| Description |
276 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Positions. The Theatre of Guilt. The Options of Multiculturalism. The War on the Arts, I. The War on the Arts, II. Greenwich Village Follies. An Embarrassment of Riches. Dumbocracy in America -- Performances. Cold Hearts. Birds and Beasts of the West. Twenty-first Century Hamlet. Dressup Plays. In the Belly of "La Bete" Emerging British Directors. Public and Private History. More Yuppie Realism. Terror in the Bedroom. The Schlepic, Part II: Escape from Saigon. The Dreaming of the Bones. Melting the Concrete. Opinions, Opinions. What Do Women Playwrights Want? 'Cause Jelly Don't Shake Like That. Awards Versus Achievements. Wilson Lights Stein's Lights. The Theatre of Pain. The Editorial Play. Nothing to Declare. Akalaitis Axed. Angles in America. The Great Work Falters. Return of the Master. Diversity and Unity. Hillbilly Blues. A Theatre Marking Time. The Rehabilitation of Edward Albee. PC - or Not PC -- Profiles. Strindberg to the Life. Legitimizing Kenneth Tynan |
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Vaclav Havel Disturbs the Peace. Gielgud and Olivier. Memories of Joe Papp. The Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings: Caricatures in Search of an Author. Harold Clurman and the Group. Lionel Trilling: Memories of an Intellectual Father |
| Summary |
The theatre as mirror of our peculiar politics - this is the theme of Robert Brustein's engaging new collection of writings. No theatre critic in America is more informed by ideas than Mr. Brustein, and no critic does a better job of relating theatre to the larger culture. Here, in essays, reviews, and profiles, some of them appearing for the first time, Mr. Brustein uses the prism of the American theatre to explore the motivating impulses behind galloping political correctness |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- Reviews.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater and society -- United States.
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| LC no. |
94017515 |
| ISBN |
1566630606 acid-free paper |
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1566630983 paperback |
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