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Reza Abdoh

By Hilton Als and Dominic Johnson and Charlie Fox and Tobi Haslett
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Over a brief, twelve-year career, Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh radically transformed American theatre. His hallucinatory, often nightmarish productions blend humour, song, and an unexpected spirituality to confront harsh political realities such as systemic racism, the AIDS crisis, sexual repression, genocide, and Middle Eastern conflict. The book offers an in-depth exploration of Abdoh's groundbreaking work through essays, interviews, conversations, scripts, and contemporary reviews.
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This richly illustrated catalogue is essential for enthusiasts of avant-garde theatre, students of political and cultural performance arts, and readers interested in radical artistic legacies challenging societal conventions.

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Profusely illustrated, Reza Abdoh is a major monograph on one of the most influential theater artists of the latter-20th century. The book contains new essays on Abdoh's works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, conversations with his friends and colleagues, scripts of Abdoh's plays, and contemporary reviews.

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Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theatre, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with humour, 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contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh's works in theatre, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, and conversations with his friends and colleagues, as well as scripts of his plays and contemporary reviews.

Reza Abdoh offers an insightful exploration into the legacy of a daring and visionary artist whose work continues to resonate powerfully today.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775745529

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 May 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 120 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Jennifer Krasinski
  • Edited by Negar Azimi
  • Edited by Tiffany Malakooti
  • Edited by Michael C. Vazquez
  • Contributions by Nick Mauss

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 2420g

Pages: 576

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Arts & Culture Charlie Fox Dominic Johnson Hilton Als Non-Fiction Tobi Haslett

About the Author

The Iranian director REZA ABDOH (1963-1995) was known for his wildly ambitious, experimental, and often confrontational theatrical productions. When he died of AIDS at the age of just thirty-two, he was already regarded as a crucial figure on the American avant-garde scene.

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