Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

This book uses a clear and accessible voice to situate Maxwell's work within the context of contemporary American culture and international theatre practice. Through a close reading of theatre productions and plays, Gorman identifies how Maxwell renders the conventions of both realist theatre and everyday American culture strange. Touching upon the acting, production, and rehearsal processes of NYC Player's work, and Maxwell's representations of space, community, race, and gender, this volume provides scholars with an important overview of a key figure in contemporary drama.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Opportunity Knocks 2. Bad Acting on Purpose: Practising Intelligibility and Legitimacy on Stage 3. Passionate Indifference: Cook County Theater Department 4. ‘I Got Balls, See?’ A Study of Working Class Masculinity in the Plays of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players 5. Concert Hall Slash Sports Facility: the Anthropological Space of Richard Maxwell’s Theatre 6. Conclusion: Inscrutability, Irony and Binary Assignations

About the author

Sarah Gorman is Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at Roehampton University, London. Her research focuses on contemporary European and North American experimental theatre. She has recently contributed to Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes and A Concise Companion to British and Irish Drama.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Gorman, Gorman Sarah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138378087
• ISBN: 978-1-138-37808-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Individual actors and performers