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Passionate Amateurs

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Passionate Amateurs

By Nicholas Ridout

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About the book

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theatre: the story of a romantic attachment to theatre's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theatre - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is ...Show more

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9780472036332

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Passionate Amateurs

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Paperback

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