Cabaret Performance Volume II: Europe1920-1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs

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Cabaret Performance Volume II: Europe 1920-1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs

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Heiner Müller lived through Germany's tumultuous history from Hitler's rise through Soviet occupation to the building and eventual demolition of the Berlin Wall. One of his earliest memories was of his father being beaten by Brownshirts and taken away to a concentration camp; later, Müller chose to stay in the Soviet Zone even when his father defected to the West. His work presents a phantasmagoric vision of culture and history. Though a committed Marxist, Müller loathed the East German government, and his works were often censured for their caustic portrait of a Germany whose history was an unending act of division and violence.
This new anthology traces the multifaceted evolution of Müller the playwright, poet, and eloquent observer of his century's violent trajectory. The writings collected here range from Müller's earliest work, including short stories and early poems from the 1950s, to some of his last works, including Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man. Translator and editor Carl Weber provides helpful introductions to each of the selections.

A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose (PAJ Books)

Literature & Fiction

Müller, Heiner

Dramas & Plays

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust collects for the first time critical essays, memoirs, and primary source materials -- many never before available in English -- relating to the surprising history of Jewish drama, cabaret, music, and opera under the Third Reich. These documents offer the remarkable account of a phenomenon that existed across Nazi Europe -- in German cities, in Eastern European ghettos, and in concentration camps.

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Theatre of the Ridiculous (PAJ Books)

Beelzebub Sonata: Plays / Essays / Documents

Professor Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz

The standard critical work on the author features two dozen essays and miscellaneous pieces by leading theatre critics, directors, and actors on the plays and productions of Shepard, from the beginning of his career. A special section by the author on his own work is also included.

American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard

"This volume should be read by those interested in both theatre and interpretive strategies, semiological and otherwise." -- Modern Language NotesIn Languages of the Stage, Patrice Pavis explores the questions of semiology in both classical and contemporary drama, ranging widely over the works of the ancient Greeks, Marivaux, Artaud, Brecht, Brook, Handke, and Wilson.

Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre (PAJ Books)

Pavis, Professor Patrice

Builds bridges between such diverse forms as mime, avant-garde, and classical theatre. --Modern Language Notes

PAVIS, PATRICE

"Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary Supplement
How is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with these and other questions in a classic study that ranges from anthropology to acting, from everyday life to artistic genres.

From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books)

Turner, Professor Victor

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Cabaret Performance Volume II: Europe1920-1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs

Cabaret Performance Volume II: Europe 1920-1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs

A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose (PAJ Books)

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Theatre of the Ridiculous (PAJ Books)

Beelzebub Sonata: Plays / Essays / Documents

American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard

Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre (PAJ Books)

Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre (PAJ Books)

From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books)