{"product_id":"contemporary-american-drama-9780748624935","title":"Contemporary American Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Annette Saddik\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups.Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.Key features* Examines the influence of international figures such as Aristotle, Brecht, Artaud and Boal who are central to theatre as a discipline* Explores realistic and anti-realistic styles of American drama and their political and social implications, along with key critical terms and movements* Places the complexity of contemporary American drama within its political, sexual and ethnic contexts* Includes rare images from La MaMa Archive\/Ellen Stewart Private Collection* Discusses in detail \u003ci\u003eStairs to the Roof\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCamino Real\u003c\/i\u003e by Tennessee Williams, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Salesman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e by Arthur Miller, \u003ci\u003eDutchman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Slave\u003c\/i\u003e by Amira Baraka, \u003ci\u003eFunnyhouse of a Negro\u003c\/i\u003e by Adrienne Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Tooth of Crime\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e by Sam Shepherd and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Buffalo\u003c\/i\u003e by David Mamet as well as a range of other texts and performers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47585484800151,"sku":"9780748624935","price":13063.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780748624935.webp?v=1774960509","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contemporary-american-drama-9780748624935","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}