Liberté, Fraternité, Corbusier
An Interview with Alex Timbers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14996839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Savran (David Savran is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century American theatre, popular culture, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, most recently, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class (University of Michigan Press, 2009), the winner of the 2010 Joe A. Callaway Book Prize. He has served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, is Distinguished Professor of Theatre, and holds the..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 39-53 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00023 |
| OpenAlex | W1973051712 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 1 |
Under the artistic direction of Alex Timbers, Les Freres Corbusier has carved out a niche for itself as a purveyor of an anarchic, hyper-literate variety of what Timbers calls post-ironic theatre, an “aggressively visceral theatre combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor, and rigorous academic research.”
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |