J Chris Westgate
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Chris Westgate |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Westgate |
| SIGNATURE | WESTGATE J C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Boleros for the Disenchanted (review)
Reviewed by: Boleros for the Disenchanted J. Chris Westgate Boleros for the Disenchanted. By José Rivera. Directed by Carey Perloff. American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. 29 May 2009. In Boleros for the Disenchanted, José Rivera returns to his roots, personally and professionally. In earlier plays, Rivera included autobiographical elements of his Puerto Rican heritage, but he frequently subordinated them to sociopolitical concerns. Not so…
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (review)
Heartbreak House (review)
Toward a Rhetoric of Sociospatial Theatre: José Rivera's Marisol
José Rivera's Marisol offers social and spatial criticism of Ed Koch's New York City, in particular the campaign against the homeless during the 1980s. In so doing, the play undertakes what functions as a Brechtian defamiliarization of space for audiences to demonstrate how the urban landscape of New York City was central to the battle for social justice; and, more generally, to demonstrate how the social and the spatial are thoroughly imbricated…
Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography (review)
Reviewed by: Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography J. Chris Westgate Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography. By Doris Alexander. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005; pp. ix + 246. $39.95 cloth. Doris Alexander's Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays, her third book on the playwright, takes umbrage with the conflation of O'Neill's life and literature in recent biography. Never doubting that The Iceman C…
Waiting for Godot (review)
Waiting for Godot. By Samuel Beckett. American Conservatory Theater at the Geary Theater, San Francisco. 25 October 2003
A Doll's House (review)
Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama (review)
Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama explores the many intersections between "personal and private yearnings" and "the need for political and public change" in American theatre (28). Although these impulses have often been dichotomized, Ozieblo and López-Rodríguez convincingly argue that a dynamic interplay between the personal and political characterizes much of American culture, from the House Un-America…
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Waiting for Godot (review)
Waiting for Godot. By Samuel Beckett. American Conservatory Theater at the Geary Theater, San Francisco. 25 October 2003
A Doll's House (review)
Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama (review)
Staging a Cultural Paradigm: The Political and the Personal in American Drama explores the many intersections between "personal and private yearnings" and "the need for political and public change" in American theatre (28). Although these impulses have often been dichotomized, Ozieblo and López-Rodríguez convincingly argue that a dynamic interplay between the personal and political characterizes much of American culture, from the House Un-America…
Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography (review)
Reviewed by: Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography J. Chris Westgate Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography. By Doris Alexander. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005; pp. ix + 246. $39.95 cloth. Doris Alexander's Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays, her third book on the playwright, takes umbrage with the conflation of O'Neill's life and literature in recent biography. Never doubting that The Iceman C…
Heartbreak House (review)
Toward a Rhetoric of Sociospatial Theatre: José Rivera's Marisol
José Rivera's Marisol offers social and spatial criticism of Ed Koch's New York City, in particular the campaign against the homeless during the 1980s. In so doing, the play undertakes what functions as a Brechtian defamiliarization of space for audiences to demonstrate how the urban landscape of New York City was central to the battle for social justice; and, more generally, to demonstrate how the social and the spatial are thoroughly imbricated…
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (review)
Boleros for the Disenchanted (review)
Reviewed by: Boleros for the Disenchanted J. Chris Westgate Boleros for the Disenchanted. By José Rivera. Directed by Carey Perloff. American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. 29 May 2009. In Boleros for the Disenchanted, José Rivera returns to his roots, personally and professionally. In earlier plays, Rivera included autobiographical elements of his Puerto Rican heritage, but he frequently subordinated them to sociopolitical concerns. Not so…
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