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The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
The Theater of Transformation
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wi...
Drama Trauma
In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays. The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include: * installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux, * plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka * performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana * stage, film and video productions of King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well that Ends Well.
The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre
Derived from The Cambridge guide to theatre_
Greenwich Village 1963
This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.
The Portals of Sparkling Falls
"An entertaining read for fans of science fiction …" —Kirkus Reviews Magazine What if you lost your memory and found yourself transported to a parallel world containing no electricity, no running water, and unkind villagers who keep dark secrets? Those questions become all too real for sixteen-year-old Laura who awakens in an unfamiliar house before an unknown force whisks her to a seemingly parallel Earth where the residents worship a sinister deity. Disoriented and confused, Laura does her best to fit in with the villagers of Sparkling Falls while desperately trying to regain her lost memories and find her way back home. When a little girl goes missing under bizarre circumstances, Laura and her newfound friends set out to find her. But someone doesn’t like Laura digging into the village’s mysterious past, and they’ll do anything to stop her from discovering the secret behind Sparkling Falls.
The Land Beyond the Portal
As Laura placed her left foot on the floor, something clicked and a low, humming vibration filled the room. Suddenly she was surrounded by an intense, blinding white light, and she was gone. It's a dark, snowy night when Laura awakens at the bottom of a staircase with a horrible headache and no idea how she got there. To make matters worse, she is alone in the house, snowed in by a blizzard, with no way to call for help. While exploring the house in a desperate attempt to trigger the return of her memory, she discovers a small room beneath the basement. She steps inside, and an unknown force instantly transports her to a mysterious, pastoral land. She finds a quaint village that at first glance seems like a peaceful place; but Laura soon learns that peace is merely an illusion. Why are terrible rumors circulating about the village's leader? Why do the villagers worship a sinister deity who bears no resemblance to her own powerful and loving God? Most importantly, will she ever remember who she is and find her way home? In her quest for answers, she uncovers a myriad of forbidden secrets that might keep her trapped inThe Land Beyond the Portal.
Hermaphropoetics, Drifting Geometries
Poetry. "In this new riveting long poem, Rochelle Owens shows herself once agan to be our mythographer par excellence, the inventor of the rich and strange. The germ of HERMAPHROPOETICS, DRIFTING GEOMETRIES seems to be a single photograph of 'A hermaphrodite / Captured after the siege...Seated on the stump of a tree.' But who or what is this mysterious figure 'staged and scripted from /a lost narrative'? Using ten interlocking geometric perspectives--from angle and circle to zigzag and zoom--Owens recreates her visionary tale again and again, each time making us question the previous version and arousing our longing to know more. In what siege did this man/woman participate? From where is she/he exiled and what agonies has this human spirit suffered and survived? The kaleidoscopic narrative, encompassing ceaseless struggle against the natural world as well as the full gamut of desire and defeat, is mesmerizing in its delicate repetitions and variations, the whole tale rendered in condensed and oblique linear units. This is a bravura performance by one of our most original and daring poets."--Marjorie Perloff
