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OverviewSarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, been nominated for a Tony Award for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Clean House and In the Next Room. Ruhl is a writer unafraid of the soul. She writes not about “this or that issue,” but “about being,” creating plays that ask “big questions about death, love, and how we should treat each other in this lifetime.” In this volume, Amy Muse situates Ruhl as an artist-thinker and organizes her work around its artistic and ethical concerns. Through a finely-grained account of each play, readers are guided through Ruhl’s early influences, the themes of intimacy, transcendence, and communion, and her inventive stagecraft to dramatize “moments of being” onstage. Enriched by essays from scholars Jill Stevenson, Thomas Butler, and Christina Dokou, an interview with directors Sarah Rasmussen and Hayley Finn, and a chronology of Ruhl’s life and work, this is a companionable guide for students of American drama and theatre studies. Amy Muse specializes in dramatic literature and performance studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department. She is the author of “Sarah Ruhl’s Sex Ed for Grownups” (Text & Presentation 2013) and essays on Romantic drama, intimate theatre, female Hamlets, and travel in Romantic Circles, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture & Criticism, Frontiers, and other journals. METHUEN DRAMA CRITICAL COMPANIONS Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA) Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Methuen Drama Weight: 0.277kg ISBN: 9781350147539ISBN 10: 1350147532 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 23 January 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1 What aesthetic form might consciousness take? Snowless The Lady with the Lap Dog and Anna Around the Neck Three Sisters Orlando Dear Elizabeth Coda 2 I like plays that have revelations in the moment, where emotions transform almost inexplicably Eurydice Demeter in the City Melancholy Play Scenes from Court Life or the whipping boy and his prince Coda 3 Getting in the same room is kind of the dream The Clean House Late: A Cowboy Song Dead Man's Cell Phone In the Next Room or the vibrator play Stage Kiss Coda 4 I'm interested in those more invisible terrains Passion Play The Oldest Boy For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday How to Transcend a Happy Marriage Coda 5 Directing Sarah Ruhl An interview with Sarah Rasmussen and Hayley Finn 6 Other Critical Perspectives Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play and Contemporary Expressions of Medieval Performance Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Arrested Dev-elopement: Myth-Understanding Father-Daughter Love in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice Christina Dokou, University of Athens, Greece. From Pontius Pilate to Peter Pan: Lightness in the Plays of Sarah Ruhl Thomas Butler, Eastern Kentucky University, USA. Chronology Notes and References Notes on Contributors Bibliography IndexReviewsA comprehensive survey of Ruhl's plays to date ... Provides valuable insight into Ruhl's unique theatricality and her ability to capture audiences and invite them into a work to experience the `soulfulness' at its heart. The volume concludes with three critical essays, a useful chronology of Ruhl's life and work, and detailed notes. * CHOICE * Author InformationAmy Muse is associate professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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