The lively ART : a treasury of criticism, commentary, observation, and insight from twenty years of the American Repertory Theatre /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 1999. |
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| Description: | xv, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3831055 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Arthur Holmberg
- Introduction / Robert Brustein
- Erotic Dreams [A Midsummer Night's Dream] / Arthur Holmberg
- A Note on the Translation of The Inspector General [The Inspector General] / Sam Guckenheimer and Peter Sellars
- A Note on Names in Revizor [The Inspector General] / Donald Fanger
- Feiffer on Grownups [Grownups] / David Edelstein
- Seeking the Source of Farce [Sganarelle] / Andrei Serban
- Bravos for A.R.T. in Europe [Sganarelle] / Jeremy Geidt
- Handel's Orlando: Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances [Orlando] / Peter Sellars
- Carlos Fuentes Turns to Theatre [Orchids in the Moonlight] / Arthur Holmberg
- Serban's Three Sisters: While the Light Lasts [Three Sisters] / Arthur Holmberg
- Marsha Norman on Playwriting ['Night, Mother] / Robert Brustein
- Jonathan Miller Rehearses [The School for Scandal] / Arthur Holmberg
- David Leveaux on A Moon for the Misbegotten [A Moon for the Misbegotten] / Laura Rice
- Huckleberry Finn and the Stage: Will the Twain Ever Meet? [Big River] / Glenda Hobbs
- Brustein's Hall of Mirrors [Six Characters in Search of an Author] / Arthur Holmberg
- Taking the Imaginary Seriously [The King Stag] / Andrei Serban
- Statements of Samuel Beckett, Barney Rosset of Grove Press, and Robert Brustein of the American Repertory Theatre [Endgame]
- On Jacques and His Master [Jacques and His Master] / Susan Sontag
- Milan Kundera: The Paradox of Play [Jacques and His Master] / Arthur Holmberg
- Susan Sontag: The Odd Couple in Extremis [Jacques and His Master] / Arthur Holmberg
- A Conversation with Robert Wilson and Heiner Muller [the CIVIL warS] / Arthur Holmberg
- Robert Brustein Discusses The Changeling [The Changeling] / Jonathan Marks
- Robert Brustein: Why Do Theatre?
- Robert Brustein Defines Theatre: "... works that assume the power of dreams ..."
- Duets, Trios, Quartets, and Quintets: World Premiere of The Juniper Tree [The Juniper Tree] / Donna DiNovelli
- JoAnne Akalaitis Discusses Genet and The Balcony [The Balcony] / Erin Mee
- Robert Wilson: The Stage as Mask [Alcestis] / Nina Mankin
- The Door Inside The Day Room (Notes Toward a Definitive Meditation) [The Day Room] / Don DeLillo
- Robert Brustein on Auteurs, Authors, and Actors / Jonathan Marks
- Richard Foreman: Directing with His Head and His Feet [End of the World (With Symposium to Follow)] / Donna DiNovelli
- Brecht Is No Longer Dangerous [The Good Woman of Setzuan] / Andrei Serban
- Dario Fo: Andiamo a Ridere [Archangels Don't Play Pinball] / Arthur Holmberg
- Reflections on Reflections [Right You Are (If You Think You Are)] / Arthur Holmberg
- Machiavellis of the Bedroom - An Erotic Endgame [Quartet] / Arthur Holmberg
- Philip Glass: Emotion in Pure Form [The Fall of the House of Usher] / Arthur Holmberg
- Tragedy Could Go No Further: Reflections on Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore [Tis Pity She's Whore] / Harry Levin
- Gozzi's Theatre: Clowns as Challengers [The Serpent Woman] / Andrei Serban
- Elliot Goldenthal: Big Music for Big Mythic Themes [The Serpent Woman] / Christopher Baker
- Liviu Ciulei: Sculpting Shapes for the Stage [Platonov] / Arthur Holmberg
- Larry Gelbart: Covert Comedy / Scandalous Satire [Mastergate] / Arthur Holmberg
- Andrei Serban Introduces The Miser [The Miser]
- Calderon Comes to Cambridge [Life Is a Dream] / Carlos Fuentes
- Anne Bogart: Splintering the Mirror of Calderon [Life Is a Dream] / Elizabeth C. Ramirez
- Notes on Twelfth Night [Twelfth Night] / Andrei Serban
- Robert Brustein: The Lava Beneath the Surface [The Father] / Robert Scanlan
- Strindberg's "Invention" [The Father] / Richard Gilman
- Brecht and the Law: An Interview with Harvard Law Professor Martha Minow [The Caucasian Chalk Circle] / Sean Abbott
- Henrik Ibsen and Robert Wilson: New Weapons and New Armor [When We Dead Awaken] / Robert Brustein
- The Disease of Art: Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken [When We Dead Awaken] / Arthur Holmberg
- Trinidadian Pastiche [Steel] / Thomas C. Holt
- The Demand for Love [King Lear] / Stephen Greenblatt
- What Should the Ghost Look Like? [Hamlet] / Jan Kott
- Shakespeare's Envy: Ibsen's Hedda [Hedda Gabler] / Harold Bloom
- Hedda Gabler: A Feminist Debate: Two Leading Feminist Writers Assess Ibsen's Most Famous Female [Hedda Gabler] / Molly Haskell and Anne Roiphe
- The Language of Misunderstanding [Oleanna] / Arthur Holmberg
- Diary of a Dead Man or The Theatre Novel [Black Snow] / Anatoly Smelyansky
- David Rabe: From Hurlyburly to Those the River Keeps [Those the River Keeps] / David Edelstein
- Henry IV [Henry IV] / David Bevington
- The Journey of Shlemiel the First: "All Roads Lead to Chelm" [Shlemiel the First] / Heather Lindsley
- Coming into the Light [Waiting for Godot] / Robert Scanlan
- Body and Soul: Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City [Slaughter City] / Gideon Lester
- Shock Art [The Naked Eye] / Paul Rudnick
- David Mamet; It's Never Easy to Go Back [The Old Neighborhood] / Arthur Holmberg
- Francois Rochaix and Jean-Claude Maret: Geneva Convention [The Bacchae] / Doug Kirshen
- Symposium Excerpts [The Taming of the Shrew]
- Andrei Belgrader and Shelley Berc: The Mischievous Duo [The Imaginary Invalid] / Michelle Powell
- Robert Brustein: The Price of Fame [Nobody Dies on Friday] / Arthur Holmberg
- Paula Vogel: Through the Eyes of Lolita [How I Learned to Drive] / Arthur Holmberg
- Christopher Durang: Family Survival [The Marriage of Bette and Boo] / Arthur Holmberg
- Liz Diamond: Facing the Monster [Phaedra] / Jennifer Kiger
- Andrei Serban: In Search of Understanding [The Merchant of Venice] / Gideon Lester
- The Jew in the Spotlight [The Merchant of Venice] / Gideon Lester
- Reflections / Rob Orchard
- A Complete Listing of A.R.T. Productions, 1980-1999
- The A.R.T. Professional Acting Company, 1980-1999
- Index of Names and Plays in the Text.
