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Len Jenkin's Theatre
Robert J. Andreach
其他書名
Wonder and Heart
出版University Press of America, 2011
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / DramaPerforming Arts / GeneralPerforming Arts / Theater / GeneralPerforming Arts / Theater / Direction & ProductionPerforming Arts / Theater / History & CriticismPerforming Arts / Theater / PlaywritingPerforming Arts / Theater / Stagecraft & ScenographyPerforming Arts / Storytelling
ISBN07618532359780761853237
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JI-aQYrXHVIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart. Imagination creates wonder by transforming nature to suggest more than nature. Love engages the heart on the quest to experience the wonder, for though Jenkin is an experimental playwright, his plays are not abstruse symbols. They are tales that take salesmen and actresses, historical figures and fictional characters, through a Stein landscape and a Kafka story, pop culture, and recreated scenes from the Bible and The Canterbury Tales, The Aeneid, and Headlong Hall to an amusement park ride and a penal colony, a flophouse and a garden. Bodacious verbal and visual images build in power until they soar as pilgrims tell tales to pass the night while waiting to cross the river; Hawthorne, Sophie, and Melville on the beach hear the ever-encroaching kraken; and Margo Veil essays the roles that all questing mortals play in life.