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Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist.
Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde's comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists -including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn Replay reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.
Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Georg Büchner
Woyzeck
Notable Productions and Replays
PART ONE: "You can be better!"
1. Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
Replays
Hedda Gabler
Replays
2. George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
Replays
3. Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
Replays
4. Harley Granville Barker
The Voysey Inheritance
Replays
A Farewell to the Theatre
Replays
5. Terence Rattigan
The Winslow Boy
Replays
The Browning Version
Replays
The Sleeping Prince
Replays
6. Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Replays
7. Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
Replays
PART TWO: "Nothing to be done."
8. August Strindberg
Miss Julie
Replays
The Dance of Death
Replays
9. Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Replays
10. Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Replays
Three Sisters
Replays
Composite Chekhov
11. Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Replays
12. Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Replays
13. Eugene Ionesco
The Chairs
Replays
14. Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Replays
The prison productions
CONCLUSION
Alphabetical Listing of Plays and Productions
Index
