Susan Letzler Cole

Playwrights in Rehearsal

The Seduction of Company

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415919692
• ISBN-10: 041591969X
• Artikelnr.: 21206413

Autorenporträt

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: AHidden World (Routledge) and The Absent One: MourningRitual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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