Urban drama
Subtitle: the metropolis in contemporary North American plays
By: J. Chris Westgate
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230114531
Subjects: Theater; Space and time in literature; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; American drama; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting; DRAMA / American; History; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Description: "Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Urban Drama examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century. In plays as different as Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, and David Henry Hwang's FOB, these concerns became spatialized against the urban environment, suggesting a shift of consciousness toward what critical geography has argued: The social is always spatial. Urban Drama interrogates how this shift informs playwriting in the 1980s and 1990s and inspires new modes of dramatic representation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.