Richard Foreman

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ISBN: 9781555540715 | 1555540716
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2005

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This wide-ranging anthology includes a collection of reviews tracing Foreman's reception from the 1960s to today, a series of informative interviews, a section of critical essays and a selection of Foreman's writings (including the complete text of My Head Was a Sledgehammer). The book also offers a detailed chronology of Foreman's career, a current bibliography and 19 photographs from his plays.

Acknowledgments

Gerald Rabkin, Richard Foreman: An Introduction

(22)

I Overviews

Kate Davy, Kate Manheim as Foreman's Rhoda

(14)

Florence Falk, Setting as Consciousness

(13)

Guy Scarpetta, Richard Foreman's Scenography

(6)

Mel Gussow, Celebrating the Fallen World

(4)

Marc Robinson, A Theatre of One's Own: The Mellowing of Richard Foreman

(7)

II Reception

Arthur Sainer on Total Recall (1971)

(2)

Michael Smith on Evidence (1972)

(2)

Richard Schechner on Rhoda in Potatoland (1976)

(4)

Bonnie Marranca on Pandering to the Masses (1977)

(9)

Frank Rich on Penguin Touquet (1981)

(3)

Gerald Rabkin on Don Juan (1982)

(4)

Gordon Rogoff on The Cure (1986)

(3)

Erika Munk on Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good (1987)

(4)

Kenneth Bernard on Lava (1990)

(2)

Michael Feingold on Eddie Goes to Poetry City (1991)

100

(3)

Ben Brantley on My Head Was a Sledgehammer (1994)

103

(3)

Robert Gross on I've Got the Shakes (1995)

106

(5)

III Dialogues

Writing and Performance: Interview with Richard Kostelanetz (1982)

111

(7)

Both Halves of Richard Foreman: The Playwright: Interview with David Savran (1987)

118

(7)

Both Halves of Richard Foreman: The Director: Interview with Arthur Bartow (1987)

125

(8)

Off-Broadway's Most Inventive Directors Talk about Their Art: Discussion with Elizabeth LeCompte (1994)

133

(12)

IV Writings

Ontological-Hysteric Manifesto I (1972)

145

(13)

Program Note for Particle Theory (1973)

158

(2)

How to Write a Play (1976)

160

(9)

The Carrot and the Stick (1976)

169

(9)

rogram Note for Blvd de Paris (I've Got the Shakes) (1977)

178

(1)

Director's Notes from Program for Don Juan (1982)

179

(4)

ges of the Avant-Garde (1994)

183

(4)

Samuel II (1994)

187

(4)

My Head Was a Sledgehammer (1994)

191

(46)

Chronology

237

(4)

Select Bibliography

241

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Richard Foreman

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