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Performing Arts

Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre

Day Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...

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mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays

Dante Emma

ISBN: PB: 9780997228755, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against t...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Film, Music, Memory

Hoeckner Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...

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God Said This

Nanako Winkler Leah, Akhtar Ayad

ISBN: PB: 9780300243635, Yale University Press, October 2019
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

This is the first Yale Drama Series winner chosen by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, who describes the play as conveying a deeply felt sense of the universal – of the perfection of our parents' flawed love for each other and for us; fo...

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The German List

Three Plays "Rechnitz", "The Merchant's Contracts", "Charges (The Supplicants)"

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB: 9780857427120, Seagull Books, October 2019
480 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...

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In Performance

Citizens of Tokyo Six Plays

Hirata Oriza

ISBN: PB: 9780857425515, Seagull Books, September 2019
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Citizens of Tokyo" is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," pr...

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In Performance

Everything and Other Performance Texts from Germany

Cornish Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780857426123, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In "Everything: And Other Performance Texts from Germany", Matt Cornish gathers texts drawn from performances by five of the most renowned theater collectives working today: andcompany&Co., Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, She She Pop, and Showcase Beat...

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The German List

Holderlin A Play in Two Acts

Weiss Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780857427137, Seagull Books, September 2019
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The work of German poet Frederich Holderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and e...

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The German List

Three Plays "Philoctetes", "The Horatian", "Mauser"

Muller Heiner

ISBN: PB: 9780857427083, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-1995) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting...

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Sentence to Hope A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader

Wannous Sa'dallah, Myers Robert, Saab Nada

ISBN: HB: 9780300221343, Yale University Press, May 2019
464 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This first English-language collection brings together his major plays and essays. Selections include t...

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