Raymond-Jean Frontain 
Conversations with Terrence McNally [PDF ebook] 

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Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of Broadway and the start of the Off-Broadway theater movement, Terrence Mc Nally (1938–2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic. He quickly recognized, however, that one is more likely to change people’s minds by first changing their hearts, and—in outrageous farces like
The Ritz and
It’s Only a Play—began using humor more broadly to challenge social biases. By the mid-1980s, as the emerging AIDS pandemic called into question America’s treatment of persons isolated by suffering and sickness, he became the theater’s great poet of compassion, dramatizing the urgent need of human connection and the consequences when such connections do not take place.
Conversations with Terrence Mc Nally collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears Mc Nally reflect on theater as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theater industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theater over Mc Nally’s fifty-plus year career. The winner of four competitive Tony Awards as the author of the Best Play (
Love! Valour! Compassion! and
Master Class) and author of the book for the Best Musical (
Kiss of the Spider Woman and
Ragtime), Mc Nally holds the distinction of being one of the few writers for the American theater who excelled in straight drama as well as musical comedy. In addition, his canon extends to opera; his collaboration with composer Jake Heggie,
Dead Man Walking, has proven the most successful new American opera of the last twenty-five years.

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Raymond-Jean Frontain is an independent scholar who has published eight books and over 100 scholarly articles on the Bible as literature, gay literature, Renaissance poetry, the Indian novel, and modern drama. His previous works on Terrence Mc Nally include The Theater of Terrence Mc Nally: Something about Grace (2019) and an edition of Mc Nally’s writings about theater, Muse of Fire (2021). He is currently at work on a study of Tennessee Williams’s sexual ethic.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 208 ● ISBN 9781496843258 ● Dateigröße 2.1 MB ● Herausgeber Raymond-Jean Frontain ● Verlag University Press of Mississippi ● Ort Jackson ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2023 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 8777878 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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