Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage

Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage
ISBN-10
0253113520
ISBN-13
9780253113528
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1996-05-22
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
Nora M. Alter

Description

"... a thoughtful and important treatment of the international tensions of the period as they were embodied in theatre practice. It is the only book of its kind on the subject, and a valuable source of production information." -- Theatre Journal "... an excellent discussion of the aesthetics of theater." -- Choice The escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s unleashed worldwide protest. Playwrights grappled with the complexities of post-imperialist politics and with the problems of creating effective political theatre in the television age. The ephemeral theatre these writers created, today little-known and rarely studied, provides an important window on a complex moment in culture and history.

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