Volltext verfügbar nach Anmeldung bzw. im Campus-Netz.
Shepard's Buried Child Promotes Off-Broadway Theater.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3
Online
Nachschlagewerk
Zugriff:
Sam Shepard has been called the first totally postmodern voice in American drama, largely because of the aggressively experimental nature of his early work, a series of short one-act plays relying on collage and fantasy rather than straightforward narrative or coherent characterizations. Curse of the Starving Class (pb. 1976) initiated a new direction in Shepard’s work, inaugurating a series of plays—including Buried Child (pr. 1978), True West (pr. 1980), Fool for Love (pr., pb. 1983), and A Lie of the Mind (pr. 1985)—concerned with explorations of domestic and family life, in contrast to his earlier focus on characters who were loners. Unlike the experimental variations on popular genres, such as science fiction, Westerns, or rock operas, that typified the earlier plays, these later works, despite their sometimes expressionistic exaggerations, feature realistic, even naturalistic, settings and relatively realistic characters. Shepard had already confessed in 1974 that he would “like to try a whole different way of writing now, which is very stark and not so flashy and not full of a lot of mythic figures and everything, and try to scrape it down to the bone as much as possible.”
Titel: |
Shepard's Buried Child Promotes Off-Broadway Theater.
|
---|---|
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nelles, William |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
Schlagwort: |
|
Sonstiges: |
|