My Head Was a Sledgehammer: Six Plays
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A collection of six plays by America's foremost avant-garde playwright - a theatrical genius whose work has been compared to that of Samuel Beckett. Foreman is a practising metaphysician in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879515759
ISBN13:9780879515751
Release Date:February 1995
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:342 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"
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Essential Foreman collection, not the best intro to him
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
For an introduction to Richard Foreman's theories, manifestos, and practice of theatre, one should look to UNBALANCING ACTS, which includes several essays by him in which he describes clearly the revolutionary direction he is taking with his plays, written and directed by him annually at his little theatre space in New York City, the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre.This collection of his plays through the mid 1990's includes a valiant introduction and, to its credit, something that UNBALANCING ACTS lacks: a facsimile of one of Foreman's unusual play texts without production stage directions or line attributions. (Foreman, you see, doesn't start out with characters, per se, and distributes the lines during his rehearsal process.) Your correspondent is among those who feel Richard Foreman's work is highly visionary and way ahead of our time. It is also wonderfully funny and has the power to make you feel creative yourself. But really, it is time to publish more photographs of these productions, as Foreman's talents as a scenic designer are getting overlooked!
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