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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess - The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer (Paperback)
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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess - The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer (Paperback)
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The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been
misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in
2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world
premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of
these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a
'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration,
chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now
gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that
successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic,
particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a
self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through
the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the
carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and
queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom
of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the
strange, the crazed, the queer'.
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