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Against TheatreAgainst Theatre

Against Theatre

Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage

Herbert Blau, Charlie Keil, Herbert Samuel Lindenberger, David Savran, Elin Diamond, Kirk Williams, Martin Puchner, Marjorie Perloff, Patrick McGuinness, Alan Ackerman, Julie Stone Peters, Arnold Aronson, Elinor Fuchs, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

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Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

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OL Work ID
OL25646122W

Subjects

Performing arts, historyExperimental drama, history and criticism

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