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Vanishing Acts: Theater since the Sixties »
Authors: Gordon Rogoff
ISBN-13: 9780300087772, ISBN-10: 0300087772
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Gordon Rogoff
Book Synopsis
In this outstanding collection of critical writings, award-winning theater critic Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. Rogoff ranges widely across topics from acting and directing to Shakespeare productions and theater criticism. Along the way he offers discerning insights into the work of artists Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Lee J. Cobb, Vanessa Redgrave, and many others."
Variety - Pamela Renner
Thoughtful and provocative.
Table of Contents
| Preface | xi | |
| Acknowledgments | xv | |
| Acting and Directing | ||
| The Figure in the Carpet: Peter Brook and Erland Josephson | 3 | |
| E. B. on Acting: Eric Bentley | 6 | |
| The Low Points: The Wooster Group | 13 | |
| Buzz Words: Ping Chong | 16 | |
| Directorially Bound: Ingmar Bergman, Robert Wilson, and Others | 18 | |
| Post-Neo-Vaudeville: Bill Irwin and Barbara Cook | 21 | |
| Cinderella Double Take: Anne Bogart | 24 | |
| Future Lieder: John Kelly | 26 | |
| Power to the Actor: Donald Wolfit, Campbell Scott, and Others | 28 | |
| The Neutral Space: Judi Dench, Simon Callow, and Others | 33 | |
| Carnal Knowledge: Ariane Mnouchkine | 40 | |
| Ibsen, Wilson, and the Play of Time: Robert Wilson | 46 | |
| The Presence of Joe: Joseph Chaikin | 48 | |
| Playwriting | ||
| Transfer at Elysian Fields: Tennessee Williams | 59 | |
| Vienna Woulds: Arthur Schnitzler | 64 | |
| Harmed Play: Mac Wellman | 66 | |
| Coup de Lace: Joseph Kesselring | 68 | |
| Not Fear Itself: Franz Xaver Kroetz | 71 | |
| Les Liaisons Abstruse: Heiner Muller | 75 | |
| Comedy of Mannerisms: Somerset Maugham and S.N. Behrman | 78 | |
| Posing for Playboy: John Millington Synge | 81 | |
| Samish: Mike Nichols's Godot; Frederick Neumann's Worstward Ho | 83 | |
| All-Consuming and Condescending: Pam Gems | 87 | |
| Bound and Gagged: Neil Simon | 90 | |
| A House Is Not a Poem: Federico Garcia Lorca | 92 | |
| All My Plots: Arthur Miller | 94 | |
| Serving Two Masters: Carlo Goldoni and Cole Porter | 96 | |
| Half-Caste: Jean Racine and Tony Harrison | 100 | |
| Still in the Woods: Lee Blessing | 102 | |
| Party Games: Harold Pinter | 105 | |
| The Seductions of Cynicism: David Mamet | 108 | |
| Ahead of Himself: Larry Kramer | 111 | |
| Triumph of the Words: George Bernard Shaw | 113 | |
| The Fugitive Play: Tennessee Williams | 115 | |
| Lost Soul: Albert Innaurato | 120 | |
| Three-Inch Pickings: Charles Ludlam | 125 | |
| Anniversary Schmaltz: Maxwell Anderson | 126 | |
| Trip to Fanciful: Tina Howe | 129 | |
| Angels in America, Devils in the Wings: Tony Kushner | 132 | |
| Shakespeare and the Brits | ||
| British Theater: The Fight Against Situational Chat | 145 | |
| Neocolonial Puns and Games: The National Theatre of Great Britain | 151 | |
| Uneasy Lie the Crowns: Wilfred Lawson and Others | 154 | |
| Richard Unbeckoned: Joseph Papp in Central Park | 156 | |
| Et Al, Brute: Al Pacino | 159 | |
| The Abbey Theatre: Speechless at Last | 161 | |
| Out, Out, Loose Canon: The New York Shakespeare Festival | 162 | |
| Brevity Is the Soul of Grit: Dustin Hoffman | 165 | |
| Ardent Sex Change: Christopher Grabowski | 167 | |
| Cracking the Code: Hugh Whitemore | 169 | |
| Theater Mania: Peter Hall and Others | 172 | |
| Serious Money: Caryl Churchill | 176 | |
| Sublime Neglect: George Chapman and Others | 179 | |
| Hare Today: David Hare | 183 | |
| Playing with Ire: Alex Jennings, Peter O'Toole, and Mark Rylance | 185 | |
| Operas and Musicals | ||
| That True Phoenix, da Ponte: Lorenzo da Ponte | 191 | |
| Emotional Weather: Notes on Alban Berg's Theater | 200 | |
| Don Juan in Hell's Kitchen: Peter Sellars | 213 | |
| Out of the Woods: Stephen Sondheim | 215 | |
| Fats-uosity Triumphant: Nell Carter and Others | 217 | |
| Stratasphere: Teresa Stratas and Others | 220 | |
| Two Cheers for Booing: Bayreuth | 222 | |
| Cliff Notes: Robert Wilson and Others | 226 | |
| Ideas, Obits, and the Critical Act | ||
| The Management Game | 235 | |
| Geraldine Page | 245 | |
| The Birth of a Notion | 246 | |
| Cry God for Larry: Laurence Olivier | 249 | |
| Richard Hayes | 252 | |
| Theater Without Programs | 253 | |
| Othello's Occupation's Gone | 258 | |
| The Leader We Invented: Joseph Papp | 262 | |
| Did Dinosaurs Dream | 265 | |
| Jerzy Grotowski | 268 | |
| Endgames | ||
| Legacies and Their Discontents | 273 | |
| The Critic Vanishes | 283 | |
| Index | 293 |
Subjects
Entertainment
Theater Theater - History & Criticism
Entertainment Theater Theater - Reference
Nonfiction Entertainment Theater
Theater Theater - History & CriticismEntertainment
Theater Theater - ReferenceNonfiction
Entertainment Theater
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