Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists on RadioOhio University Press, 1996 - 238 pàgines In Sight Unseen radio drama, a genre traditionally dismissed as popular culture, is celebrated as high art. The radio plays discussed here range from the conventional (John Arden's Pearl) to the docudramatic (David Rudkin's Cries from Casement), from the curtly conversational (Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache) to the virtually operatic (Robert Ferguson's Transfigured Night), testifying to radio drama's variety and literary stature. Two of the plays included in this study pose aesthetic questions--the role of art in politics (Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution), and the nature of artistic excellence (Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase). Guralnick contends that well-crafted radio plays tend to meld to their medium so naturally that they cannot be transferred to the theater or to film without being diminished. Each play is thus shown to exploit, to special effect, one of radio's fundamental features: its invisible stage (Barker and Stoppard), its affinity to music (Ferguson and Beckett), its ability to imitate the mind's subjectivity (Kopit and Pinter), its association with world events through features and the news (Rudkin). As for the question of radio's relation to the theater, the issue is engaged in the work of John Arden, who dares to portray a theatrical stage on the airwaves, while intimating that the radio offers contemporary playwrights an incomparable boon: creative conditions roughly equivalent to those enjoyed by Shakespeare. |
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... productions , I have cited them but rarely and have made little mention of so - called production values - sound effects , background music , electronic filters for noises and voices , and the like . In adopting this approach , I hazard ...
... productions , I have cited them but rarely and have made little mention of so - called production values - sound effects , background music , electronic filters for noises and voices , and the like . In adopting this approach , I hazard ...
Pàgina 177
... production was set in 1923 in the French - occupied Rhineland with the French in the position of the Austrians . Ultimately it was impossible to tell from the production whether Heyme saw Schiller as guilty of the kind of banner ...
... production was set in 1923 in the French - occupied Rhineland with the French in the position of the Austrians . Ultimately it was impossible to tell from the production whether Heyme saw Schiller as guilty of the kind of banner ...
Pàgina 204
... production of Words and Music ( Frost , 372 ) , and Beckett who suggested Humphrey Searle for Katharine Worth's earlier productions of both Words and Music and Cascando . Both of these choices surely indicate respect for modern music ...
... production of Words and Music ( Frost , 372 ) , and Beckett who suggested Humphrey Searle for Katharine Worth's earlier productions of both Words and Music and Cascando . Both of these choices surely indicate respect for modern music ...
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Referències a aquest llibre
Theatre of Sound: Radio and the Dramatic Imagination Dermot Rattigan Visualització de fragments - 2002 |
Essays on Music and the Spoken Word and on Surveying the Field Suzanne M. Lodato,David Francis Urrows Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |