The Plays of Martin Crimp

Making Theatre Strange
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-29371-7
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and argues that their challenge to audiences derives from their 'making strange': producing theatrical innovation, thus rendering the familiar unfamiliar.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angelaki, Vicky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Reaching Beneath the Surface Urban Materialism and the Self as Commodity The Artist and the Industry of Mass Consumption (Un)Spoken Violence and Domestic Power Relations Urban Violence, Social Class, Political Transgressions Translating There and Then into Here and Now In Lieu of a Conclusion: Spectator as Character Appendix: Details of Original Staging for Plays, Adaptations, Translations and Versions by Martin Crimp Notes Selected Critical Sources on Martin Crimp Index

Über Autor(innen)

VICKY ANGELAKI is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK. She publishes on modern, recent and contemporary British and European theatre in relation to audience perception, spectatorship and citizenship, politics and aesthetics, as well as translation and adaptation within a broader cultural context.