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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789755603321

Autore

Mitchell Rick

Titolo

Disaster capitalism, or, Money can't buy you love [[electronic resource] ] : three plays / / by Rick Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect, 2011

ISBN

1-283-26506-0

9786613265067

1-84150-578-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Playtext series

Disciplina

330.122

338.951

Soggetti

American drama

Financial crises

Apocalypse in the theater

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Shadow anthropology -- Through the roof -- Celestial flesh.

Sommario/riassunto

The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of ""natural"" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980's sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church). Placing the plays within an historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls ""Apocalypse Theatre for the Twenty-First Century.""