New Downtown Now An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York

Name: New Downtown Now An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York
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ISBN: 9780816647316

ISBN-10: 0816647313

ISBN-13: 9780816647316

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mac Wellman, Young Jean Lee, Jeffrey M. Jones

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At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge and undermine the conventional structure, language, and characterization of commercial theater while rejecting outdated notions of the avant-garde. New Downtown Now brings together ten new works that exemplify the playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleido-scopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.584

Young Jean Lee is an OBIE award-winning playwright and director who has been called 'the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation' by the New York Times and 'one of the best experimental playwrights in America' by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over twenty cities around the world.



Preface



Introduction: How to Read a Curious Play



Interim



Tragedy: a tragedy



Nine Come



Sachiko



Enoshima Island



The Appeal



The Vomit Talk of Ghosts



Ajax (por nobody)



Apparition: An Uneasy Play of the Underknown



Demon Baby



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