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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Plays One: Transformation, Masses Man Hoppla, We're Alive!

Plays One: Transformation, Masses Man Hoppla, We're Alive!

Toller, Ernst

Paperback

Series: Oberon Classics

Plays

ISBN10: 1840021950
ISBN13: 9781840021950
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Includes the plays Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive! Preface by Charles Wood.

Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism, yet his plays have not been available in English since the 1920s and '30s. He was also a revolutionary activist who experienced fully the unbearable cataclysms of his times: war, revolution, imprisonment, the chaos of Weimar life, Nazi persecution, exile and the Holocaust. His revolutionary intensity infuses these three innovative plays, all of which inspired landmark productions and substantially extended the language of theatricality. These stage-worthy new translations capture that spirit of artistic and political combustion and should help to restore Toller's rightful place in the modern repertoire.

Twenty-seven rarely seen production and design photographs are brought together here for the first time and, with the extensive supplementary material, they create a vivid sense of modern theatre in the making. Essential reading for the contemporary theatre student, scholar, spectator and practitioner.

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