Signs of Life: Six Comedies of Menace - Softcover

Schenkar, Joan M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819563234 ISBN 13: 9780819563231

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1998

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Book by Schenkar Joan M

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Críticas:

"Dazzling disruptions of the language. Schenkar's comic instincts are splendidly liberating: her passion is spoken subtext, catching characters in the dark middle of their debased imaginations." --Village Voice "The hysterical humour and macabre logic of a nightmare crossed with a comic strip. A distinctly unenglish, horrifying, funny, and very very weird evening."--Lyn Gardner, City Limits (London) "Schenkar, a relentless intellect, has stayed true to her dark vision, her 'comedy of menace.' She is writing challenging, provocative plays and is giving no quarter to easy answers or mass popularity."--Seattle Post Intelligencer

Reseña del editor:

Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America's most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as "comedies of menace." Bristling with wit and intelligence, the collection features Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, The Universal Wolf, Burning Desires, The Last of Hitler, and Fulfilling Koch's Postulate. These plays explore issues of feminism and gender politics, history and memory, sexuality and violence, bringing to life such figures as Gertrude Stein and Marlene Dietrich, Hitler and Eva Braun, P. T. Barnum and Henry and Alice James, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Schenkar's charged language and evocative stage directions invite the reader to become both performer and audience, and the experience is enhanced both by richly evocative stage directions and illustrations from productions of the plays. Initially written to be read like novels as well as staged, the plays provide a unique theatrical experience, an experience that can only be accessed by laughter.

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0819563234
• ISBN 13: 9780819563231
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 302