Light fantastic : adventures in theatre / John Lahr
- Bib ID:
- 1640266
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lahr, John, 1941-
- Description:
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- New York : Dial Press, 1996
- xiii, 381 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0385315465 (hardback)
- 0385315503 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Comedians. Bill Hicks: The Goat Boy Rises. Joe Orton: A Revenger's Tragedy. Max Wall: The Monkey King of Comedy. Barry Humphries: Playing Possum. Jackie Mason and Mort Sahl: Working the Room. Peter Cook: Bedazzled
- Pt. II. Playwrights. Oscar Wilde: Running Wilde. Harold Pinter: Night Sweats. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Lone Wolf and the Russian Bear. Tennessee Williams: Fugitive Mind. Tony Kushner: Beyond Nelly. Edward Albee: Sons and Mothers. Sir Terence Rattigan: Untutored Hearts. Lillian Hellman: Hell on a Short Fuse. Alan Bennett: Madjesty. Arthur Miller: Dead Souls. Eugene O'Neill: Selling the Sizzle. Arnold Wesker: Hand to Mouth. Clifford Odets: Waiting for Odets. Neil Simon: Shtick Ball. Brian Friel: Sight Unseen. Tom Stoppard: Blowing Hot and Cold
- Pt. III. Musicals. George and Ira Gershwin: City Slickers. Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel. Jule Styne: Mr. Broadway. George C. Wolfe: Jelly's Last Jam. Savion Glover: Tap Messenger. Lerner and Loewe: Shaw Business.
- Beauty and the Beast: The Shock of the Neutral. Stephen Sondheim: Love in Gloom. The Who's "Tommy": Full Tilt. Isaac Bashevis Singer: Bring Back the Clowns. Kern and Hammerstein: Mississippi Mud
- Pt. IV. Productions. Ingmar Bergmn: Gravity and Grace. Ariane Mnouchkine: Caprice of the Gods. Ralph Fiennes: Mat inee Idolatry. Ingmar Bergman: The Battle of the Vanities. Stephen Daldry: The Virgin and the Dynamo. Peter Brook: Losing the Plot. Anna Deavere Smith: Under the Skin. Ingmar Bergman: Winter Songs.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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