Английская Википедия:A List
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Italic title A List is a play by American writer Gertrude Stein, written in 1923 and first published in Operas and Plays in 1932.[1] It is structured in six parts, each labeled as a numbered or alphabetized "List," and has seven characters: Martha, Maryas, Marius, Mabel, Mary, Martin, and May. There are no explicit stage directions, but names in the side text are frequently joined with an ampersand or the word "and."[2] Stein said that the play was based on Avery Hopwood's play Our Little Wife (1916).[3]
Synopsis
The play does not contain an easily discernible plot. However, pairings of characters and the accumulation of new characters suggest strained relationships between Martha and Maryas and between Mabel and Marius, and later a furtive relationship between Maryras and Mary. The language of marriage and separation, and of knowledge and travel, is frequently invoked.[4] Many allusions, including those to mountains, cows, and baskets, tie A List to other works by Stein,[5] as do techniques of Punning, repetition, and listing.[6][7][8]
Analysis
A List is considered to fall under the category of Stein's landscape plays.[9] In her lecture "Plays," Stein excerpts the play following an explanation of syncopated emotions:
Astrid Lorange analyzes Stein's landscape label as "a moment of performative definition, from which a particular kind of attention emerges: an attention to the relation of objects and events in a space of time."[10] Jane Palatini Bowers modifies the concept to further emphasize the topographical dimension. In her analysis of A List, she focuses on Stein's spatial play of language on the page itself, calling it a "lang-scape".[11]
Stein's strategies in the play include what Daniela Miranda identify as those she uses throughout her oeuvre "to construct the continuous present—recreation, using everything, insistence, and beginning again and again" and that "ultimately lead to a destabilization of normative time by denying the reader the possibility of closure, progress, and intelligibility."[12] Miranda's account extends the presentation of queerness from the content of the play to its structure as well.
Performance history
Student theatre company Cap & Bells mounted A List at Williams College in December 2016.[13]
No performances are listed in the appendices of Sarah Bay-Cheng's Mama Dada.[14]
Radio Free Stein workshopped the play in Amsterdam on August 12, 2017.[15]
Muhlenberg College Dept of Theater & Dance produced "A List" in April 2021, directed by James Peck and featuring Molly Menner as Martha and Savannah Connelly as Maryas.[16]
Further reading
- Ryan, Betsy Alayne. 1984. Gertrude Stein's Theatre of the Absolute. Theater and Dramatic Studies Ser., 21. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Stein, Gertrude. 1932. Operas and Plays. Barrytown NY: Station Hill Arts, 1998. Шаблон:ISBN.
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