Signs of life
six comedies of menace
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Author
Contributions
- Patraka, Vivian. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Wesleyan University Press, [Middletown, Conn.], Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL671895M
- ISBN-100819563234
- OCLC Control Number37141089
- OCLC Control Numbersignsoflifesixco0000sche
- Library of Congress Control Number97017910
and 2 more
- LibraryThing928506
- Goodreads1356454
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3569.C4829 S5 1998
Description
Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America's most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as comedies of menace. These plays explore issues of feminism and gender politics, history and memory, sexuality and violence, bringing to life such figures as Gertrude Stein and Marlene Dietrich, Hitler and Eva Braun, P. T. Barnum and Henry and Alice James, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Schenkar's charged language and evocative stage directions invite the reader to become both performer and audience. Written to be read like novels as well as staged, the plays provide a unique theatrical experience.
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Other Editions
- Signs of life: six comedies of menace
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