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The Theater of Terrence McNally - Something about Grace (Paperback)
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The Theater of Terrence McNally - Something about Grace (Paperback)
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Terrence McNally's canon of plays, books for musicals and opera
libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity
of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his
accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to identify
the four major stages of McNally's development in terms of his
understanding of how theater helps the modern person trapped in a
seemingly profane existence to find a gateway to the transcendent.
Drawing upon such diverse religious thinkers as Martin Buber,
Mircea Eliade, Ilia Delio and Carter Heyward, Frontain analyzes the
evolution of McNally's understanding of grace, not as a gift
bestowed by an all-powerful deity upon a desperate soul, but as the
unwarranted-and, thus, all the more unusual-"act of devotion"
(McNally's phrase) that one person performs for another. By seeking
to foment community, most importantly at the height of the AIDS
pandemic, McNally's theater itself proves to be a channel of grace.
McNally's greatest success is shown to be the creation of a theater
of empathy and compassion in contradistinction to Artaud's "theater
of cruelty" and Albee's Americanization of the theater of the
absurd.
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