John Patrick Bray

Jack Gelber (eBook, PDF)

Consider This

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Produktbeschreibung

Jack Gelber: Consider This explores the works of American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as the link between the Art Theatre/Beat Generation and the Off-Off-Broadway movement.

With The Connection, Gelber provided a Pirandellian framework in which actors playing junkies demonstrated what it was like to wait for a fix. This play forever cemented Gelber's status in the American theater, and yet his subsequent works have been overlooked. This study, the first monographlength work dedicated to Gelber's plays, will consider Jack Gelber's theatrical works as important social humanist absurdist parables that force the audience to consider how the systems we create are flawed, to the extent that some addictions are permissible (even championed), and how we have an obligation to recognize that our social structures are upheld by, to use Gelber's word, "phonies." Gelber provides no easy answers. Rather, his plays attempt to shake audiences out of passive spectatorship both in the theater and (as is the hope) in their lives. The plays of Gelber will be analyzed closely, supplemented (where possible) with critical reactions to the plays as produced, while contextualizing each work within its own socioeconomic moment.

This book will appeal to scholars, professors, students, and other historians who have an interest in American playwriting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040398760
• Artikelnr.: 74497187

Autorenporträt

John Patrick Bray is a playwright, screenwriter, and freelance anthology editor. He is a Professor and current Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The Connection and The Apple: Gelber's Work with the Living Theatre 2 Square in the Eye and The Cuban Thing: Absurdist Domestic Dramas 3 Sleep
Barbary Jones
and Farmyard: Dreams
Adaptations
and Translations 4 Eat Shit: Jack Gelber's New Play: Rehearsal and Starters 5 Underproduced: Gelber's Work in the 1980s and 1990s: Rio Preserved
Chambers
Big Shot
Magic Valley
6 Tough Love: Dylan's Line (Jack Gelber's Last Play) Conclusion: Consider This