Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre
Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, University of Aberystwyth, UK
This is a lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in contemporary drama, which blends information, analysis and anecdote and makes for entertaining and enlightening reading. Hugely influential innovators, household names, and a whole host of less familiar international figures - all have their lives and careers covered in clear and succinct entries. All professions associated with the theatre are represented here: actors and directors, playwrights and designers. The result offers a unique insight into the rich diversity of international drama today.
Published May 2000: 234 x 156: 360 pp:
Hb: 0-415-14161-3
Women's Intercultural Performance
Julie Holledge, Flinders University Australia and Joanne Tompkins, University of Queensland, Australia
In this study, Holledge and Tompkins raise questions about the relationship between politics and aesthetics, the transmission of culturally specific identity spaces, the sexually and culturally differentiated female body in performance, and the commodification of this body within the global marketplace. In analysing these questions, the book draws on material from the early years of the century to the 1990s and from the work of artists in many countries - Ghana, South Africa, Algeria, Iran, Great Britain, Argentina, Canada, Australia, China, Japan and Korea. While this study is still predicated on the existence of cultural and sexual borders, it acknowledges that these borders are constantly shifting.
Published June 2000: 216 x 138: 240 pp: illus. 14 b+w
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Performing
Blackness
Enactments of African-American Modernism
Kimberley W. Benston, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA
This is a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority.
Artists covered include Ntozake Shange, Ed Bullins, John Coltrane, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedv and Michael Harper.
Published May 2000: 234 x156: 400 pp: illus. 2 b+w
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Community
Theatre
Global Perspectives
Eugene van Erven, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Theatre is an important device for communities collectively to share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. Eugene van Erven, who is one of the world's foremost experts on Asian political theatre, has now put together the first comparative study of the work and methodological traditions which have developed in community theatres around the world. The wide ranging study is based on van Erven's own experiences working with community theatre groups in six, very different countries.
Together with a unique video record of van Erven's journev, specially produced to accompany the book, each chapter provides:
- a sociological impression of the relevant country
- a brief history of the community theatre there
- a guide to the country's overall arts scene
- background of the featured artists
- a case study of a specific community theatre project.
Published November 2000: 216 x 138: 272 pp
Hb: 0-415-19034
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A video entitled Community Theatre featuring unique footage accompanies this book.
UK PAL version 0-415-190320:
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A Casebook
Marilyn Elkins
The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this provides a thorough introduction to his work. It investigates such thematic, artistic, and ideological concerns as his use of the South and the black human body, as metaphors; his collaboration with Lloyd Richards; the influence of the blues, Baraka, Bearden, Barges, and Fugard on his work: his creative method; and his treatment of African American family life. Highlights include contributions from noted scholars and a recent interview with the playwright himself.
Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
2000: 216x140
Hb: 0-8153-0922-8: | Pb: 0-8153-3634-9:
Edited by Carol Martin and Henry Bial
Worlds of Performance
Pulished November 1999, 234 x 156: 256 pp
Hb: 0-415-20042-3 | Pb: 0-415-20043-1