Author: Janusz Głowacki
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810108691
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Janusz Glowacki's highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Eastern European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political and social power. The girls' reform school of Cinders, the Lower East Side tenement of Hunting Cockroaches, and the Norwegian court littered with bodies in Fortinbras Gets Drunk serve as backdrops for Glowacki's tragicomic explorations of the play within the play of contemporary existence.
Hunting Cockroaches and Other Plays
Author: Janusz Głowacki
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810108691
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Janusz Glowacki's highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Eastern European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political and social power. The girls' reform school of Cinders, the Lower East Side tenement of Hunting Cockroaches, and the Norwegian court littered with bodies in Fortinbras Gets Drunk serve as backdrops for Glowacki's tragicomic explorations of the play within the play of contemporary existence.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810108691
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Janusz Glowacki's highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Eastern European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political and social power. The girls' reform school of Cinders, the Lower East Side tenement of Hunting Cockroaches, and the Norwegian court littered with bodies in Fortinbras Gets Drunk serve as backdrops for Glowacki's tragicomic explorations of the play within the play of contemporary existence.
Hunting Cockroaches
Author: Janusz Głowacki
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690525
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A surreal comedy set in Manhattan's Lower East Side focusing on a Polish immigrant couple's difficulties in reconciling their past with their present.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690525
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A surreal comedy set in Manhattan's Lower East Side focusing on a Polish immigrant couple's difficulties in reconciling their past with their present.
Cockroach
Author: Marion Copeland
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891921
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891921
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990-1991
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831071
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831071
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States
Hunting Cockroaches
Author: Canadian Stage Theatre Archives (University of Guelph)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114042
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114042
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Hunting Cockroaches
Author: Janusz Głowacki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573670480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573670480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Staging Place
Author: Una Chaudhuri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Adapting Chekhov
Author: J. Douglas Clayton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415509696
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium, highlighting our epoch's need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination, adaptation can build upon and drive the audience's horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov's drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415509696
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation, from page to page, the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama, theatre, and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium, highlighting our epoch's need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards, pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination, adaptation can build upon and drive the audience's horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence, this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhov's drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance, to students of modern literatures and cultures, and to theatre practitioners worldwide.
The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
Author:
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description