Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780521400954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 236 str.

Brenda Murphy

Opis

This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan. Their intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 until 1960. The production of A Streetcar Named Desire established Williams as America's greatest playwright and Kazan as its most important director; together they created some of the most influential theatrical events of the post-war era. In this book Brenda Murphy analyses this artistic partnership and the plays and theatrical techniques the artists developed collaboratively in their productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth. In addition, Murphy suggests alternative ways to examine the working relationship between playwright and director which can be applied to other practitioners in twentieth-century drama. The book contains numerous illustrations from important productions.

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: the aesthetic matrix; 2. Subject and object: A Streetcar Named Desire; 3. Realism and fantasy: Camino Real; 4. Presentation and representation: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 5. Realism and metatheatre: Sweet Bird of Youth; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.