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This is the first collection of critical essays to appear about the
Wooster Group. Since the 1970s this groundbreaking, New York-based
performance company has led the way in crystallizing the conditions
of contemporary stage practice at the intersection of several
cultural and artistic traditions. As demonstrated by the assembled
critics, each of them an authority in the field, these traditions
extend into the past as well as into the future, through the
Wooster Group's impact on the latest generation of performance
artists. The company's consequent institutionalization is posited
and challenged in the essays constituting Part I of the collection.
Part II tackles the work-in-progress, mapping its idiomatic stage
vocabulary and providing case studies, ranging from Frank Dell's
The Temptation of St. Antony to To You, The Birdie! (Phedre). Part
III presents productions by kindred artists such as Elevator Repair
Service, the Builders Association, Cannon Company, and Richard
Maxwell. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, this collection
should prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the current
theatrical scene and its place in the wider institutional,
artistic, and historical contexts.
This book brings together essays on the Stratford Festival, on
Shakespeare in Quebec, and on Canadian dramatic adaptations of
Hamlet and Othello by Ric Knowles, one of Canada's leading drama
and theatre scholars. The essays discuss such major figures as
Robert Lepage, Ann Marie MacDonald, Djanet Sears, Michael O'Brien,
Ken Gass, Robin Phillips, Marco Micone, and Martine Beaulne. Taken
together they explore both the role that Canada has played in
contemporary understandings of Shakespeare, and the role that
Shakespeare has played in the constitution of postcolonial Canadian
subjectivity and nationhood.
This close study of selected plays by four of the greatest early
moderm playwrights, namely Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and O'Neill,
examines how these plays challenge long-standing traditions and
assumptions of nineteenth-century theatre and reas
The emergence of contemporary Australian and English-Canadian
multicultural drama undoubtedly constitutes a fascinating
development in the history of international literatures written in
English. These postcolonial plays offer ideal vantage points from
which to observe the struggle of two comparable Commonwealth
countries to accommodate the pluralism of their social fabric. As
the prominent theatre scholars of this collection congently argue,
the articulation of otherness forms a central concern in the drama
of these two countries. The postcolonial playwrights studied in
this book interpret marginality as an expression of resistance
against the legacy of Empire, often through the weapon of
subversive mimicry. The organising spatial metaphor of the book
suggests new readings of the « other as an evolving site of
contestation. This volume articulates a new form of comparative
poetics, in which dramatic texts are used as reflecting mirrors, as
privileged tools to explore the similarity and otherness that
Australia and Canada share.
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