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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793968203321

Autore

Murphet Richard <1945->

Titolo

Acts of resistance in late-modernist theatre : writing and directing in contemporary theatre practice / / by Richard Murphet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden Boston : , : Brill | Rodopi, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-41588-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages)

Collana

Australian playwrights and Australian drama, theatre and performance, , 0921-2531 ; ; volume 18

Disciplina

792.02330922

Soggetti

Theater - Production and direction - Australia

Theater - Production and direction - United States

Theater - Political aspects - Australia

Theater - Political aspects - United States

Modernism (Literature) - Australia - History

Modernism (Literature) - United States - History

Theatrical producers and directors - Australia

Theatrical producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- Richard Foreman -- Jenny Kemp -- Richard Murphet -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre, Richard Murphet presents a close analysis of the theatre practice of two ground-breaking artists – Richard Foreman and Jenny Kemp – active over the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century. In addition, he tracks the development of a form of ‘epileptic’ writing over the course of his own career as writer/director. Murphet argues that these three auteurs have developed subversive alternatives to the previously dominant forms of dramatic realism in order to re-think the relationship between theatre and reality. They write and direct their own work, and their artistic experimentation is manifest in the tension created between their content and their form. Murphet investigates how the works are



made, rather than focusing upon an interpretation of their meaning. Through an examination of these artists, we gain a deeper understanding of a late modernist paradigm shift in theatre practice.