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- Ten Thousand Nights: Highlights from 50 Years of Theatre-Going
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- 2017
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
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Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010. These are not conventional reviews, but essays using each theatre experience to provide an insight into the theatre and theatre-going at a particular time. The range of performances covered is broad, from edgy experimental fare to mainstream musicals, most of them based in New York but with stops at major theatre events in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Milan, and elsewhere. The engagingly written pieces convey a vivid sense not only of each production but also of the particular venue, neighborhood, and cultural context, covering nearly all significant movements, theatre artists, and groups of the late twentieth century.
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- The 1960s
- 1963 Anne Bancroft in Mother Courage
- pp. 22-27
- 1965 Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade
- pp. 32-36
- 1966 Bread and Puppet’s Fire
- pp. 37-41
- 1967 Hair at the Public Theater
- pp. 41-46
- 1968 Jean-Louis Barrault’s Rabelais
- pp. 46-51
- The 1970s
- 1970 Luca Ronconi’s Orlando Furioso
- pp. 59-63
- 1972 Ariane Mnouchkine’s 1789
- pp. 68-73
- 1973 Charles Ludlam’s Camille
- pp. 73-77
- 1974 Richard Foreman’s Pain(t)
- pp. 78-82
- 1975 Giorgio Strehler’s King Lear
- pp. 82-87
- The 1980s
- 1981 The Wooster Group’s Route 1 & 9
- pp. 113-118
- 1983 Mabou Mines’ Cold Harbor
- pp. 122-127
- 1984 Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman
- pp. 127-132
- 1986 The Market Theatre’s Asinamali!
- pp. 137-141
- 1987 John Krizanc’s Tamara
- pp. 141-146
- 1988 David Edgar’s Entertaining Strangers
- pp. 146-151
- 1989 Yuri Lyubimov’s Three Sisters
- pp. 151-156
- The 1990s
- 1990 Reza Abdoh’s Father Was a Peculiar Man
- pp. 159-163
- 1991 Split Britches’ Belle Reprieve
- pp. 163-168
- 1994 Tadashi Suzuki’s The Tale of Lear
- pp. 178-182
- 1995 Karen Beier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- pp. 183-187
- 1996 Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker
- pp. 187-192
- 1997 Julie Taymor’s The Lion King
- pp. 192-197
- 1998 Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive
- pp. 197-202
- 1999 El-Warsha’s Spinning Lives
- pp. 202-206
- The 2000s
- 2000 Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project
- pp. 209-213
- 2001 Stephen Sondheim’s Follies
- pp. 213-218
- 2002 Big Art’s Flicker
- pp. 218-223
- 2003 Lee Breuer’s Dollhouse
- pp. 223-227
- 2004 Ivo van Hove’s Hedda Gabler
- pp. 227-232
- 2006 Rimini Protokoll’s Wallenstein
- pp. 237-242
- 2007 August Wilson’s Radio Golf
- pp. 242-246
- 2008 Signa’s The Ruby Town Oracle
- pp. 246-251
- 2010 The Passion Play at Oberammergau
- pp. 256-260
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472123155
Related ISBN(s)
9780472037544, 9780472130504
MARC Record
OCLC
1005701454
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2017-10-26
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017