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Title: Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater by Richard Foreman, Ken Jordan, Peter Sellars ISBN: 1-55936-076-3 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Foundation for a new theatre
Comment: The opening essay, "Foundations For A Theatre," is the clearest and most linear statement to date of Richard Foreman's work, which re-considers the entire process of making theatre (from the formulation of a script to rehearsal to performance) and what kind of experience an evening of theatre may convey.
No one is creating theatre like Richard Foreman, whose associative (and sometimes dissociative) writing process contrives to capture a truthful portrait of his own perception at work. In rehearsal, Foreman creates an environment rebelling against any mimetic presentation of everyday reality, which is a kind of shared dream. He uses every theatrical element at his disposal to surprise and dazzle the spectator, and bring awareness to our radical impulses before our intellects "understand" them (and change them into something else).
Although his project sounds very cerebral, his theatre is very much about the senses, and his art grabs you on a gut level.
The book includes several plays, though it might have been helpful to include a script without the production stage directions to help understand the way he generates a script. (A later book, MY HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER, does include this and it helps a great deal.) Also, more photographs and illustrations would support his essay on visual design and use of space.
This artist is way ahead of his time, using theatre to address the process of perception itself rather than narrative thinking. The importance of this book, addressing this work to a general reader, may not be appreciated for quite some time.
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Title: Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group by David Savran ISBN: 0930452828 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor, Michal Kobialka ISBN: 0520084233 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $41.50 |
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Title: Paradise Hotel and Other Plays: And Other Plays by Richard Foreman ISBN: 1585670154 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud, Mary C. Richards ISBN: 0802150306 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart ISBN: 0415238323 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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