Prof Enoch Brater: 14 books
Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett
The Falsetto of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original,...
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines
Woman's Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.
Tracing...
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible,...
The Contemporary American Monologue
Performance and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson,...
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage
Spectacles of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized...
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain
Staging Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally...
by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with...
Beat Drama
Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as...
Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Make it Real
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework...
Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre
Politics, Affect, Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with precarity, affect, risk, intimacy, care and relationality in recent...
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance
The Initiation of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism...
Social Housing in Performance
The English Council Estate on and off Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the...
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Revolutions in Theatrical Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies – and a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex Machina have negotiated some of the most...
by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic...