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Plays for the Public

by Richard Foreman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781559365550
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: USD 16.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 182 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

"There's an irresistible joy to reading these plays...examining them at leisure without the urgent propulsive forward movement of the theater, reveals beauties and resonances uniquely literary." --Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, from his foreword

Plays for The Public includes:

The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah)

"Richard Foreman is the ultimate theater auteur and mind-roiling warlock of avant-garde drama... Gods is an extravaganza of tightly orchestrated hallucinogenic visual effects, bruising slapstick and intense, cryptic lines... It is majestically mad and funny." --New York Times

Idiot Savant

"Vintage Foreman: ravishing, perplexing, scary, a sensual and intellectual message for those weary of causality and psychology." --Time Out New York

Old-Fashioned Prostitutes

"What makes Mr. Foreman's work so entertaining is his ability to turn these classic, head-scratching concerns into phantasmagorical vaudevilles in which all the world's a stage that keeps changing shape on you... Mr. Foreman is a grandmaster." --New York Times

This volume features the two plays sumptuously produced at The Public Theater in New York City that mark the culmination of Richard Foreman's unstintingly inventive, astonishing career in theater, just as he was beginning to devote his creative energies entirely to filmmaking.

Richard Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in 1968. He has written, directed and designed more than fifty of his own plays. He has received numerous awards, including the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Lifetime Achievement in the Theater Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Club Master American Dramatist Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.

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