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The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy

A Critical Study

By: Robert J. Andreach

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The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy

A Critical Study

By: Robert J. Andreach

The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of, e.g., Lanford Wilson, Foote, Machado, and McCraney are examined). Carson, Rabe, and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen, Berc, and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie, Havis, Rapp, and Hwang, among others, create New Forms. LaBute, Fierstein, and Nelson, among others, create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's Passion Play, which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America.

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McFarland

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0786492651

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9780786492657

John Guare’s Theatre

The Art of Connecting

By: Robert J. Andreach

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John Guare’s Theatre

The Art of Connecting

By: Robert J. Andreach

From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”

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160

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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144380391X

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9781443803915

Understanding Beth Henley

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Understanding Beth Henley

By: Robert J. Andreach

Beth Henley remains best known for 'Crimes of the Heart', a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made into a major motion picture. This introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work presents Henley's plays as a unified whole.

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220

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003639X

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9781570036392

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Wonder and Heart

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Len Jenkin's Theatre

Wonder and Heart

By: Robert J. Andreach

Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart. Imagination creates wonder by transforming nature to suggest more than nature. Love engages the heart on the quest to experience the wonder, for though Jenkin is an experimental playwright, his plays are not abstruse symbols. They are tales that take salesmen and actresses, historical figures and fictional characters, through a Stein landscape and a Kafka story, pop culture, and recreated scenes from the Bible and The Canterbury Tales, The Aeneid, and Headlong Hall to an amusement park ride and a penal colony, a flophouse and a garden. Bodacious verbal and visual images build in power until they soar as pilgrims tell tales to pass the night while waiting to cross the river; Hawthorne, Sophie, and Melville on the beach hear the ever-encroaching kraken; and Margo Veil essays the roles that all questing mortals play in life.

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University Press of America

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0761853235

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9780761853237

Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

By: Robert J. Andreach

This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.

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209

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University Press of America

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0761864016

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9780761864011

Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre

By: Robert J. Andreach

Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.

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SIU Press

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0809321785

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9780809321780

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Wonder and Heart

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Wonder and Heart

By: Robert J. Andreach

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Book's by Robert J. Andreach

The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy

The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy

John Guare’s Theatre

John Guare’s Theatre

Understanding Beth Henley

Understanding Beth Henley

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre

Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre

Len Jenkin's Theatre

Len Jenkin's Theatre

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