In The Other American Drama, Marc Robinson presents an alternative to the received history of modern American drama. Rather than beginning with O'Neill, the conventionally acknowledged father of American theatre, Robinson opens this collection with a long essay on the prolific but neglected theatrical career of O'Neill's contemporary, Gertrude Stein. Subsequent essays rethink familiar figures such as Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard, and make the case for undervalued writers such as Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy and Richard Foreman. Robinson explores the new directions seen in the work of several younger playwrights, and demonstrates how these writers upset assumptions about narrative and psychology, recharging aspects of performance often taken for granted - speech, movement, and space. Together these essays describe the evolution of a truly innovative American drama.
- ISBN10 0801856302
- ISBN13 9780801856303
- Publish Date 21 April 1997 (first published 29 July 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 15 May 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Imprint Performing Arts Journals
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English