Revolt/Compassion (eBook)

Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance

Michael Springate (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Guernica Editions (Verlag)
978-1-77183-397-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance, gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture an expansive range of interests and influences, and reflect the artistic interdisciplinarity which has been a defining feature of his career. Dr. Erin Hurley, in her ground-breaking introduction, writes: Consciously crafted, precise in their diction, and allusive in their references, these plays ask for the reader's collaboration ? Their poetry ? the considered arrangement of the words, the shape of the text on the page, the accretion of meaning across the play, its solicitation of the reader's increased awareness ? activates the senses without necessarily dictating where they should take me or what I should make of them. At the same time, the ideas unfolded require a different vantage, a theoretical engage

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2019
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-77183-397-1 / 1771833971
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77183-397-4 / 9781771833974