French theatre today : the view from New York, Paris, and Avignon / / by Edward Baron Turk

• Autore: Turk Edward Baron
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.0944/0905; 792.09440905
• Soggetto topico: Theater - France - 21st century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- New York. Border-crossings -- Star power, Gallic style -- Three fresh voices -- From dialogue to parole -- Edgy and cool -- Paris. Great classics revisited -- Boulevard, experimental, and in-between -- Three prodigious artists -- Cultural diversity (I): ethnicities -- Cultural diversity (II): operas and circuses -- Avignon. A festival turns sixty -- Recap and coda : French theatre tomorrow.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City's ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month's sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage
• Titolo autorizzato: French theatre today
• ISBN: 1-58729-993-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811481703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in theatre history and culture.