The Theatre of Paula Vogel

Name: The Theatre of Paula Vogel
Brand: Methuen Drama
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By Jones, Lee Brewer

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In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogel's major plays-including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive,and The Baltimore Waltz-before turning attention to her influence upon other major American playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and Quiara Alegría Hudes. Chapters explore Vogel's plays in chronological order, consider her early influences and offer detailed accounts of her work in performance. Enriched by an interview with Lynn Nottage and essays from scholars Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright.
By the time Paula Vogel made her Broadway debut with her 2017 Rebecca Taichman collaboration Indecent, she was already an accomplished playwright, with a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive (1998) and two Obie Awards.She had also enjoyed a brilliant career as a professor at Brown and Yale with students such as Sarah Ruhl, a MacArthur "Genius" Grant winner, Pulitzer Prize winners Nilo Cruz, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and the only woman to win two Pulitzers for Drama, Lynn Nottage. Vogel's theatre draws upon Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and uses devices such as "defamiliarization" and "negative empathy" to challenge conventional definitions of protagonists and antagonists.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 206
Release Date:: 2025-01-23
Publication Date:: 2025-01-23
Publisher:: Methuen Drama
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350251755
ISBN13:: 9781350251755
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 266 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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