{"title":"Amy Muse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Muse\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into contemporary arts and culture, with a particular focus on theatre and dramatic arts. Her work delves deeply into the nuances of performance, playwrights, and the evolving landscape of modern drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis and richly detailed studies that illuminate the creative processes behind influential theatrical works. Muse’s writing is essential for anyone interested in understanding the intersections of culture and performance in today’s artistic world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-drama-and-theatre-of-annie-baker-by-amy-muse-9781350320017","title":"The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first book-length study of \u003cem\u003eAnnie Baker\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur “genius” grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker’s plays and other work. These include \u003cem\u003eThe Flick, John, The Antipodes\u003c\/em\u003e, the Shirley Vermont plays, and her adaptation of \u003cem\u003eUncle Vanya\u003c\/em\u003e. Muse illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes and issues by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough close discussions of Baker’s work, this book immerses readers in her use of everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by a foreword from Baker’s former professor, playwright Mac Wellman, as well as essays by four scholars, Thomas Butler, Jeanmarie Higgins, Katherine Weiss, and Harrison Schmidt, this is a companionable guide for students of American literature and theatre studies, which deepens their knowledge and appreciation of Baker’s dramatic invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuse argues that Baker is finely attuned to the language of the everyday: imperfect, halting, marked with unexpressed desires, banalities, and silence. Called “antitheatrical,” these plays draw us back to the essence of theatre: space, time, and story, sitting with others in real time, witnessing the dramatic in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Baker’s revolution for the stage has been to slow it down and bring us all into the mystery and pleasure of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471758475500,"sku":"9781350320017","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350320017-the-drama-and-theatre-of-annie-baker.jpg?v=1775252680"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/amy-muse.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}