The Theater of Terrence McNally : Something about Grace - Raymond-Jean Frontain

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The Theater of Terrence McNally

Something about Grace

By: Raymond-Jean Frontain

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Paperback | 15 October 2021

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Terrence McNallyâs canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to identify the four major stages of McNallyâs development in terms of his understanding of how theater helps the modern person trapped in a seemingly profane existence to find a gateway to the transcendent. Drawing upon such diverse religious thinkers as Martin Buber, Mircea Eliade, Ilia Delio and Carter Heyward, Frontain analyzes the evolution of McNallyâs understanding of grace, not as a gift bestowed by an all-powerful deity upon a desperate soul, but as the unwarrantedâ"and, thus, all the more unusualâ"âact of devotionâ (McNallyâs phrase) that one person performs for another. By seeking to foment community, most importantly at the height of the AIDS pandemic, McNallyâs theater itself proves to be a channel of grace. McNallyâs greatest success is shown to be the creation of a theater of empathy and compassion in contradistinction to Artaudâs âtheater of crueltyâ and Albeeâs Americanization of the theater of the absurd.

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