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- catalog abstract "Over seventy essays and reviews written by the author between 1980 and 1986.".
- catalog contributor b1844848.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "An Englishman in New York (Fifth row center) -- Here are the playwrights -- The auteur director: the avant-garde and the classics -- Shakespeare in extremis (The tempest) -- Serban under siege (Uncle Vanya) -- The premature death of modernism (Through the leaves; Laurie Anderson in concert) -- Expanding Einstein's universe (Einstein on the beach) -- Theaterphobia (The garden of earthly delights) -- Carmen without chorus, Chekhov without walls (La tragédie de Carmen; The seagull) -- A bottomless dream (A midsummer night's dream) -- Rumania, Rumania (Hamlet; The wild duck) -- Advanced machines (Hamletmachine) -- Viennese dreams (Vienna: Lusthaus) -- The century of directors (Great directors at work; Grotowski and his laboratory) -- The broadway musical -- Nostalgia glands (42nd Street) -- Musical into opera (Candide) -- Arguing with a tank (Dreamgirls) -- This "money-got, mechanic age" (Cats) -- Musicalized propaganda (La cage aux folles) -- ".
- catalog description "Over seventy essays and reviews written by the author between 1980 and 1986.".
- catalog description "Part I: Predecessors -- Strindberg: new light on a dark dramatist -- The two Americas of Bertolt Brecht -- The prodigal Clifford Odets -- The vitality of Harold Clurman -- Lee Strasberg: portraits of the master -- John Houseman: memoirs of a moonlighter -- Lillian Hellman: epilogue to anger -- Laurence Olivier: once more into the breach -- Part II: Productions -- Contemporary American playwrights: children of O'Neill -- Two couples (Talley's folly; Marie and Bruce) -- The play you're not allowed to hate (Children of a lesser God) -- Don't read this review! ('night Mother) -- Show and tell (Death of a salesman; Glengarry Glen Ross) -- Painless dentistry (Hurlyburly) -- The best of Broadway (Biloxi blues) -- Combating amnesia (The marriage of Bette and Boo) -- The Shepard enigma (A lie of the mind) -- Addressing a hostile audience (Aunt Dan and Lemon) -- Highballs and ballups (Rum and coke) -- A shaggy dog story (The house of blue leaves) -- Souls on ice (The iceman cometh) -- ".
- catalog description "Singing the set (Sunday in the park with George) -- Blurring the edges (Pacific overtures; La bohème) -- Droodling (The mystery of Edwin Drood) -- Advertising a dying industry (The Tony awards).".
- catalog description "The British conquest -- The triumph of mediocrity (Amadeus) -- Good and plenty (Plenty) -- The pleasure of a company (Nicholas Nickleby) -- The paradox of actors (Edmund Kean) -- Hippolytus can feel! (The real thing) -- Royal tourist attraction (Cyrano de Bergerac; Much ado about nothing) -- Olivier's Lear (King Lear) -- "The fascination of what's difficult" (Peter Hall's diaries) -- The infidelity play (Benefactors) -- The British have come! The British have come! -- Prospects from abroad -- Comparing theatrical resources (Peer Gynt) -- Festival fever (Avignon: Ankoku Butoh) -- The quest of Peter Brook (L'Os; Ubu roi; The Ik) -- Coming at history from two sides (Master Harold ... and the boys; Wielpole-Wielpole) -- The tragedies of apartheid (Born in the RSA) -- The Stratford dilemma (Waiting for Godot; A midsummer night's dream; Love's labour's lost) -- The classical avant-garde (Clymnestra; The seven deadly sins) -- Private views, public vistas (A private view) -- A Polish political fable (Cinders) -- An existential ballet (Crime and punishment) -- Jan Kott, super dramaturg (The theatre of essence) -- Part III: Positions -- Opinions and convictions -- Varieties of theatrical experience -- Boards versus artists -- The ant and the grasshopper -- Musical chairs -- Moonlighting -- Moonlighting II -- Liberty and liberties -- The post-modern blues (The post-modern aura) -- Snarls from the bedclothes -- The humanist and the artist.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 320 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0871132060".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press,".
