{"product_id":"theaters-of-the-everyday-9780810136663","title":"Theaters of the Everyday","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theatre became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGallagher-Ross’s writing is lucid, supple, and precise, and his prose gives pleasure in itself. He does an excellent job of placing each of his subjects in its literary\/theatrical context, and it is impressive that he is able to pursue his themes across such a diverse group of performance practitioners. A marvelous book.\"\" - Philip Auslander, author of \u003ci\u003eLiveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"This is an elegantly written and philosophically rich study of American theater artists, and one that productively uncovers an avant-garde attentiveness to the everyday concealed by the overly broad mantle of realism.\"\" - Laura Levin, author of \u003ci\u003ePerforming Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577528455511,"sku":"9780810136663","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810136663.jpg?v=1746095714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theaters-of-the-everyday-9780810136663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}