Playing for Time
Subtitle: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780719061974
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance
Description: Explores connections between theater time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions. The diversity of the texts that are examined is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and Priestley.