Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century

Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44951-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Durham, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Context for Ruhl and her Contemporaries 1. Educating Sarah Ruhl 2. Emotional Journeys 3. Caring Labor 4. Theatrical Devotion 5. Mobile Lines 6. Natural Forces Epilogue: 'The Curtain Goes Up'

Über Autor(innen)

Leslie Atkins Durham is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Boise State University, USA. Her previous books are Staging Gertrude Stein: Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of the American Alternative Theatre and Theatre Lives: An Introduction to Theatre (co-authored with Sally Shedd).