The Theatre of Naomi Wallace Embodied Dialogues [Paperback]

Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Com?die-Fran?aise, in regional and provincial theaters, and on college campuses around the world. Known for their intimate, sensual encounters examining the relationship between identity and power, Wallace's works have attracted a wide range of theatre practitioners, including such important directors as Dominic Dromgoole, Ron Daniels, Jo Bonney, and Kwame Kwei-Armah. Drawing on scholars, activists, historians, and theatre artists in the United States, Canada, Britain, and the Middle East, this anthology of essays presents a comprehensive overview of Wallace's body of work that will be of use to theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators alike.Preface: Embodied Dialogues; Erica Stevens Abbitt Introduction: The Discourse of the Body; Scott T. Cummings PART I: WRITINGS ON WALLACE 1. Death and Desire, Apocalypse, and Utopia: Feminist Gestus and the Utopian Performative in the Plays of Naomi Wallace; Shannon Baley 2. Love in a Wound; Scott T. Cummings 3. Messianic Marxism in Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City and Things of Dry Hours; Buell Wisner 4. An American Exile in America; Vivian Gornick 5. The City that Embraced Naomi Wallace; Walter Bilderback 6. Naomi Wallace and the Dramaturgy of Rehearsal; Lindsay B. Cummings 7. Naomi Wallace and the Politics of Desire; Josephine Machon 8. Crucial Unspeakables, or Pedagogies of the Repressed: Directing Sex in the Plays of Naomi Wallace; Beth Cleary 9. Mapping The Inland Sea: Naomi Wallace's British Epic Drama; Art Borreca 10. Slip's Bluff; Neil Chudgar 11. Journeys into the Heart of Whiteness: A Labor Historian Looks at the Work of Naomi Wallace; Peter Rachleff 12. Unbearable Intimacies: Occupation, Utopia, and Creative Destruction in The Fever Chart; Adam John Watermal£•