The Text in Play: Representations of Rehearsal in Modern Drama

by Robert Baker-White

The Text in Play interrogates theatrical creativity by focusing on how twentieth-century playwrights have incorporated scenes of rehearsal into their dramatic texts. Contemporary theoretical perspectives, principally from Brecht, Bahktin, and Barthes, are used to analyze a series of avant-garde plays whose dramatization of the messiness and flux of rehearsal creativity serves to destabilize yet also invigorate their theatrical potentials.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481007
• ISBN13: 9781611481006
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 212 Pages