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Theatre Writings

Name: Theatre Writings
Author: Ms. Bonnie Marranca
ISBN: 9780933826687

by Ms. Bonnie Marranca

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Overview

A collection of eighteen essays articulating a contemporary poetics of text and performance against a background of American culture, Theatrewritings moves easily from avant-garde groups (Mabou Mines, The Wooster Group, Ontological-Hysteric Theater) to writers as diverse as Sam Shepard, Lee Breuer, and Lillian Hellman, and to popular singers such as Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland.

About the Author, Ms. Bonnie Marranca

Bonnie Marranca is co-editor of "Performing Arts Journal", as well as the author of "Ecologies of Theater" and "Theatrewritings", which received the George Jean Nathan Award; the editor of "American Dreams: The Imagination of Samp Shepard" and "The Theatre of Images".