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<p> Edward Turk succeeds at giving us both a systematic and a personal view of current French theatre. As a keen observer and critic, he presents the subject with empathy and brio; as a seasoned professor, he shows with elegant efficiency how the French stage has opened itself--much more than might be expected--to formal experimentation and minority voices. In granting American readers this special view from the wings, Turk delivers a depiction that the French, too, will find revealing. --Emmanuel Wallon, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre/La Defense, and editor, Theatre en pieces, Le texte en eclats ; Europe, scenes peu communes ; and Theatre, fabrique d'Europe <br><p>

Paris modernists once revolutionized the world theatre, but what has become of French drama in the twenty-first-century era of microchips and multiculturalism? Edward Baron Turk, a lively writer with a deep knowledge of French culture, gives theatregoers and Francophiles insights into what's most resonant and provocative on the French stage today. His nuanced observations will surprise and illuminate. --Tom Sellar, Yale University Edward Turk succeeds at giving us both a systematic and a personal view of current French theatre. As a keen observer and critic, he presents the subject with empathy and brio; as a seasoned professor, he shows with elegant efficiency how the French stage has opened itself--much more than might be expected--to formal experimentation and minority voices. In granting American readers this special view from the wings, Turk delivers a depiction that the French, too, will find revealing. --Emmanuel Wallon, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre/La Defense, and editor, Theatre en pieces, Le texte en eclats; Europe, scenes peu communes; and Theatre, fabrique d'Europe

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Literary and film critic Edward Baron Turk is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and professor of French and film studies and John E. Burchard Professor of the Humanities at MIT. The author of Hollywood Diva: The Biography of Jeanette MacDonald and Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema, he covers the Avignon Festival for the French Review.

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