{"product_id":"theater-and-violence-9780822366157","title":"Theater and Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tom Sellar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs violence escalates around the world, its victims and perpetrators struggle to develop comprehensible narratives to present truthful accounts of history and experience. This special issue of \u003ci\u003eTheater\u003c\/i\u003e--a collection of theater artists' responses to contemporary events--examines the human psyche and its capacity for violence and explores theater's possibilities for political dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTheater and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, through interviews, play excerpts, and full-length plays--including the first American publication of two major German playwrights and directors--theater artists offer their own narratives for humankind's violent psychologies. One full-length play, Falk Richter's \u003ci\u003eSeven Seconds (In God We Trust)\u003c\/i\u003e, probes the mind of an American pilot moments before he releases a bomb on a city below. Another, René Pollesch's \u003ci\u003e24 Hours Are Not a Day\u003c\/i\u003e, humorously explores the ironies and pathologies of globalization after September 11. The issue also includes a commentary on the National Endowment for the Arts' Shakespeare presentations for the U.S. military; interviews with Russian theater artists on the first anniversary of the Chechen rebels' siege of a Moscow theater; and Jonathan Kalb's powerful adaptation of Heiner Müller's \u003ci\u003eMauser\u003c\/i\u003e, set in Tikrit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Josh Fox, Gitta Honegger, Jonathan Kalb, Anna Kohler, James Leverett, Mark Lord, Marlene Norst, René Pollesch, Falk Richter, Yana Ross, Scott Saul, Tom Sellar, Catherine Sheehy, Robert Woodruff\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47781022990487,"sku":"9780822366157","price":1309.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822366157.webp?v=1778049960","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/theater-and-violence-9780822366157","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}