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The Drama is Coming Now: The Theater Criticism of Richard Gilman, 1961-1991 »
Authors: Richard Gilman, Bert Cardullo
ISBN-13: 9780300100464, ISBN-10: 0300100469
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Richard Gilman
Richard Gilman is emeritus professor in the Yale School of Drama. He is the author of six books and hundreds of reviews and essays.
Book Synopsis
In this collection of insightful writings, one of America’s finest drama critics chronicles thirty years of American theater history. Richard Gilman illuminates a period of dynamic change in theater through wide-ranging and provocative essays, profiles, and book reviews that reveal not only his sense of cultural mission but also his love of good art.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| About Richard Gilman | ||
| Pt. I | Essays and articles | |
| The drama is coming now | 3 | |
| British theater : kinky, arrogant, and frankly magnificent | 16 | |
| Growing out of the sixties | 24 | |
| Broadway critics meet Uncle Vanya | 35 | |
| The new German playwrights : Franz Xaver Kroetz | 44 | |
| How the new theatrical directors are upstaging the playwright | 56 | |
| Out goes absurdism - in comes the new naturalism | 67 | |
| The new American playwrights : Sam Shepard | 74 | |
| Pt. II | Production criticism | |
| Wilder's Plays for Bleecker Street | 93 | |
| Kingsley's Night life | 95 | |
| O'Neill's Desire under the elms and Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois | 98 | |
| Inge's Natural affection | 99 | |
| Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie | 102 | |
| Hansberry's The sign in Sidney Brustein's window | 104 | |
| Lowell's The old glory | 105 | |
| Miller's Incident at Vichy | 107 | |
| O'Neill's Hughie | 109 | |
| Miller's A view from the bridge | 111 | |
| Baldwin's The amen corner | 112 | |
| Inge's Where's daddy? | 113 | |
| Albee's A delicate balance | 114 | |
| Terry's Viet rock and van Itallie's America hurrah | 116 | |
| Lowell's Prometheus bound | 118 | |
| The living theatre on tour | 119 | |
| The performance group's Commune | 125 | |
| Chaikin's Tourists and refugees no. 2 and Hellman's The little foxes | 130 | |
| Hwang's The dance and the railroad and Family devotions | 133 | |
| Fuller's A soldier's play | 136 | |
| Guare's Lydie Breeze and Shepard's The unseen hand | 137 | |
| Miller's A view from the bridge | 140 | |
| Norman's 'Night, mother | 142 | |
| Foreman's Egyptology | 144 | |
| Durrenmatt's The physicists | 147 | |
| Brecht's Baal and The exception and the rule | 149 | |
| Grass's The plebians rehearse the uprising and docudrama | 150 | |
| Brecht's The Caucasian chalk circle | 154 | |
| Brecht's Galileo | 155 | |
| Buchner's Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena | 157 | |
| Brecht's The threepenny opera : preview | 159 | |
| Chekhov's The seagull and Ostrovsky's The storm | 163 | |
| Chekhov's The three sisters | 166 | |
| Chekhov's Ivanov | 168 | |
| Strindberg's The father | 169 | |
| Ibsen's Peer Gynt | 172 | |
| Ibsen's When we dead awaken | 174 | |
| Ibsen's Ghosts | 176 | |
| Arrabal's The automobile graveyard | 179 | |
| Ghelderode's Hop, Signor! | 182 | |
| Anouilh's Traveller without luggage | 184 | |
| Moliere's Tartuffe | 186 | |
| Anouilh's Colombe | 187 | |
| Sartre's The condemned of Altona | 188 | |
| Moliere's The misanthrope | 189 | |
| Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet | 192 | |
| Gielgud's Hamlet | 195 | |
| American Shakespeare Festival's Richard III and Much ado about nothing | 197 | |
| New York Shakespeare Festival's Othello | 198 | |
| Lincoln Center's The changeling | 199 | |
| The Guthrie's Richard III and The way of the world | 201 | |
| Lincoln Center's The country wife | 202 | |
| Lincoln Center's The alchemist | 203 | |
| APA's The school for scandal | 205 | |
| Breuer's The tempest | 206 | |
| Roundabout Theater's Misalliance | 210 | |
| Royal Shakespeare Company's All's well that ends well | 211 | |
| Osborne's Luther | 214 | |
| Wesker's Chips with everything | 217 | |
| Pinter's The room and A slight ache | 220 | |
| Wesker's The kitchen | 221 | |
| Pinter's The homecoming | 223 | |
| Beckett's Rockaby | 225 | |
| Churchill's Cloud nine | 227 | |
| Fugard's "Master Harold" ... and the boys | 229 | |
| Pinter's The hothouse | 231 | |
| Hare's Plenty | 233 | |
| Churchill's Top girls | 235 | |
| Beckett's Ohio impromptu, catastrophe, and What where | 237 | |
| Pt. III | Book reviews | |
| George Steiner's The death of tragedy | 241 | |
| Lionel Abel's Metatheatre | 244 | |
| Eugene Ionesco's Notes and counter notes | 250 | |
| Eric Bentley's The life of the drama and Robert Brustein's The theatre of revolt | 252 | |
| Herbert Blau's The impossible theater | 256 | |
| Jerzy Grotowski's Towards a poor theatre | 259 | |
| Martin Esslin's The peopled wound : the work of Harold Pinter | 262 | |
| Bertolt Brecht : collected plays, edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett | 265 | |
| The letters of Sean O'Casey, edited by David Krause | 268 | |
| Henrik Ibsen : the complete major prose plays, translated and introduced by Rolf Fjelde | 272 | |
| Margaret Brenman-Gibson's Clifford Odets : American playwright, the years from 1906 to 1940 | 279 | |
| Arthur Miller's Timebends : a life | 282 | |
| Pt. IV | Profiles and legacies | |
| Bertolt Brecht once again | 291 | |
| Appraising Stanislavsky's legacy today | 294 | |
| Jest, satire, irony, and deeper meaning : thirty years of off-Broadway | 298 | |
| Jean Genet, 1910-1986 | 305 | |
| Eric Bentley ... and me | 307 | |
| "A man misunderstood in the midst of fame" : Henrik Ibsen | 312 | |
| The second coming of Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983 | 318 | |
| Joseph Chaikin : seeking the words to recapture a past and shape a future | 328 |
Subjects
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Theater Theater - History & Criticism
Entertainment Theater Theater - Reference
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Theater Theater - History & CriticismEntertainment
Theater Theater - ReferenceNonfiction
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