Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Staging Gertrude Stein : Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre - L. Durham

Staging Gertrude Stein

Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre

By: L. Durham

Hardcover | 14 October 2005 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $84.99

$73.75

13%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $18.44 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

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 it in ways virtually unimaginable when the reader encounters the text on the printed page. It is only by mapping the intersections of written text, performance text, and context, that one can gain a full appreciation of what Stein's dramatic writing has meant at various historical moments, how she herself has been imagined, and how her writing has transformed the landscape of the American alternative theatre.

More in Acting & Theatre Studies

Saoirse : The Work, Life, and Style of Saoirse Ronan - Kaila Hale-Stern
Speak Up : How to be a successful presenter and media spokesperson - Theresa Miller
The Godot Diaries : Behind the Scenes of Beckett's Play - Lucian Msamati
Arthur Miller's New York : Visions of the City - Stephen Marino
Sanford Meisner On Acting : Vintage Vintage - Sanford Meisner

RRP $27.99

$20.99

25%
OFF
Performance in Bali : Then and Now - Leon Rubin

RRP $326.00

$280.99

14%
OFF
Performance in Bali : Then and Now - Leon Rubin

RRP $88.99

$81.75

The Lost History of Roman Theatre - T.P. Wiseman
Stephen Sondheim : Art Isn't Easy - Daniel Okrent
All Is But Fantasy : Modern Plays - Whitney White
You Got Older : Modern Plays - Clare Barron
Hamilton : The Revolution - Lin-Manuel Miranda

RRP $89.99

$64.99

28%
OFF
Actions : The Actor's Thesaurus : The Actor's Thesaurus - Marina Caldarone
A Doll's House : Student Editions - Henrik Ibsen

RRP $21.99

$20.75

Mr. Burns and Other Plays - Anne Washburn

RRP $34.99

$29.99

14%
OFF
Centre Stage : 3rd edition - Mathew Clausen

RRP $60.95

$56.75

Jack Charles : Born-again Blakfella - Jack Charles

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF