Myth Propaganda And Disaster In Nazi Germany And Contemporary America And It Just Stopped Two Plays

Author : Stephen Sewell
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780868198170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Just Stopped written by Stephen Sewell and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A savage comedy of manners, "It Just Stopped" explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival? To describe Stephen Sewell's dark comedy as a cautionary tale does it scant justice, given the anger and apocalyptic vision driving its mayhem and fun. "It Just Stopped" is a whimsical, argumentative, satirical and deeply serious play. Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, "Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America" reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11. With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero. Stephen Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism? What happens when the Land of the Free makes such uncompromising statements as: 'You're either with us or against us'?

Author : Stephen Sewell
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America written by Stephen Sewell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre programme at end of playtext.

Author : Denise Varney
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120053X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Visions 1968-2008 written by Denise Varney and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The International Generation of 1968: Theatre and Culture -- The Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968-2008 -- Williamson in the Howard Years -- John Romeril - The Asian Australian Journey -- A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen -- Richard Murphet and the Wounded Subject -- Jenny Kemp - On the Edge -- Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Mohebat Ahmadi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100058397X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards an Ecocritical Theatre written by Mohebat Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of changing interactions between humans and the nonhuman world. To explore these problems, the book investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, E.M. Lewis, Chantal Bilodeau, Jordan Hall, and Miwa Matreyek, who have taken significant steps towards re-orienting theatre from its traditional focus on humans to an ecocritical attention to nonhumans and the environment in the Anthropocene. Their theatrical works show how an engagement with the problem of scale disrupts the humanist bias of theatre, provoking new modes of theatrical inquiry that envision a scale beyond the human and realign our ecological culture, art, and intimacy with geological time. Moreover, the plays and performances studied here, through their liveness, immediacy, physicality, and communality, examine such scalar shifts via the problem of agency in order to give expression to the stories of nonhuman actants. These theatrical works provoke reflections on the flourishing of multispecies responsibilities and sensitivities in aesthetic and ethical terms, providing a platform for research in the environmental humanities through imaginative conversations on the world’s iterative performativity in which all bodies, human and nonhuman, are cast horizontally as agential forces on the theatrical world stage. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre studies, environmental humanities, and ecocritical studies.

Author : John McCallum
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by John McCallum and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCallum's new history explores the relationship between 20th century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by dueling impulses between nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and between artistic seriousness and larrikin populism. It explores issues such as the domineering influence of European high culture, the ongoing popularity of representational realism, the influence of popular theatrical forms, the ambivalence (between affection and aggression) of much Australian humour and satire, and the interaction between the personal and the political in drama. The strength of "Belonging" is its comprehensiveness, anyone studying an Australian play will find an account of it here in the context of the other works by its author or the time and place in which it was written. As well as a rundown of the major writers and their works, and an account of how the minor writers fitted in, the book also investigates the more obscure plays and writers about whom little has been written. This authoritative study of Australian drama gives an account of the relationship between our theatre and our sense of self while taking into account a broad range of influences that helped to shape both.

Author : Stephen Sewell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312173637
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kandahar Gate written by Stephen Sewell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This feverish 'dream play' is a collaboration between playwright Stephen Sewell and director Jeff Janisheski. Kandahar Gate is loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, but transplants the action to contemporary Australia and centres on the death of a soldier in Afghanistan. At the dark heart of the play is an exploration of how 'truth' gets buried -- by governments, the military, and one's own memory. It is a powerful and deeply political piece of theatre from one of Australia's great playwrights"--P. [4] of cover.

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Download or read book Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State Theatre Company Programs.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Literary Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 802 pages
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Download or read book New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: