectures are collected together with some of his more recent prose pieces about God, Iraq, Israel/Palestine and the privatisation of the railways. Bringing to the lectern the same wit, insight and gift for the essential for which his plays are known, Hare presents the distilled result of a lifetime's sustained thinking about art and politics. 'The foremost theatrical chronicler of contemporary British life.' New York Times 'Our best writer of contemporary drama.' Sunday Times
Author : James M. Mace
Publisher : James Mace
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059560420X
It has been three years since the wars against Arminius and the Cherusci. Gaius Silius, Legate of the Twentieth Legion, is concerned that the barbarians-though shattered by the war-may be stirring once again. He also seeks to confirm the rumors regarding Arminius' death. What Silius does not realize is that there is a new threat to the Empire, but it does not come from beyond the frontier; it is coming from within, where a disenchanted nobleman looks to sow the seeds of rebellion in Gaul. Legionary Artorius has greatly matured during his five years in the legions. He has become stronger in mind; his body growing even more powerful. Like the rest of the Legion, he is unaware of the shadow growing well within the Empire's borders, where a disaffected nobleman seeks to betray the Emperor Tiberius. A shadow looms; one that looks to envelope the province of Gaul as well as the Rhine legions. The year is A.D. 20.
Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9781902867038
Author : Rosemarie Buikema
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 1786614030
Centered around the relationship between art and political transformation. From Charlottë Bronte and Virginia Woolf, to Marlene van Niekerk and William Kentridge, artists and intellectuals have tried to address the question: How to deal with the legacy of exclusion and oppression? Via substantive works of art, this book examines some of the answers that have emerged to this question, to show how art can put into motion something new and how it can transform social and cultural relations in a sustainable way. In this way, art can function as an effective form of cultural critique. In the course of this book, a range of artworks are examined, through a postcolonial and feminist lens, in which revolt—both as a theme and as a medium-specific technique or/as critique —is made visible. Time and time again, revolt takes the form of a slow and thorough working through of the position of the individual in relation to her history and her contemporary geopolitical circumstances. It thus becomes evident that renewal and transformation in art and society are most successful when they proceed according to the method of self-reflexive cultural critique; when they do not present themselves as revolution, radical breaks with the past, but rather as processes of revolt in which knowledge of the past is investigated, complemented, corrected, and bent to a new collective will.
Author : Robert Sanford Brustein
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Robert Brustein's new book functions as a barometer of our current cultural climate. Never one to shy away from controversy, Brustein includes accounts of his celebrated debate with August Wilson over the issue of segregated casting; his spirited defense of the National Endowment for the Arts; his eloquent response to the impact of political correctness on the theatre and the university; and his forthright criticism of what he calls coercive philanthropy.
Author : Lopa Ghosh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9350294745
The manipulative-philanthropist ghost of a chairman's mother; a footless enchantress in Siberia who has mastered the art of lovemaking; Rita of the sexual politics lessons; the witchcraft-practising mother of a village prodigy who plots to ensnare the World's Richest Man; the trade union leader who wrung a promise of jeans and perfumed soap out of the factory bosses - these are but the supporting cast of the dystopian, compelling world that Revolt of the Fish Eaters brings alive. Set in a twilight zone of glass towers, elevators and late-stage capitalism, this is a collection of stories about the business world: recession-struck, and facing threats from rogue forces such as ghosts, lovers and communists.