- catalog subject "809.2 19".
- catalog subject "Drama.".
- catalog subject "PN1623 .B78 1987".
- catalog subject "Theater.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An Englishman in New York (Fifth row center) -- Here are the playwrights -- The auteur director: the avant-garde and the classics -- Shakespeare in extremis (The tempest) -- Serban under siege (Uncle Vanya) -- The premature death of modernism (Through the leaves; Laurie Anderson in concert) -- Expanding Einstein's universe (Einstein on the beach) -- Theaterphobia (The garden of earthly delights) -- Carmen without chorus, Chekhov without walls (La tragédie de Carmen; The seagull) -- A bottomless dream (A midsummer night's dream) -- Rumania, Rumania (Hamlet; The wild duck) -- Advanced machines (Hamletmachine) -- Viennese dreams (Vienna: Lusthaus) -- The century of directors (Great directors at work; Grotowski and his laboratory) -- The broadway musical -- Nostalgia glands (42nd Street) -- Musical into opera (Candide) -- Arguing with a tank (Dreamgirls) -- This "money-got, mechanic age" (Cats) -- Musicalized propaganda (La cage aux folles) -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: Predecessors -- Strindberg: new light on a dark dramatist -- The two Americas of Bertolt Brecht -- The prodigal Clifford Odets -- The vitality of Harold Clurman -- Lee Strasberg: portraits of the master -- John Houseman: memoirs of a moonlighter -- Lillian Hellman: epilogue to anger -- Laurence Olivier: once more into the breach -- Part II: Productions -- Contemporary American playwrights: children of O'Neill -- Two couples (Talley's folly; Marie and Bruce) -- The play you're not allowed to hate (Children of a lesser God) -- Don't read this review! ('night Mother) -- Show and tell (Death of a salesman; Glengarry Glen Ross) -- Painless dentistry (Hurlyburly) -- The best of Broadway (Biloxi blues) -- Combating amnesia (The marriage of Bette and Boo) -- The Shepard enigma (A lie of the mind) -- Addressing a hostile audience (Aunt Dan and Lemon) -- Highballs and ballups (Rum and coke) -- A shaggy dog story (The house of blue leaves) -- Souls on ice (The iceman cometh) -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Singing the set (Sunday in the park with George) -- Blurring the edges (Pacific overtures; La bohème) -- Droodling (The mystery of Edwin Drood) -- Advertising a dying industry (The Tony awards).".
- catalog tableOfContents "The British conquest -- The triumph of mediocrity (Amadeus) -- Good and plenty (Plenty) -- The pleasure of a company (Nicholas Nickleby) -- The paradox of actors (Edmund Kean) -- Hippolytus can feel! (The real thing) -- Royal tourist attraction (Cyrano de Bergerac; Much ado about nothing) -- Olivier's Lear (King Lear) -- "The fascination of what's difficult" (Peter Hall's diaries) -- The infidelity play (Benefactors) -- The British have come! The British have come! -- Prospects from abroad -- Comparing theatrical resources (Peer Gynt) -- Festival fever (Avignon: Ankoku Butoh) -- The quest of Peter Brook (L'Os; Ubu roi; The Ik) -- Coming at history from two sides (Master Harold ... and the boys; Wielpole-Wielpole) -- The tragedies of apartheid (Born in the RSA) -- The Stratford dilemma (Waiting for Godot; A midsummer night's dream; Love's labour's lost) -- The classical avant-garde (Clymnestra; The seven deadly sins) -- Private views, public vistas (A private view) -- A Polish political fable (Cinders) -- An existential ballet (Crime and punishment) -- Jan Kott, super dramaturg (The theatre of essence) -- Part III: Positions -- Opinions and convictions -- Varieties of theatrical experience -- Boards versus artists -- The ant and the grasshopper -- Musical chairs -- Moonlighting -- Moonlighting II -- Liberty and liberties -- The post-modern blues (The post-modern aura) -- Snarls from the bedclothes -- The humanist and the artist.".
- catalog title "Who needs theatre : dramatic opinions / Robert Brustein.".
- catalog type "text".