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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss
Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.
Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss
Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.
"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss
"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Excerpt: In 1975, Bob Dylan invited Sam Shepard, the young playwright who had ignited the Off-Broadway and London theatre scene, to go on tour with him in order to write scenes and dialogue for a film of the Rolling Thunder Revue.
The Cambridge Companion To African American Theatre, Harvey Young
The Cambridge Companion To African American Theatre, Harvey Young
Harvey Young
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights and actors whose efforts helped to fashion a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, and reveal the impact of African American theatre both within the United …
Reimaging A Raisin In The Sun: Four New Plays, Harvey Young
Reimaging A Raisin In The Sun: Four New Plays, Harvey Young
Harvey Young
n 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun energized the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining “A Raisin in the Sun,” Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young bring together four contemporary plays—including 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Clybourne Park—that, in their engagement with Hansberry’s play, illuminate the tensions and anxieties that still surround neighborhood integration. Although the plays—Robert O’Hara’s Etiquette of Vigilance, Gloria Bond Clunie’s Living Green, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, and Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park—are distinct from one another in terms of style and perspective on their predecessor, they commonly …
The Influence Of Lloyd Richards, Harvey Young
Writing With Paint, Harvey Young
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, And The Black Body, Harvey Young
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, And The Black Body, Harvey Young
Harvey Young
In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut off his toes and, later, his fingers and sold them as souvenirs. In "Embodying Black Experience," Harvey Young masterfully blends biography, archival history, performance theory, and phenomenology to relay the experiences of black men and women who, like Ward, were profoundly affected by the spectacular intrusion of racial violence within their lives. Looking back over the past two hundred years---from the exhibition of boxer Tom Molineaux and …
Racial Contagion, Harvey Young
The Black Body As Souvenir In American Lynching, Harvey Young
The Black Body As Souvenir In American Lynching, Harvey Young
Harvey Young
This essay reads the collection of body parts, in the aftermath of the lynching spectacle, as souvenirs, fetish objects, and performance remains. Along the way, it spotlights the importance of narrative to the souvenir, challenges the notion that performance disappears through an emphasis on its remains, and asserts that embodied experiences of the past can be accessed in the present.
Cultural Memory And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S A Lie Of The Mind, States Of Shock And The Late Henry Moss, Katherine Weiss
Cultural Memory And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S A Lie Of The Mind, States Of Shock And The Late Henry Moss, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss