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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology

Knopf Robert, Listengarten Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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Disabled Theater

Umathum Sandra, Wihstutz Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9783037345245, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
288 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 30 halftones

Celebrated as an outstanding conceptual dance piece on the one hand and harshly criticized for being a contemporary freak show on the other, "Disabled Theater" by Jerome Bel and Theater Hora polarizes the public. In either case, the production raises...

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New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater Play and Playtext

Mujica Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300109566, Yale University Press, February 2015
800 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full t...

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Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781611687033, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2015
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions – orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first ce...

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In Performance

Rechnitz, and The Merchant's Contracts

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857422255, Seagull Books, February 2015
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

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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Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Ross Janice, Garafola Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...

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New Adventures of Don Quixote

Ali Tariq

ISBN: HB: 9780857422095, Seagull Books, December 2014
200 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour plates

Tariq Ali's latest play, "The New Adventures of Don Quixote", can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes's masterwork. The central characters from the original novel, Don Quixote an...

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"How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and Other Plays

Visniec Matei

ISBN: PB: 9780857422200, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 halftones

Dramatist, poet, novelist, and journalist Matei Visniec, born in Romania and living in France since seeking political asylum in 1987, has been one of the most trenchant voices of Europe, condemning the atrocities of totalitarianism as well as excesse...

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Polonica

"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays

Laster Dominika

ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm

An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...

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