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dc.contributor.authorZavros, Demetris
dc.contributor.editorRodosthenous, George
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-19T15:31:59Z
dc.date.available2019-06-19T15:31:59Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-15
dc.identifier.citationZavros, D. (2017) London Road: the ‘irruption of the real’ and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical, in Rodosthenous, G. (Ed.) Twenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen. London: Routledge, pp. 212-229.en
dc.identifier.isbn9781138648906en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315626123en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/622456
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Twenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315626123 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractThe use of documentary material appeared in musical theatre at least as far back as Joan Littlewood's Oh! What a Lovely War, but it was not until London Road when the potential for a more experimental approach to the 'setting' of verbatim material was used in musical theatre. This chapter offers a slightly alternative perspective into the performance based on the belief that 'the reworking of speech into sung tunes' does not signal an absence as much as an 'irruption of the real' as discussed by Lehmann. It compares the stage and film versions of the musical in relation to their contiguity to the 'real' vs a utopian sensibility that accompanies the more traditionally escapist approaches to the film musical. The film audience becomes less able to viscerally and experientially appreciate the connection between the original and the aesthetic reconstitution that Lehmann so profoundly connects to the 'irruption of the real' in performance.en
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/Twenty-First-Century-Musicals-From-Stage-to-Screen-1st-Edition/Rodosthenous/p/book/9781138648890en
dc.subjectVerbatim musicalen
dc.titleLondon Road: the ‘irruption of the real’ and haunting utopias in the verbatim musicalen
dc.typeChapter in booken
dc.date.updated2019-06-10T14:40:08Z
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW190619DZen
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-06-19en
dc.source.booktitleTwenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen
dc.source.beginpage212
dc.source.endpage229
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