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Informationen zum Autor Julia Jarcho is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director with the company Minor Theater. She is Assistant Professor of English at New York University, where she teaches courses in modern drama, modernism, theater studies, critical theory and playwriting. New York productions include The Terrifying (2017), Every Angel is Brutal (2016), Nomads (2014), Grimly Handsome (OBIE Award for Best New American Play, 2013), Dreamless Land (2011) and American Treasure (2009). Her scholarly work has been published in Modern Drama and Critical Inquiry. Her plays have been published in a collection entitled Minor Theater (2016). Klappentext This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. Zusammenfassung With a focus on twentieth-century work! this book offers a new understanding of what text can do in theater. Written for scholars and students of modern drama! theater studies! modernist literature! and critical theory! it revises dominant views of Henry James! Gertrude Stein! Samuel Beckett! Theodor Adorno! and contemporary theater artists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Modernism's Negative Theatrics: 1. Introduction: negative theatrics; 2. 'Something stranger yet': theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein; 3. 'Gesture towards the universe': theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot; Part II. Beyond the Present: Playwrights at the Turn of the Millennium: 4. Introduction: staging writing today; 5. The promise of 'playwriting': Suzan-Lori Parks; 6. 'Small, fierce creatures': Mac Wellman's auratic theater.
