Peter Goodchild, Murray Horowitz, Jonathan Estrin, Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series (eBook, ePUB)

Pivotal Moments in American History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U.S history.

With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented.

The scripts included are:
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild
The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild
RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992)

As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350135819
• Artikelnr.: 58952022

Autorenporträt

Peter Goodchild (born 1939) is a British writer and television producer. He is known for several plays (including his 1958 three-act Secretary Trouble) and for his editing work on the pioneering BBC show Horizon, with which he worked from 1965 to 1975. He later produced a TV series and biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who worked on the first atom bomb.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Michael Hackett The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter
Goodchild Script Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg Playwright
Peter Goodchild's program note The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild
Script Program note by playwright Peter Goodchild Producing Director Note
by Susan Loewenberg Interview with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb RFK: The Journey to
Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin Script Dramaturgical note by
Elizabeth Bennett Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg Interview
with longtime Kennedy confidante Father Ted Hesburgh (deceased), former
President of Notre Dame University The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter
Goodchild Script Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey
Cowan and Leroy Aarons Script Producing Director Note by Susan Loewenberg
Two interview montages, one from 1991, the other from 2008-9 touring
productions