Disaster capitalism : or money can't buy you love : three plays /
The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of "natural" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Intellect,
2011
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| Series: | Playtext series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of "natural" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church). Placing the plays within an historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls "Apocalypse Theatre for the Twenty-First Century. & qu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781841505787 1841505781 1841504300 9781841504308 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
