Stage Dust - Hardcover

Marowitz, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810840456 ISBN 13: 9780810840454

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2001

Synopsis

Stage Dust is an assortment of notices, columns, profiles, and essays which describe the performances, plays, personalities, trends and controversies that preoccupied the cultural scene in America in the last decade of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the theatre. It contains personal observations about some of the seminal performances that took place in the 1990s and the artists that were prominent during that period, culled from a variety of periodical sources including The New York Times, The L.A.Times, American Theatre Magazine, The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), The Observer (UK) and London Times (UK). Using brief linking commentary, it also fills in the necessary foreground and background of the items under review.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Marowitz is currently the artistic director of the Malibu Stage Company and has been co-director with Peter Brook of the Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group. His directorial credits include several West End productions including premieres of work by Saul Bellow, Joe Orton and Sam Shepard. His free adaptation of Shakespeare have been published world-wide and collected in the volume, The Marowitz Shakespeare. Marowitz has been the lead Drama Critic for the L.A. Herald Examiner and he has contributed to a wide variety of publications. He is also an experienced acting teacher having conducted Professional Acting Seminars in Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Wiesabden, Oslo and Stockholm as well as colleges, universities and drama-schools throughout England.

Review:

This is the first volume in the publisher's series Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment and it is to be hoped that subsequent publications, edited by the admirable Anthony Slide, prove to be as stimulating as this one. For Marowitz is as much at home describing the work of Lenny Bruce as that of Antonin Arnaud, or Jerzy Grotowsky and Howard Stern. His book reviews encompassing subjects as diverse as Noel Coward, John Barrymore, Lord Alfred Douglas and Lola Montez, are a joy. (The Stage)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0810840456
• ISBN 13: 9780810840454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240