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Performing age in modern drama

Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes.

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Performing age in modern drama

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing age in modern drama/ by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb.
Author:	Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US : : 2016.,
Description:	ix, 202 p. :digital ;23 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Introduction -- 1. Classics of Modern Drama -- 2. Contemporary Memory Plays -- 3. Contemporary Memory Plays II -- 4. The Continuum of Age -- 5. The Fullness of Self -- Bibliography.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Age in the performing arts. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50169-1
ISBN:	9781137501691

Performing age in modern drama
Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes.

Performing age in modern drama[electronic resource] /by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - ix, 202 p. :digital ;23 cm.

Introduction -- 1. Classics of Modern Drama -- 2. Contemporary Memory Plays -- 3. Contemporary Memory Plays II -- 4. The Continuum of Age -- 5. The Fullness of Self -- Bibliography.

This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theatre groups. Act your age. This common admonition provides the springboard for this study, which rests on the premise that age is performative in nature, and that issues of age and performance crystallize in the theatre. Dramatic conventions include characters who change ages from one moment to the next, overtly demonstrating on stage the reiterated actions that create a performative illusion of stable age. Moreover, directors regularly cast actors in these plays against their chronological ages. Lipscomb contends that while the plays reflect varying attitudes toward performing age, as a whole they reveal a longing for an ageless self, a desire to present a consistent, unified identity. The works mirror prevailing social perceptions of the aging process as well as the tension between chronological age, physiological age, and cultural constructions of age.

ISBN: 9781137501691

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-50169-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1973625
Age in the performing arts.

LC Class. No.: PN1590.A34 / L57 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 790.2

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