Programming Theater History: The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco

ISBN-13: 9780415516693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 210 str.

Herbert Blau

Opis

Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952. Over the course of the next 13 years and its 100 or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, and various unknown others. Most of the productions were accompanied by a concise programme note by Blau. These documents now comprise a critique of the modern theatre. This book curates these notes, with a selection of the Workshop's incrementally artful, alluring programme covers.

Spis treści

Introduction, Elin Diamond; Chapter 1 A Loft, in the Early Days; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Coming Up the Ramp; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Alienation and the Absurd; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Reason Not the Need; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Mixed Blessings and the Sorcery of Persuasion; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Home Stretch; Chapter thewinding The Winding Sheet; Index;

O autorze

Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA. He has also had a parallel career in the theater, as co-founder and co-director of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, then co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York, and as artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. His publications include The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater (2002), Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (1988), Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (2004), As If: An Autobiography (Volume 1 2012), and Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (2011).