The Drama is Coming Now: The Theater Criticism of Richard Gilman, 1961-1991
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In this collection of insightful writings, one of America’s finest drama critics chronicles thirty years of American theater history. Richard Gilman illuminates a period of dynamic change in theater through wide-ranging and provocative essays, profiles, and book reviews that reveal not only his sense of cultural mission but also his love of good art.
ForewordAbout Richard GilmanPt. IEssays and articlesThe drama is coming now3British theater : kinky, arrogant, and frankly magnificent16Growing out of the sixties24Broadway critics meet Uncle Vanya35The new German playwrights : Franz Xaver Kroetz44How the new theatrical directors are upstaging the playwright56Out goes absurdism - in comes the new naturalism67The new American playwrights : Sam Shepard74Pt. IIProduction criticismWilder's Plays for Bleecker Street93Kingsley's Night life95O'Neill's Desire under the elms and Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois98Inge's Natural affection99Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie102Hansberry's The sign in Sidney Brustein's window104Lowell's The old glory105Miller's Incident at Vichy107O'Neill's Hughie109Miller's A view from the bridge111Baldwin's The amen corner112Inge's Where's daddy?113Albee's A delicate balance114Terry's Viet rock and van Itallie's America hurrah116Lowell's Prometheus bound118The living theatre on tour119The performance group's Commune125Chaikin's Tourists and refugees no. 2 and Hellman's The little foxes130Hwang's The dance and the railroad and Family devotions133Fuller's A soldier's play136Guare's Lydie Breeze and Shepard's The unseen hand137Miller's A view from the bridge140Norman's 'Night, mother142Foreman's Egyptology144Durrenmatt's The physicists147Brecht's Baal and The exception and the rule149Grass's The plebians rehearse the uprising and docudrama150Brecht's The Caucasian chalk circle154Brecht's Galileo155Buchner's Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena157Brecht's The threepenny opera : preview159Chekhov's The seagull and Ostrovsky's The storm163Chekhov's The three sisters166Chekhov's Ivanov168Strindberg's The father169Ibsen's Peer Gynt172Ibsen's When we dead awaken174Ibsen's Ghosts176Arrabal's The automobile graveyard179Ghelderode's Hop, Signor!182Anouilh's Traveller without luggage184Moliere's Tartuffe186Anouilh's Colombe187Sartre's The condemned of Altona188Moliere's The misanthrope189Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet192Gielgud's Hamlet195American Shakespeare Festival's Richard III and Much ado about nothing197New York Shakespeare Festival's Othello198Lincoln Center's The changeling199The Guthrie's Richard III and The way of the world201Lincoln Center's The country wife202Lincoln Center's The alchemist203APA's The school for scandal205Breuer's The tempest206Roundabout Theater's Misalliance210Royal Shakespeare Company's All's well that ends well211Osborne's Luther214Wesker's Chips with everything217Pinter's The room and A slight ache220Wesker's The kitchen221Pinter's The homecoming223Beckett's Rockaby225Churchill's Cloud nine227Fugard's "Master Harold" ... and the boys229Pinter's The hothouse231Hare's Plenty233Churchill's Top girls235Beckett's Ohio impromptu, catastrophe, and What where237Pt. IIIBook reviewsGeorge Steiner's The death of tragedy241Lionel Abel's Metatheatre244Eugene Ionesco's Notes and counter notes250Eric Bentley's The life of the drama and Robert Brustein's The theatre of revolt252Herbert Blau's The impossible theater256Jerzy Grotowski's Towards a poor theatre259Martin Esslin's The peopled wound : the work of Harold Pinter262Bertolt Brecht : collected plays, edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett265The letters of Sean O'Casey, edited by David Krause268Henrik Ibsen : the complete major prose plays, translated and introduced by Rolf Fjelde272Margaret Brenman-Gibson's Clifford Odets : American playwright, the years from 1906 to 1940279Arthur Miller's Timebends : a life282Pt. IVProfiles and legaciesBertolt Brecht once again291Appraising Stanislavsky's legacy today294Jest, satire, irony, and deeper meaning : thirty years of off-Broadway298Jean Genet, 1910-1986305Eric Bentley ... and me307"A man misunderstood in the midst of fame" : Henrik Ibsen312The second coming of Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983318Joseph Chaikin : seeking the words to recapture a past and shape a future328
