TY - JOUR
T1 - Games in the backyard - Rape in the theatre
AU - Urian, Dan
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The play Games in the Backyard has been staged to great acclaim among audiences of Israeli youth. It deals with a case of gang rape tried in the Israeli courts which aroused wide public debate and also affected the play's creators. The suggested study takes us from the incident of rape to the play-makers' intentions; the preparatory process before writing, directing, designing and performing the play; and from there to the text itself and the changes that it underwent; and finally its reception process. The article goes from the play itself to several of the theoretical sociological components in play analysis; including the play's theatrical television genre as a possible reason for its success.
AB - The play Games in the Backyard has been staged to great acclaim among audiences of Israeli youth. It deals with a case of gang rape tried in the Israeli courts which aroused wide public debate and also affected the play's creators. The suggested study takes us from the incident of rape to the play-makers' intentions; the preparatory process before writing, directing, designing and performing the play; and from there to the text itself and the changes that it underwent; and finally its reception process. The article goes from the play itself to several of the theoretical sociological components in play analysis; including the play's theatrical television genre as a possible reason for its success.
KW - A masculine narrative
KW - Intertextuality
KW - Theatrical-television text
KW - Youth sub-culture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=61149439386&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10486800008568589
DO - 10.1080/10486800008568589
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AN - SCOPUS:61149439386
SN - 1048-6801
VL - 10
SP - 105
EP - 124
JO - Contemporary Theatre Review
JF - Contemporary Theatre Review
IS - 2
ER -
