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Are plays proper literature? | David Jays

The collaborative and transient nature of theatre clearly spooks the gatekeepers of ‘real literature’. It shouldn’t Long before I became a dedicated follower of theatre, I read plays. I’d come home from the library with handfuls of blue-spined Methuen modern classics, black-spined Penguin volumes of Ibsen and Chekhov, note-spattered editions of Jacobean tragedy and Restoration drama.

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Literature causes problems in ‘The Metal Children’

An author can’t control the way people react to their work. Such is the dilemma faced by a depressed writer of young adult fiction in the new Adam Rapp drama, “The Metal Children,” now performing off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in a surreal, murky but intelligent production.

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A culture of exchange or elitism?

Perched on the stage of Al Hakawati, Jerusalem’s largest theatre, four authors from the Palestine Festival of Literature shared turns reading excerpts from their texts.

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The Salon des Refusés

As TN readers will know, the judges of this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards declined to shortlist any plays, sparking a debate on whether plays are proper literature.

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The Salon des Refusés

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Review: Crime and Punishment

The Stork Theatre’s production of Crime and Punishment (in fact, its entire oeuvre) is a reversal of the question that has recently so excited some of us in the theatre world - to wit, whether plays are proper literature.

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Review: Crime and Punishment

The Stork Theatre’s production of Crime and Punishment (in fact, its entire oeuvre) is a reversal of the question that has recently so excited some of us in the theatre world - to wit, whether plays are proper literature.

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Review: Crime and Punishment

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Review: Crime and Punishment

The Stork Theatre’s production of Crime and Punishment (in fact, its entire oeuvre) is a reversal of the question that has recently so excited some of us in the theatre world - to wit, whether plays are proper literature. Rather, it raises the question of whether literature can be proper theatre. To be honest, as someone who prefers to think of categories as guides rather than as lead-lined boxes

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WDAM - Channel 7 - Serving Hattiesburg, Laurel and the Pine BeltU.S.M. art collection at Jewish museum

HATTIESBURG, MS (THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI) – A prominent museum devoted to the preservation and promotion of art and Jewish culture is hosting an exhibition featuring the work of “Curious George” creators Margret and H.A.

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WDAM - Channel 7 - Serving Hattiesburg, Laurel and the Pine BeltU.S.M. art collection at Jewish museum

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Female Researchers Paid Less than Males: Study

The precise reasons for the discrepancy remain a mystery, researchers report. Arts - Mystery - Literature - Theatre - Dinner Theatre

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Female Researchers Paid Less than Males: Study

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Event of the Week: Festival of Sacred Arts (Iceland Review)

The Festival of Sacred Arts 2010 will be ongoing in Hallgrímskirkja church during Easter, from March 28 to Sunday, April 11. This biannual festival of sacred arts focuses on the spiritual in the arts in a varied and ambitious program, embracing many forms of sacred art as portrayed in music, visual art, theatre, dance and literature.

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