-My Dinner with Andre- is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As Andre recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more than...
-My Dinner with Andre- is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide ...
Wallace Shawn usually appears in our mind's eye as the consummate eccentric actor: the shy literature teacher in Clueless, the diabolically rational villain in The Princess Bride, or as the eponymous protagonist of Vanya on 42nd Street. This title offers a personal look into the life and literary work of this man.
Wallace Shawn usually appears in our mind's eye as the consummate eccentric actor: the shy literature teacher in Clueless, the diabolically rational v...
Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind. O Magazine
In these beautiful essays, Wallace Shawn takes us on a revelatory journey in which the personal and political become one.
Whether writing about the genesis of his plays, such as Aunt Dan and Lemon; discussing how the privileged world of arts and letters takes for granted the work of the unobtrusives, the people who serve...
Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, colle...
"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at seventy-two, still comes across as precocious--probably because we resent him flagging our complacent complicity in all the world's ills."--Variety
"The play stops, but has no ending. It is for us to try to answer its bleak questions, to see what it might mean to be undeluded."--The Guardian
Gathering around a table at the Talk House, an old haunt, a group of friends and theatre...
"Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this imp...
