Beat drama
Subtitle: playwrights and performances of the 'Howl' generation
By: edited by Deborah R. Geis ; series editors, Enoch Brater and Mark Taylor-Batty
Series: Methuen Drama Engage; Methuen drama engage
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781472567888; 9781472567871
Subjects: Beats (Persons) in literature; American drama; Beats (Persons)
Other titles: Playwrights and performances of the 'Howl' generation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'canonical' beats. Mediation and immediacy : the I and You of Jack Kerouac's theatre of voice / Tim Hunt ; Howl and the performance of communion / John Whalen-Bridge ; Gregory Corso's dada-surrealist-absurd Beat plays / Ronna C. Johnson ; Unfair arguments with existence : Lawrence Ferlinghetti's one-acts and the modes of Beat drama / Deborah R. Geis ; William S. Burroughs and the shooting of Joan Vollmer Burroughs as performance / William Nesbitt ; The stoop : Anne Waldman's early drama / Lisa Chinn; title: The 'Afro-beats'. Amiri Baraka's revolutionary theatre : Black power politics, avant-garde poetics / Jimmy Fazzino ; Sounding across the city : Ted Joans's Bird lives! as jazz performance / Amor Kohli ; Radical ritual performance in the early prophetic poetry of Bob Kaufman / Thomas Pynn ; Adrienne Kennedy : a kindred spirit to the Beats / Nita N. Kumar; title: Poets theatre and the Beats. Bunny Lang and the Cambridge Poets' Theatre in the 1950s / Heidi R. Bean ; Diane di Prima as playwright : the early years 1959-1964 / Nancy M. Grace ; Homely persons, rude speeches : camp personalities, Cold War sensibilities and dystopian impulses in Frank O'Hara's Loves labor, an eclogue / Jason Lagapa ; Outlaw tongues : the stimuli for Michael McClure's The beard / Kurt Hemmer ; Poetry takes centre stage : John Wieners' Still life at the New York Poets Theatre / Erik Mortenson; title: Early off-off Broadway theatre. Evenings of Bohemian cruelty : the living theatre in the 1950s / Tim Good ; Eas[ing] the possible past the expected : a restaging of Hettie Jones / Tatum Petrich ; Cowboy in the rock garden : Beat influences in Sam Shepard's early plays / Deborah R. Geis ; Rochelle Owens : off beat, off-off Broadway / Amy Friedman ; Rosalyn Drexler : savvy savage, sassy polymath / Dorothy Chansky; title: Film and Beat performance. Kerouac's The subterraneans : when film adaptation becomes cultural betrayal / Sara Villa ; 'This was my Hollywood career' : Jack Kerouac's On the road and 1950s Hollywood / Matt Theado ; The many movies of Kerouac's Big Sur / Terence Diggory ; Angel tendencies and gratuitous acts : Kill your darlings and the legacy of Lucien Carr / Fiona Paton.