Geraldine Cousin

Playing for time (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of lost children, ghosts and the endangered present in contemporary theatre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795489
• Artikelnr.: 42371865

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Cousin is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Collapsing House 2. Past Present: dramatisations of 'return'
3. Enter the Revenant 4. Nunc Instantis: Arcadia and Copenhagen 5. Stories
of Lost Futures 6. The Skriker's Progeny 7. Blood Sacrifice 8. Daughters'
Tales 9. Coram Boy: a final story