Millennial stages : essays and reviews, 2001-2005 /
A major figure in the world of theatre as critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor, and producer, Robert Brustein offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. In this wise, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Brustein examines crucial issues rela...
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2006
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Positions and polemics. No time for comedy
- The new relevance
- Does theatre matter?
- Maiming the messinger
- Words on fire
- The rebirth of political theatre: the God of Hell; democracy when dramaturgs ruled the Earth
- Red and blue states of mind: The 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee; Terrorism. Part Two. Plays and productions. Varieties of histrionic experience: Medea; The resistible rise of Arturo Ui
- Mind over material: The invention of love; Mnemonic
- The Jew who buried Hitler: The producers
- The Harrowing of Hell: In the penal colony; Hamlet; and Hamlet
- Angels in Afghanistan: Homebody/Kabul
- Goat song: The goat, or Who is Sylvia?
- Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants
- Prescient plays: Far away; A number
- Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment
- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street
- Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night
- Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife
- Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics
- Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden
- The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon
- A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla
- Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool
- Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen
- The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall
- In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler
- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar
- Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza
- theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees)
- Lear's lendings: King Lear.
- Part Three. People and places. Marlon Brando: contempt for acting
- Requiem for Jan. Kott
- Pieter-Dirk Uys: the good hope of the cape
- Theatre in Australia: the cultural cringe
- Theatre in South Africa: fronting
- MASS MOCa: a boom in the boonies
- Hallie Flanagan David and the Federal Theatre: Hallie's Comet
- Suzan-Lori Parks: Does race matter?
- Kenneth Tynan and Peter Brook: the Cavalier and the Roundhead
- Shakespeare in bloom: The two noble Kinsmen; Henry IV; As You Like It
- George S. Kaufman: keeping company with Kaufman
- Shakespeare's geography
- Primo levi: the saved and the damned
- The death of Arthur Miller
- Richard Gilman: prisoner on the aisle
- Laurence Olivier and Elia Kazan: the peer and the pariah.
