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Against Theatre

Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage

by Alan Ackerman, Martin Puchner, Arnold Aronson, Elinor Fuchs, Herbert Samuel Lindenberger, Charlie Keil, Kirk Williams, Elin Diamond, Marjorie Perloff, Patrick McGuinness, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, David Savran, Julie Stone Peters, Herbert Blau

Cover of Against Theatre

Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

Performing arts, historyExperimental drama, history and criticism