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The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

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The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

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The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

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The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players book

BySarah Gorman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 3 June 2011
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203810255
Pages 172
eBook ISBN 9780203810255
Subjects Arts
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Gorman, S. (2011). The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203810255

ABSTRACT

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has been commissioned by venues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Ireland. Although his productions generate a plethora of reviews, there is a deficit of material providing a critical and sustained engagement with his work. The aim of this book is to provide a critical survey of Maxwell’s work since 1992, including his early participation in Cook County Theater Department.

Touching upon the acting, production and rehearsal processes of NYC Player’s work, and Maxwell's representations of space, community, race, and gender, this volume provides scholars with an important overview of a key figure in contemporary drama.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|29 pages

Introduction: Opportunity Knocks

chapter 2|20 pages

Bad Acting on Purpose: Practising Intelligibility and Legitimacy on Stage

chapter 3|19 pages

Passionate Indifference: Cook County Theater Department

chapter 4|22 pages

‘I Got Balls, See?’ A Study of Working-Class Masculinity in the Plays of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

chapter 5|26 pages

Concert Hall Slash Sports Facility: The Anthropological Space of Richard Maxwell’s Theatre

chapter 6|14 pages

Conclusion: Inscrutability, Irony and Binary Assignations

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