Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: An Introduction

by Claire Warden

The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performance
This textbook introduces the reader to modernist avant-garde theatre. It clearly explains the key terms as well as the major movements, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Futurism, Workers' theatres, Constructivism and the Living Newspaper, and Mass Performance, using a case study approach. It introduces the important innovations of the modernist avant-garde,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074868154X
• ISBN13: 9780748681549
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"