1st Edition

Flash and Crash Days Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period

By David George Copyright 2000
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights, and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 60s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Gerald Thomas and the Postmodernist Theater in Brazil Chapter 2: Women Writers and the Quest for Identity: From Fiction into Playwriting Chapter 3: General Considerations on Scholarship, Playwriting, and Theater Companies ; Afterword

Biography

David George