A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights

by John Louis DiGaetani

Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses postmodernism. This concept, while not universally accepted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313273642
• ISBN13: 9780313273643
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"