Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: An Introduction

by Claire Warden and 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748681558
• ISBN13: 9780748681556
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"