Research Catalog

Title

The Edinburgh companion to modernism in contemporary theatre / edited by Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton and Claire Warden.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Curtin, Adrian, 1980-
• Johnson, Nicholas
• Paxton, Naomi
• Warden, Claire

Description

xiii, 462 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

This volume highlights modernism as an impulse that can be carried forward to the present, re-embodied and re-encountered in theatrical performance. It demonstrates how modernist impulses spark contemporary theatre in dynamic ways, continuing the modernist imperative to 'make it new' and to engage meaningfully with the complicated situation of living in the contemporary world. A diverse set of contributions from scholars and theatre practitioners examines the legacy of modernism on the world stage in acts of remembrance, restaging, transmission and slippage. It investigates both well-known and less familiar aspects of modernist theatre history, engaging topics such as the revival of the first Black American musical, feminist and disability-led reinterpretations of canonical modernist plays, the use of modernist-inspired performance practice in contemporary university arts education and the continually contested meaning and importance of the avant-garde. --

Series Statement

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Uniform Title

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Drama > 21st century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature)
• Theater
• Drama

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

(anti-)capitalsism: a manifesto -- Introduction: Sensing Modernism in Theatre / Claire Warden, Nicholas Johnson, Adrian Curtin and Naomi Paxton -- Part I: Remembrance and Reconfiguration -- 1. Introduction: Playing with the Past, Attending to the 'Lost' / Claire Warden -- 2. 'The Right to Revolution': Ernst Toller's Legacy on the British Stage / Claire Warden -- 3. Legacy, Embodiment, Activism: Pageant of Agitating Women / Monica Prince and Anna Andes -- 4. Modernist Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Dance / Chris Collins -- 5. Reaching Out in Both Directions: Suffrage Theatre in the Twenty-First Century / Naomi Paxton -- 6. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Challenges of Black Modernist Performance on the Contemporary Stage / Carrie J. Preston -- 7. 'Who Was This Woman?' A Conversation about Remembering Modernist Figures through the Body / Jessica Walker and Claire Warden -- 8. An Ode to Black Women Modernists / Adjoa Osei -- Part II: Restaging Drama -- 9. Introduction: Acts of Translation, Reimagining and Creative Destruction / Adrian Curtin -- 10. Restaging Futurism and Joan Brossa: Provocation or Observation with a Glass of Champagne or a Cup of Tea / John London -- 11. Marguerite Duras's Theatre and the Boundaries of Modernism / Lib Taylor -- 12. The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in Chekhov's First Play / Adrian Curtin -- 13. En-Staging Nora: Unruly Modernisms in Theodoros Terzopoulos's Nora / Konstantinos Thomaidis and Maria Vogiatzi -- 14. After and Against Strindberg: A Conversation about Missing Julie / Kaite O'Reilly and Adrian Curtin -- 15. 'A Voice She Did Not Recognise At First': Touretteshero's Neurodiverse Presentation of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Matthew Pountney -- 16. Pushing the Boundaries: Staging Western Modern(ist) Drama in Contemporary China / Shouhua Qi -- Part III: Transmission -- 17. Introduction: (Im)material Legacies, Living Traditions / Claire Warden, Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson and Naomi Paxton -- 18. The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki at the Crossroads of Modernism / Burc İdem Dincel -- 19. Stanislavski on Skype / Mark Westbrook -- 20. Raising Her Voice: Presenting the Lives and Writings of Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth for a Contemporary Theatre Audience / Lucy Stevens -- 21. Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People / Kerry Frampton -- 22. Appropriation, Abstraction and Appraisal: Modernist Legacies of Contemporary Dance / Hanna Jarvinen -- 23. Shaw and the Early-Twentieth-Century British Regional Repertory Movement / Soudabeh Ananisarab -- 24. 'Aqui no estamos en el teatro': Impossible Plays, Queer Ghosts and Haunted Practices / Jonathan Heron -- Part IV: Slippages -- 25. Introduction: How Movements Might Move / Nicholas Johnson -- 26. Ages of Arousal / Penny Farfan -- 27. 'Make the New Legible through Experimentation': A Conversation on the (Ongoing) Avant-Garde / Sascha Bru and Nicholas Johnson -- 28. Brecht as Slippage: Interrobang's Dialogues with Modernist Theatre Machines / Ramona Mosse -- 29. 'What Could Be the Theatre of Contemporary Life?' A Conversation about the Work of Studio Oyuncuları Istanbul / Şahika Tekand and Burc İdem Dincel -- 30. 'How Do We Make a Room in the Theatre?' A Conversation about Design for Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin / Aedin Cosgrove and Nicholas Johnson -- 31. Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking / Nicholas Johnson -- 32. The Writing on the Wall Isn't There to Be Read: Unworking the Theatrical in the Figures of Adrienne Kennedy / Kevin Bell -- Afterword / Olga Taxidou -- Event Scores (after fluxus).

Call Number

MWEC 23-4572

ISBN

• 9781474495042
• 1474495044
• 9781474495066 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474495059 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1350573342

Title

The Edinburgh companion to modernism in contemporary theatre / edited by Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson, Naomi Paxton and Claire Warden.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Curtin, Adrian, 1980- editor.

Johnson, Nicholas, editor.

Paxton, Naomi, editor.

Warden, Claire, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781474495066

Research Call Number

MWEC 23-4572