Expressionist Texts

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PAJ Publications, 1986 - English drama - 220 pages
Contents: Oskar Kokoschka, Sphinx and Strawman ò August Stramm, Sancta Susanna ò Georg Kaiser, From Morn to Midnight ò Gottfried Benn, Ithaka ò Walter Hasenclever, The Son ò Ernst Toller, The Transfiguration ò Lothar Schreyer, Crucifixion

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Expressionist Texts
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Sphinx and Strawman
27
Sancta Susanna
37
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actor ADRIENNE Ahasuerus Anima arms August Stramm Bauhaus Berlin blood CASHIER CHERUBIM child CLEMENTIA comes cross dance dark DAUGHTER death door enters Ernst Toller eurhythmics everything Expressionism Expressionist acting Expressionist Texts Expressionist theatre eyes father feel FIFTH GENTLEMAN FIRDUSI FOURTH GENTLEMAN FOURTH MASK FRAULEIN FRIEDRICH FRIEND Georg Kaiser German give goes Gottfried Benn hall hands head heart hour human INSPECTOR Jürgen Fehling Kokoschka LADY laugh leave light live longer look Maid MANAGER Mel Gordon MISTRESS MOTHER Neo-Romantic never Oskar Kokoschka penitent form performance plays prison PROFESSOR RÖNNE Rubberman SALVATION LASS Sancta Susanna SCENE SCHEITEL Schreyer SECOND CLIMBER SECOND GENTLEMAN SECOND SOLDIER SISTER SKELETON soul speak stand stares STOUT GENTLEMAN Stramm Sturmbühne talk tell theatre theatrical THIRD GENTLEMAN thousand marks Toller TUCHMEYER voice Waiter Walter Hasenclever wander WIFE window woman word

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About the author (1986)

Melvin Irwin Gordon was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 18, 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's degree and a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University. He taught at N.Y.U. from 1975 to 1989. He also taught acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in Manhattan. He began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He wrote several books including Theatre of Fear and Horror: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962; Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin; Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946; and Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant. He also created and directed shows in San Francisco including The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber. He died from complications of renal failure on March 22, 2018 at the age of 71.

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TitleExpressionist Texts
Modernist Performance Series
Paj Publications
AuthorOskar Kokoschka
EditorMel Gordon
PublisherPAJ Publications, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 18, 2008
ISBN1555540120, 9781555540128
Length220 pages
  
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