| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) |
| Contents |
Empire of the Stage -- Lunch with Gielgud and Richardson -- Noel Coward at Seventy -- Tranquil in Connecticut with Arthur Miller -- England's Great Clown -- His Name Escapes Him -- In Memoriam Michael Bennett -- Peter Brook, Barbra Streisand, and Me -- Angels in America Parts 1 and 2 -- Janet McTeer-Up-the-Stage -- Hurry Up Please It's Time -- The Great Gambon -- Mr. Brantley's Torsos -- The Ralph Fiennes Hamlet -- We Like It a Lot -- The Mayfair Medea -- Who Was the Jew Shakespeare Knew? -- Anything Goes with the Professor -- Art Is Good for You -- A Helluva Musical -- It's Big! It's Safe! It's Full of Generic Symbolism! -- Whatever Happened to Class? -- Farewell, Carousel -- My Blood Brother and Me -- Sleeping at the Theater -- The Killing of Wonderful Tennessee -- How to Murder Your Mother -- Brave New World -- Safe Pedophilia -- The Sad Tale of Jack the Cat -- Brilliant Blues -- Holocaust Denial -- The Amazing Vanessa Redgrave -- The Still Subversive Joe Orton -- Theater Thingie of the Year -- Slumming with Sam Shepard -- No Tony for Julie -- What Is the Sound of One Hand Acting? -- Country Matters -- Oscar Wilde's Brilliant Lunatics -- A-Plotz for David Ives -- No. 1 Dance Hall Chicken Inna New York City -- Lost in Suburbia -- Voltaire-Shmoltaire -- The Asterisk Problem: Sho**ing and Fucking -- Et In Arcadia Ego -- The America Play -- How America Was Lost -- These Gentle Artists -- The Jerry Stiller Three Sisters -- Needles and Opium -- The Three Ages of Woman -- The God of Lies -- Mametspeak |
| Summary |
"How Good is David Mamet, Anyway? is the best of John Heilpern's theater writings. There's a glittering cast list: Vanessa Redgrave and Ralph Fiennes, Helen Mirren and George C. Wolfe, Fiona Shaw and Savion Glover, Karen Finley and David Mamet, and dozens of others. There's also a major piece on the vital differences between the British and American theater scenes, profiles of such legends as Noel Coward, Gielgud and Richardson, and Alec Guinness, review-essays on the great, good, and awful plays of our time, as well as irreverent views of some of our most widely admired theater icons."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Great Britain.
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Theater -- United States.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Theater.
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Theater
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Toneelstukken.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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Großbritannien
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136691522 |
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1136691529 |
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9781315023052 |
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1315023059 |
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