Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava. Foreword by Peter Sellars
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Richard Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric theatre in 1968. The theatre is currently in the historic St. Marks Church, where he rehearses and produced one of his new plays each year, each play performing for 16 weeks every winter.
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The opening essay, "Foundations For A Theatre," is the clearest and most linear statement to date of Richard Foreman's work, which re-considers the entire process of making theatre (from the formulation of a script to rehearsal to performance) and what kind of experience an evening of theatre may convey. No one is creating theatre like Richard Foreman, whose associative (and sometimes dissociative) writing process contrives to capture a truthful portrait of his own perception at work. In rehearsal, Foreman creates an environment rebelling against any mimetic presentation of everyday reality, which is a kind of shared dream. He uses every theatrical element at his disposal to surprise and dazzle the spectator, and bring awareness to our radical impulses before our intellects "understand" them (and change them into something else). Although his project sounds very cerebral, his theatre is very much about the senses, and his art grabs you on a gut level. The book includes several plays, though it might have been helpful to include a script without the production stage directions to help understand the way he generates a script. (A later book, MY HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER, does include this and it helps a great deal.) Also, more photographs and illustrations would support his essay on visual design and use of space. This artist is way ahead of his time, using theatre to address the process of perception itself rather than narrative thinking. The importance of this book, addressing this work to a general reader, may not be appreciated for quite some time.
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Radio Rick, Radio Richard, Miss Merriweather, Kate Manheim, President of the United States, Miss Universal Happiness, Estelle Merriweather, New York, Public Theater, Richard Foreman, Wooster Group, David Patrick Kelly, Hotel China, Joe Jones, Nobel Prize, Paradise Drive, Penguin Touquet, Performing Garage, Ron Vawter, Will Patton, Babette Mangolte, Gertrude Stein, Martha Swope, Rocco Sisto, Alfred North Whitehead New!
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My theater has always tried to spotlight the most elusive aspects of the experience of being human. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Radio Rick, Radio Richard, Miss Merriweather, Kate Manheim, President of the United States, Miss Universal Happiness, Estelle Merriweather, New York, Public Theater, Richard Foreman, Wooster Group, David Patrick Kelly, Hotel China, Joe Jones, Nobel Prize, Paradise Drive, Penguin Touquet, Performing Garage, Ron Vawter, Will Patton, Babette Mangolte, Gertrude Stein, Martha Swope, Rocco Sisto, Alfred North Whitehead New!
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- Richard Foreman: Plays and Manifestos by Kate Davy in Back Matter
- Die Fledermaus by Strauss in Back Matter
- War and peace : a novel by Count Leo Tolstoy (Modern Library Giants, 1.1) by Leo Tolstoy on page 122
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 122
- Lee Ann: The Story of a Vietnamese-American Girl by Tricia Brown in Front Matter
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- Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain on page 71, and Back Matter
- Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain on page 71, and page 358
- What is Theatre?: An Introduction and Exploration by John Brown on page 142
- Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Criticism) by Dorothea Kehler on page 487
- The Other American Drama (PAJ Books) by Professor Marc Robinson in Back Matter
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