Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
ISBN: 978-0-472-05363-6
Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that tiny plays (i.e., shorter than twenty minutes) deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck, F. T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores four episodes in the history of very short theater, all characterized by the self-conscious embrace of brevity. The story moves from the birth of the modernist microdrama in French little theaters in the 1880s, to the explicit worship of speed in Italian Futurist synthetic theater, to Samuel Beckett's often-misunderstood short plays, and finally to a range of contemporary playwrights whose long compilations of shorts offer a new take on momentary theater.
