188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere Smith, Peter Hall, Wallace Shawn, Frank Rich, Simon Callow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Leveaux, Adrian Lester, Nicholas Hytner, Paul Scofield and Robert Brustein. Ever since the introduction of the... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. NICHOLAS HYTNER 2. WALLACE SHAWN 3. SIMON CALLOW 4. MARTHA LAVEY 5. FRANK RICH 6. PETER PARNELL 7. RICHARD MONETTE 8. JULIE TAYMOR 9. MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL 10. DAVID LEVEAUX 11. MICHAEL KAHN 12. ADRIAN LESTER 13. PETER HALL 14. PATRICK MARBER 15. DREW HODGES 16. GORDON DAVIDSON 17. LINDA EMOND 18. ROBERT BRUSTEIN 19. PAUL SCOFIELD 20. RICHARD EYRE 21. ANNA DEAVERE SMITH 22. ROBERT FALLS 23. MEL KENYON 24. TONY KUSHNER Index
Biography
Anne Nicholson Weber was trained in law and is married to a Chicago playwright. This is her first book on theatre.
"Upstaged offers readers informal and acessible dialogues on issues of utmost consequence to performance studies. ...Weber's impressive collection of interviews offers a valuable look into theatre's current trajectories as artists seek ways to have the theatre be, as Julie Taymor says, 'the sensation of life being breathed into an object by the addition of human imagination.'" --The Drama Review
