The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre / / ed. by Claire Warden, Nicholas Johnson, Adrian Curtin, Naomi Paxton.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ananisarab, Soudabeh,; Andes, Anna,; Bell, Kevin,; Bru, Sascha,; Collins, Christopher,; Cosgrove, Aedín,; Curtin, Adrian,; Dinçel, Burç İdem,
• HerausgeberIn: Curtin, Adrian,; Johnson, Nicholas,; Paxton, Naomi,; Warden, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.) :; 22 B/W illustrations

Explores modernism’s complex relationship with contemporary theatreIncludes consideration of canonical as well as lesser-known theatre artistsOffers an expansive range of case studies, featuring examples of theatre from around the worldConnects modernist studies with theatre and performance studiesM...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• (anti-)capitalsism: a manifesto
• Introduction: Sensing Modernism in Theatre
• Part I: Remembrance and Reconfiguration
• 1. Introduction: Playing with the Past, Attending to the ‘Lost’
• 2. ‘The Right to Revolution’: Ernst Toller’s Legacy on the British Stage
• 3. Legacy, Embodiment, Activism: Pageant of Agitating Women
• 4. Modernist Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Dance
• 5. Reaching Out in Both Directions: Suffrage Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
• 6. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Challenges of Black Modernist Performance on the Contemporary Stage
• 7. ‘Who Was This Woman?’ A Conversation about Remembering Modernist Figures through the Body
• 8. An Ode to Black Women Modernists
• Part II: Restaging Drama
• 9. Introduction: Acts of Translation, Reimagining and Creative Destruction
• 10. Restaging Futurism and Joan Brossa: Provocation or Observation with a Glass of Champagne or a Cup of Tea
• 11. Marguerite Duras’s Theatre and the Boundaries of Modernism
• 12. The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in Chekhov’s First Play
• 13. En-Staging Nora: Unruly Modernisms in Theodoros Terzopoulos’s Nora
• 14. After and Against Strindberg: A Conversation about Missing Julie
• 15. ‘A Voice She Did Not Recognise At First’: Touretteshero’s Neurodiverse Presentation of Samuel Beckett’s Not I
• 16. Pushing the Boundaries: Staging Western Modern(ist) Drama in Contemporary China
• Part III: Transmission
• 17. Introduction: (Im)material Legacies, Living Traditions
• 18. The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki at the Crossroads of Modernism
• 19. Stanislavski on Skype
• 20. Raising Her Voice: Presenting the Lives and Writings of Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth for a Contemporary Theatre Audience
• 21. Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People
• 22. Appropriation, Abstraction and Appraisal: Modernist Legacies of Contemporary Dance
• 23. Shaw and the Early-Twentieth-Century British Regional Repertory Movement
• 24. ‘Aquí no estamos en el teatro’: Impossible Plays, Queer Ghosts and Haunted Practices
• Part IV: Slippages
• 25. Introduction: How Movements Might Move
• 26. Ages of Arousal
• 27. ‘Make the New Legible through Experimentation’: A Conversation on the (Ongoing) Avant-Garde
• 28. Brecht as Slippage: Interrobang’s Dialogues with Modernist Theatre Machines
• 29. ‘What Could Be the Theatre of Contemporary Life?’ A Conversation about the Work of Studio Oyuncuları, Istanbul
• 30. ‘How Do We Make a Room in the Theatre?’ A Conversation about Design for Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin
• 31. Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking
• 32. The Writing on the Wall Isn’t There to Be Read: Unworking the Theatrical in the Figures of Adrienne Kennedy
• Afterword
• Event Scores (after fluxus)
• Notes on Contributors
• Index