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Richard Foreman
"The spectator's question should not be, 'What does this play mean?' The question should be, 'In response to which of the world's possibilities and tensions is this play created?' That is its meaning."…
Gary Hill
"Each of his works is found to be singular and sweeps the general technique called video along in an adventure that renders it irreplaceable, but irreplaceable among other irreplaceables, other unique…
Last Operas and Plays
“To Carl Van Vechten’s 1949 selection of some of Stein’s most important and most produced plays, this reprint adds the essay Plays, in which Stein elaborates her notion of the play as…
The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes
This casebook gathers new writing about Maria Irene Fornes and a broad selection of earlier essays, reviews, and interviews. Along with Fornes’s own engaging commentary on playwriting and the creative…
The Anarchy of the Imagination - Interviews & Essays & Notes
“There is plenty in the book to substantiate Fassbinder’s position as the exemplary European filmmaker of his day, plenty to back up the claim staked by the films themselves for an engaged…
The Other American Drama
The first book to discuss Stein, Fornes, Kennedy, and Foreman as essential members of modern American theater rather than as curious fringe figures—with an afterword on new directions in the work…
Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
“This is the first book that attempts to link his work to trends and issues that cut across national boundaries and transcend immediate historical circumstances. Extremely well written, well considered,…
Portable Theater - American Literature & the Nineteenth Century Stage
“Alan Ackerman examines selected writers of the second half of the nineteenth century for their relationship as poets and fiction writers to the evolving theater of Edwin Forrest at one end and the…
History Plays - Vienna Lusthaus & The War to End War & The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador & Orestes & The Trojan Women - A Love Story & Time to Burn
A well established historian, Charles Mee is known in different circles as an avant-garde playwright whose caustic, anarchic plays are often based on historical events. Mee’s plays combine wickedly…
Madame La Morte and Other Plays - The Transparent Doll (La Poupiae transparente) & The Voice of Blood (La Voix du sang) & Pleasure (Voluptia) & The Painted Woman (La Femme peinte) & The Prowler (le Riadeur)
Rachilde was the pseudonym of Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), a woman of powerful personality who made her place at the very center of the Symbolist movement in fin-de-siècle France. Though relatively…
The Theatre of Images - Three Plays
Three plays - pandering to the Masses - A Misrepresentation by Richard Foreman & A Letter for Queen Victoria by Robert Wilson & The Red Horse Animation by Lee Breuer The three plays collected in The Theatre…
