The Theatre of Naomi Wallace [electronic resource] : Embodied Dialogues /
Cummings, Scott T.author.
Stevens Abbitt, Erica.author.
Abbitt, E. Stevens.editor.
Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Comédie-Française, in regional and provincial theaters, and on college campuses around the world. Known for their intimate, sensual encounters examining the relationship between identity and power, Wallace's works have attracted a wide range of theatre practitioners, including such important directors as Dominic Dromgoole, Ron Daniels, Jo Bonney, and Kwame Kwei-Armah. Drawing on scholars, activists, historians, and theatre artists in the United States, Canada, Britain, and the Middle East, this anthology of essays presents a comprehensive overview of Wallace's body of work that will be of use to theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators alike.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: Embodied Dialogues; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Discourse of the Body; Part I Writings on Wallace; 1 Death and Desire, Apocalypse, and Utopia: Feminist Gestus and the Utopian Performative in the Plays of Naomi Wallace; 2 Love in a Wound; 3 Messianic Marxism in Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City and Things of Dry Hours; 4 An American Exile in America; 5 The City that Embraced Naomi Wallace; 6 Naomi Wallace and the Dramaturgy of Rehearsal; 7 Naomi Wallace and the Politics of Desire
8 Crucial Unspeakables, or Pedagogies of the Repressed: Directing Sex in the Plays of Naomi Wallace9 Mapping The Inland Sea : Naomi Wallace's British Epic Drama; 10 Slip's Bluff; 11 Journeys into the Heart of Whiteness: A Labor Historian Looks at the Work of Naomi Wallace; 12 Unbearable Intimacies: Occupation, Utopia, and Creative Destruction in The Fever Chart; 13 To Girl or Not to Girl; Part II Collaborators; Dominic Dromgoole , Standing on Your Head; Ron Daniels , Naomi Is Inside My Head; Riccardo Hernandez , Designing Wallace; Jessica Dromgoole , In the Fields of Naomi Wallace
David Gothard , Radical PoetryIsmail Khalidi , Being the "Other": Naomi Wallace and The Middle East; Dominique Hollier , Translating Wallace; Raz Shaw , Betting on Naomi and The Boss; Erin B. Mee , Mindscapes of Palestine; Jo Bonney , Directing Wallace; Abdelfattah Abusrour , Beautiful Resistance; Robin D. G. Kelley , The Facts of Love; Bruce McLeod , Nettle Soup; Part III Wallace in Her Own Words; Strange Times; Seven Poems; Let the Right One In: On Resistance, Hospitality and New Writing for the American Stage; Manifesto; We Are Also Each Other; The Fish Story; The Tal Pidae Lehrst ü cke
On Writing as TransgressionAppendix A: Naomi Wallace Selected Production History; Appendix B: Naomi Wallace Play Titles and Their Sources; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Comédie-Française, in regional and provincial theaters, and on college campuses around the world. Known for their intimate, sensual encounters examining the relationship between identity and power, Wallace's works have attracted a wide range of theatre practitioners, including such important directors as Dominic Dromgoole, Ron Daniels, Jo Bonney, and Kwame Kwei-Armah. Drawing on scholars, activists, historians, and theatre artists in the United States, Canada, Britain, and the Middle East, this anthology of essays presents a comprehensive overview of Wallace's body of work that will be of use to theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators alike.
Wallace, Naomi
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Arts.
Theater.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.