| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 367 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in theatre history and culture |
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Studies in theatre history and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- New York. Border-crossings -- Star power, Gallic style -- Three fresh voices -- From dialogue to parole -- Edgy and cool -- Paris. Great classics revisited -- Boulevard, experimental, and in-between -- Three prodigious artists -- Cultural diversity (I): ethnicities -- Cultural diversity (II): operas and circuses -- Avignon. A festival turns sixty -- Recap and coda : French theatre tomorrow |
| Summary |
In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City's ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month's sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- France -- 21st century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Theater
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010050569 |
| ISBN |
9781587299933 |
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1587299933 |
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