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Playwrights Before the Fall

Playwrights Before the Fall

Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution
Daniel Gerould (Editor)
April 2010
Trade Paperback · 300 Pages
$20.00 U.S. · $23.00 CAN
ISBN 9780979057083
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
 

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Description

The first multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays to deal with the fall of Communism. Includes: Portrait by Slawomir Mrozek (Poland); Chickenhead by György Spiró (Hungary); Military Secret by Dušan Jovanovic (Slovenia); Horses at the Window by Matei Visniec (Romania); and Sorrow, Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit by Karel Steigerwald (Czechoslovakia).

About the Author

Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; editor, Slavic and East European Performance; editor, Routledge Harwood Polish and East European Theatre Archive; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, and translations of Polish and Russian drama.