Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: AND It Just Stopped: Two plays

Stephen Sewell

ISBN 10: 086819817X / ISBN 13: 9780868198170

Published by Currency Press Pty Ltd, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: AND It Just Stopped: Two plays
• Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 086819817X
• ISBN 13: 9780868198170
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 340.2 grams

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Synopsis

A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?

Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11. With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero. Stephen Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism? What happens when the Land of the Free makes such uncompromising statements as: 'You're either with us or against us'?

About the Author

Stephen Sewell is one of Australia's most experienced and prominent writers, and his writing has won many awards. As a playwright, he is well-known for his violently political dramas such as Traitors, Welcome the Bright World and The Blind Giant is Dancing. Other playwriting credits include The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea, Dust, The Garden of Granddaughters, The Sick Room, The Secret Death of Salvador Dali and Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon. His screenwriting credits include The Boys (winner of 1998 AFI for Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source), Sisters and Lost Things. Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America-A Drama in Thirty Scenes was first produced by Playbox in association with the State Theatre Company of South Australia in 2003. It has had much-lauded productions overseas, including London, Germany, Edinburgh and New York. It has won more awards than any Australian play in history. It Just Stopped was produced by Malthouse Theatre and Company B Belvoir in 2006.