Reza Abdoh
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Beschreibung
• First major publication about the Iranian-born theatrical visionary • A dazzling cult figure on the American avant garde, with a compelling story, who died far too young • Performance, AIDS, and activism in Los Angeles and New York in the 1980s and 1990s
Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with humor, song, and an unlikely spirituality. His productions addressed the bitter political realities of his time—the systemic devaluation of Black life, governmental indifference to the AIDS crisis, sexual repression, genocide in Europe and war in the Middle East—with harrowing eloquence. Just before his death he ordered that his plays should never be performed again. Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh’s works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, and conversations with his friends and colleagues, as well as scripts of his plays and contemporary reviews.
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Negar Azimi
Themen in »Reza Abdoh«
Theaterregisseur Reza Abdoh AIDS Iran