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Staging Gertrude Stein
Leslie Durham
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Description for Staging Gertrude Stein
Hardback. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theatre, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage. Iconoclastic directors and production teams - including Virgil Thomson, the Living Theatre, the Judson Poets Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, the Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart, Frank Galati and Heiner Goebbels - have ardently roamed Stein's spare dramatic 'landscapes', but even these convention-defying artists had to fill some of her absences in order to bring the texts to life on stage. Inevitably contemporary culture infiltrates Stein's pristine topography via these extra-textual additions, transforming ... Read more
Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theatre, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage. Iconoclastic directors and production teams - including Virgil Thomson, the Living Theatre, the Judson Poets Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, the Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart, Frank Galati and Heiner Goebbels - have ardently roamed Stein's spare dramatic 'landscapes', but even these convention-defying artists had to fill some of her absences in order to bring the texts to life on stage. Inevitably contemporary culture infiltrates Stein's pristine topography via these extra-textual additions, transforming ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403969347
SKU
V9781403969347
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About Leslie Durham
LESLIE DURHAM is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Boise State University, USA.
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