Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) - Softcover

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Muse, John H.

 
9780472053636: Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472053639 ISBN 13: 9780472053636
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2017

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"In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principleand a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck, F. T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores four episodes in the history of very short theater, all characterized by the self-conscious embrace of brevity. The story moves from the birth of the modernist microdrama in French little theaters in the 1880s, to the explicit worship of speed in Italian Futurist synthetic theater, to Samuel Beckett's often-misunderstood short plays, and finally to a range of contemporary playwrights whose long compilations of shorts offer a new take on momentary theater. Subjecting short plays to extended scrutiny upends assumptions about brief or minimal art, and about theatrical experience. The book shows that short performances often demand greater attention from audiences than plays that unfold more predictably. Microdramas put pressure on preconceptions about which aspects of theater might be fundamentaland about what might qualify as an event.In the process, they suggest answers to crucial questions about time, spectatorship, and significance"--

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John H. Muse is Assistant Professor in English and Theater & Performance Studies, University of Chicago.


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UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472053639
ISBN 13 
9780472053636
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ISBN 10:  047207363X ISBN 13:  9780472073634
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 2017
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