Radio Free Stein

Returns us to Gertrude Steins theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Steins plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Steins theater and proposes that radio, when approached both historically and phenomenologically, offers technical solutions to her texts unique challenges. Adam J. Frank documents the collaborative project of staging Steins early plays and offers new critical interpretations of these lesser-known works. Radio Free Stein grapples with her innovative theater poetics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: sound and media studies, affect and object relations theory, linguistic performativity, theater scholarship, and music composition.