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Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
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Hardcover. A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theatre: the story of a romantic attachment to theatre’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theatre—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theatre scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural ... Read more
Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theatre: the story of a romantic attachment to theatre’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theatre—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theatre scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119073
SKU
V9780472119073
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About Unknown
Nicholas Ridout is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
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