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Hardcover Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio Book

ISBN: 0821411284

ISBN13: 9780821411285

Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio

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In Sight Unseen radio drama, a genre traditionally dismissed as popular culture, is celebrated as high art. The radio plays discussed here range from the conventional (John Arden's Pearl) to the docudramatic (David Rudkin's Cries from Casement), from the curtly conversational (Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache) to the virtually operatic (Robert Ferguson's Transfigured Night), testifying to radio drama's variety and...

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Captivating study of the advantages

of presenting drama in a radio format. This book examines plays by the mentioned playwrights that couldn't have achieved the same effects on stage. For example, a play exploring the mind of a woman who's had a stroke (we can't "see" what's real beyond what she tells us). Very thought-provoking. My main--really only--quibble with the text is that after lamenting that these radio plays are seldom heard/soon forgotten/underappreciated, the author neglects to include even one script. Bit of a tease, in my opinion.
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