Conversations with Terrence McNally - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1496843215 ISBN 13 : 9781496843210

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2023

Synopsis

Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938–2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and—in outrageous farces like The Ritz and It’s Only a Play—began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America’s treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater’s great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place.

Conversations with Terrence McNally collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears McNally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over McNally’s fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class) and author of the book for the Best Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime), McNally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raymond-Jean Frontain is an independent scholar who has published eight books and over one hundred scholarly articles on the Bible as literature, gay literature, Renaissance poetry, the Indian novel, and modern drama. His previous works on Terrence McNally include The Theater of Terrence McNally: Something about Grace and an edition of McNally's writings about theater, Muse of Fire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496843215
• ISBN 13: 9781496843210
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Frontain Raymond-Jean
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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