Disaster Capitalism : or Money Can't Buy You Love Three Plays by Rick Mitchell.
Title:
Disaster Capitalism : or Money Can't Buy You Love Three Plays by Rick Mitchell.
Author:
Mitchell, Rick.
ISBN:
9781841505787
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Series:
Playtext
Contents:
FrontCover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Catastrophe Everywhere: Apocalypse Theater for the Twenty-First Century -- The Plays -- Shadow Anthropology -- Through the Roof -- Celestial Flesh -- BackCover.
Abstract:
The book includes three full-length plays: Shadow Anthropology (a dark comedy about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan), Through the Roof (a Faustian trip through the social history of "natural" disaster in New Orleans), and Celestial Flesh (a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement, sacred sex, and CIA drug running in a Los Angeles Catholic Church). Placing the plays within an historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls "Apocalypse Theatre for the Twenty-First Century.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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