ACKERMAN A. & M. PUCHNER Against Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.

ACKERMAN A. & M. PUCHNER Against Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.

Paperback, 272pp., NEW, Against Theatre, now available in paperback, shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama, from Oscar Wilde to Bertolt Brecht and Jean Genet, shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy the existing theatre. But from this destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist drama, in which figures such as Pablo Picasso, Zora Neale Hurston, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Eisenstein invented the theatre anew. No component of theatre - the dramatic text, the actor, the set design or the music - escaped the fundamental questioning that became the hallmark of modernism. In this, modern drama was aligned with the rearrangement of the arts in the early twentieth century. This fascinating collection includes contributions from leading scholars in the English-speaking world and is a key resource for anyone interested in modern drama, modernist theatre, modernism, and theatre studies.
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