A Search for a postmodern theater : interviews with contemporary playwrights

[interviewed by] John L. DiGaetani

33 leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses "postmodernism". This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights interviewed, becomes a point of departure for lively dialogue, providing insights into the particular playwrights and on contemporary theater in general. Included among the interviewees are farcists, such as Alan Ayckbourn, Tina Howe and Michael Frayn; playwrights of ethnic and black theater, such as Amlin Gray, Ed Bullins and August Wilson; embodiments of "Chekhovian" theater, such as Simon Gray and A.R. Gurney; "Maximalists" like David Henry Hwang; feminists like Marsha Norman and Timberlake Wertenbaker; exponents of gay theater like Mart Crowley and William Hoffman; social critics like David Storey and Israel Horovitz; and traditionlists like Horton Foote, Romulus Sinney and Robert Anderson. Despite these broadly applied labels, clearly the output of these playwrights cannot be neatly pigeonholed even individually - let alone collectively - to descirbe any prevailing mode. Therefore, interviewer DiGaetani has chosen to stay with the appellation "postmodernism", a widely accepted critical term in the arts used to signify a reaction to what is now an old-fashioned "modernism".

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[目次]

  • Robert Anderson
  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Eric Bentley
  • Ed Bullins
  • Mart Crowley
  • Jules Feiffer
  • Horton Foote
  • Michael Frayn
  • Larry Gelbart
  • Amlin Gray
  • Simon Gray
  • John Guare
  • A.R. Gurney
  • Christopher Hampton
  • William Hoffman
  • Israel Horovitz
  • Tina Howe
  • David Henry Hwang
  • Albert Innaurato
  • Diavid Ives
  • Barrie Keeffe
  • Romulus Linney
  • Craig Lucas
  • Terrence McNally
  • Adrian Mitchell
  • Richard Nelson
  • Marsha Norman
  • Eric Overmyer
  • David Storey
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker
  • August Wilson
  • Lanford Wilson
  • Paul Zindel.

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書名 A Search for a postmodern theater : interviews with contemporary playwrights
著作者等 DiGaetani, John Louis
DiGaetani John L.
シリーズ名 Contributions in drama and theatre studies
出版元 Greenwood Press
刊行年月 1991
ページ数 xv, 313 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0313273642
NCID BA14273264
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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