The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

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Overview

In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogel's major plays-including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive, and The Baltimore Waltz-before turbaning attention to her influence upon other major American playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, and Quiara Alegría Hudes. Chapters explore Vogel's plays in chronological order, consider her early influences and offer detailed accounts of her work in performance. Enriched by an interview with Lynn Nottage and essays from scholars Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright.

By the time Paula Vogel made her Broadway debut with her 2017 Rebecca Taichman collaboration Indecent, she was already an accomplished playwright, with a Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive (1998) and two Obie Awards. She had also enjoyed a brilliant career as a professor at Brown and Yale with students such as Sarah Ruhl, a MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner, Pulitzer Prize winners Nilo Cruz, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and the only woman to win two Pulitzers for Drama, Lynn Nottage. Vogel's theatre draws upon Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and uses devices such as “defamiliarization” and “negative empathy” to challenge conventional definitions of protagonists and antagonists.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350251717
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/13/2023
Series: Critical Companions
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lee Brewer Jones is Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Early Life and Influences

2. Developing a Unique Voice

3. Building an International Reputation

4. The House of Paula Vogel

5. Indecent – And Broadway

6. Critical Perspectives
The Alchemy of Influence: Paula Vogel and Sarah Ruhl, Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Drawing New Circles: on Paula Vogel's Maieutics, Quiara Alegría Hudes's Broken Language and the Seeds of Boricuan Inspiration, Ana Fernández-Caparrós (University of Valencia, Spain)
"The Feminine Spirit That Really I Needed": Interview between Lee Brewer Jones and Lynn Nottage

Notes
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index

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