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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bradby, David (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Jean Genet [Texte imprimé] / David Bradby and Clare Finburgh
Publication : Abington, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 214 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection : Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists
Lien à la collection : Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists
Comprend : pt. 1. ; Life, politics and play-texts --1 ; Life and politics --2 ; Key early plays:
; The maids, ; Deathwatch, ; Splendid's3 ; Key late plays: ; The balcony, ; The blacks,
; The screens --part II: -- ; Key productions -- ; Key productions and issues surrounding
production: ; The maids, ; Deathwatch -- ; Key productions and issues surrounding
production: ; The balcony, ; The blacks -- ; Key productions and issues surrounding
production: ; The screens.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding
twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text in English
to Genet's plays in production, offers an overview of this influential and controversial
writer whose work prefigures many recent postmodern and post-colonial developments
in theatre and performance studies. The volume offers clear discussions of Genet's
plays, detailing philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic considerations,
in order to render the complexity of his theatre exhilarating, rather than intimidating.
These concise and accessible presentations included in the book's first half, provide
a starting point from which then to explore ways in which different directors, designers
and actors have approached Genet's theatre. Genet's plays have been staged many hundreds
of times over the past sixty years, from Paris to Tokyo, from London to São Paulo.
The book includes a spectrum of productions - over 30, from 1947 to 2007 - to illustrate
the sheer range of theatrical styles that Genet's texts inspire. Reflecting not only
on key plays and productions from the French playwright but on his early life and
later political activism, David Bradby and Clare Finburgh provide a comprehensive
account of a playwright and theorist whose plays caused rioting in his native country,
and whose writing both for and beyond the theatre demonstrate a new approach to the
relationships between art and life"--
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Finburgh, Clare (1969-....). Collaborateur
Sujet(s) : Genet, Jean (1910-1986) -- Critique et interprétation
Genet, Jean (1910-1986) -- Mise en scène
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415375047 (hardback). - ISBN 0415375045 (hardback). - ISBN 9780415375061
(paperback). - ISBN 0415375061 (paperback). - ISBN 9780203098912 (ebook). - ISBN 0203098919
(ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42757018r
Notice n° :
FRBNF42757018
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
