Overview

Disaster capitalism is an increasingly popular critical paradigm for contextualizing and understanding life in the twenty-first century. This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US 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. Placing the plays in historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls “Apocalypse Theater for the Twenty-First Century.”

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Funny!Provocative! Stunningly poignant! Rick Mitchell is a great American playwright. Edward James Olmos --Edward James Olmos (10/19/2011)

Funny! Provocative! Stunningly poignant! Rick Mitchell is a great American playwright. --Edward James Olmos

Funny! Provocative! Stunningly poignant! Rick Mitchell is a great American playwright. --Edward James Olmos<br><br>

Author Information

Rick Mitchell, who lives in Los Angeles, has written fifteen plays, as well as numerous scholarly and creative works for leading theatre and literary journals. He teaches playwriting, drama, and performance in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge.

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