Format:
1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841502298
Series Statement:
Playtext
Content:
Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who is cerebral palsied, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority, offering various models of difference - physical, cultural and moral - and their stories of dislocation. Their themes, contextualized here by companion essays, expand the boundaries of British drama and connect to the comic grotesque tradition by giving the 'abnormal' a broad appeal. To date, MacDonald is one of the few severely disabled playwrights to have their work staged and he deals with issues rarely covered in drama. Consequently, Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a daring portrayal of disability from the inside
Content:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Texts -- Bread and Circus Freaks -- The Sweetheart Zone -- Emigrés -- Part Two: Essays -- Getting to Know James MacDonald -- Director's Notes -- Freaks, Food and Fairy Tales: Confronting the Limits of Disability in Bread and Circus Freaks -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841501864
Additional Edition:
Print version Macdonald, James Russia, Freaks and Foreigners : Three Performance Texts Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2008 ISBN 9781841501864
Language:
English
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