Andy Lavender: 3 books
Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Theatres of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the ‘classic’ postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency, performance in the twenty-first century engages...
Hamlet in Pieces
Shakespeare Reworked by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Three extraordinary productions of Hamlet by three giants of modern theatre.
Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson have all attempted radical reworkings of Hamlet. This book examines their very different approaches.
Brook's Qui Est La - his 'variation' on Hamlet - was first seen...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...