October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
12h 39m
English
Postmodern Drama: A Case Study
I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.
Jean-François Lyotard
The theatre’s peculiarities [make] it a particularly resonant space for staging the kind of postmodern, collective nervous breakdown American society has been having.
Tony Kushner
The individual’s most rudimentary freedom today is to be without isms.
Gao Xingjian
I don’t deal with “isms” but with reality.
Heiner Müller
Postmodernism has well-established connections with literature and the arts, philosophy and criticism, architecture, economics, and politics, as well as the media, mass culture, and many other fields. Although the meaning of the term is still evolving, a cursory Internet search will show that its evangelizing ...