Postmodern Theatre

Dear Writer,

In this order, you are asked to write a Coursework .

You need to choose three to write from the 3 texts.

Each text choose one.

Mother Courage and Her Children:

http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/mothercourage/

Angels in America:

http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/angels/

Endgame:

http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/endgame/

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Answer this question please:

John Whitmore (Directing Postmodern Theatre) and Anne Fliotsos (Interpreting the Play Script) consider the following as distinct characteristics of postmodern theatre.

– Collage

– Atonality (lacking a tonal center)

– Nonlinearity

– Decenteredness

– Imbalance

– Skepticism

– Abstractness

– Ambiguity

– Serialization

– Stream-of-consciousness

– Self-referentiality

– Deconstruction

– Popular culture

– Prisms that reflect and refract; what you see is based on the angle of approach. Can provide you with a deep and complex, but ultimately incomplete view of the whole.

In light of this, find 1 example of the above (3 total) in each of the 3 texts we’ve read over the last week (Mother Courage and Her Children, Angels in America and Endgame). Be sure to use a separate convention each time and, as always, find specificity in your argument.