Cole Playwrights in Rehearsal

The Seduction of Company
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-67689-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major playwrights of our time, recounts her participation in rehearsal with Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Susan Letzler

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Sam Shepard in Rehearsal: Curse of the Starving Class
2 David Rabe in Rehearsal: A Question of Mercy
3 Elizabeth Egloff in Rehearsal: The Devils
4 Suzan-Lori Parks in Rehearsal: In The Blood and Topdog/Underdog
5 Tony Kushner in Rehearsal: "It's an Undoing World" and Terminating.
6 Arthur Miller in Rehearsal: The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and I Can't Remember Anything 7 Maria Irene Fornes in Rehearsal: The Summer in Gossensass
8 Jean-Claude van Itallie in Rehearsal: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Letzler Cole is Professor of English and Director of the Drama Concentration at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. She is the author of Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden World (Routledge) and The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence.