Edwin Wilson,
City University of NY Alvin Goldfarb,
Western Illinois University
ISBN: 007351411x Copyright year: 2008
What's New
New Part 1: The Theater in Today’s World highlights theater’s multicultural influences. This Part includes: Ch 1: Experiencing Theater Today, Ch 2: Theater Across Today’s Culture (new), and Ch 3: Today’s Diverse Theater.
New Chapter 2: Theater Across Today’s Culture includes new information about the diversity and multicultural influences of theater. Also, important connections to non-theater elements give students a context for the theater around them.
New Profile of a Production chronicles a production of Great Expectations staged at the Mill Mountain Theater in Virginia. This popular chapter allows students to experience through a photo essay the many facets of a production, from sketches and costume fittings to dress rehearsal and finished production.
More than half the photos in the 6th edition are new, bringing students closer than ever to Broadway productions such as Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Spamalot, The Pajama Game, and The Odd Couple while also exposing students to global theater productions such as Zulu Macbeth, Japan’s Ataka, and London’s Billy Elliot: The Musical.
Play Synopses: Now collected in an appendix for easy reference, synopses of certain plays from each period are included with this text. Among the plays included are Sophocles’ King Oedipus, Kiyotsugo’s Sotoba Komachi, Molière’s Tartuffe, Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, and Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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