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ISBN
9781559365338

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1559365331
ISBN-13
9781559365338
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221415325

Product Key Features

Book Title
Getting Off : Lee Breuer on Performance
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Theater / History & Criticism, American / General, Performance, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Art, Drama, Performing Arts
Author
Lee Breuer
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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Trade
LCCN
2019-020757
Reviews
"Since the nineteen-sixties and seventies, New York's experimental-theatre scene has toned down its wild-man character, but Lee Breuer is the grand old man of the movement." -- The New Yorker
Synopsis
Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. By blending disciplines and techniques from widely different cultures, he has created a unique performance genre fusing sound and musical components, visual arts, and arresting movement/dance/puppetry into a groundbreaking form. Breuer's work as a director includes radical adaptations of major works, such as his celebrated stagings of The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett, The Gospel at Colonus, inspired by Sophocles, a gender-reversed King Lear, and a revolutionary reinterpretation of Ibsen with Mabou Mines DollHouse. Breuer has also been a prolific writer who redefines the concept of character and the use of biography in such works as The Shaggy Dog Animation, A Prelude to Death in Venice, Hajj, Ecco Porco, and La Divina Caricatura in a distinctive American voice. In this volume, theatre historian and journalist Stephen Nunns has assembled a unique look into one of contemporary theatre's most singular creative minds. Using interviews and excerpts from Breuer's writings, with added historical commentary, the thrilling result is equal parts autobiography, artistic manifesto, and critical exploration. Extensively illustrated with photographs of his work from around the world, this is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artist and theatrical activist at work., "Since the nineteen-sixties and seventies, New York's experimental-theatre scene has toned down its wild-man character, but Lee Breuer is the grand old man of the movement."-- The New Yorker Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech and David Warrilow. Breuer's work as a director has included celebrated stagings of Samuel Beckett, radical readings of classics including The Gospel at Colonus on Broadway in 1988, a gender-bending adaptation of King Lear in 1990, and his revolutionary reinterpretation of Ibsen with Mabou Mines Dollhouse. Theatre historian and journalist Stephen Nunns has assembled a unique look into one of American theatre's most singular creative minds. Using interviews and excerpts from Breuer's writings, with added historical commentary, the thrilling result is equal parts autobiography, artistic manifesto, and critical exploration. Beautifully illustrated with archival photographs, drawings, and sketches, this is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artist and theatrical activist at work. Lee Breuer is a founding co-artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company in New York City. His best-known work is The Gospel at Colonus , a Pentecostal Gospel rendering of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. He also authored/directed Mabou Mines' trilogy , Animations , which included The B Beaver , The Red Horse , and The Shaggy Dog Animation (Obie Award for Best Play), as well as A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Obie Award for script and direction), and An Epidog , the winner of the President's Commission Kennedy Center-American Express Award for Best New Work., Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. By blending disciplines and techniques from widely different cultures, he has created a unique performance genre fusing sound and musical components, visual arts, and arresting movement/dance/puppetry into a groundbreaking form. Breuer's work as a director includes radical adaptations of major works, such as his celebrated stagings of The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett, The Gospel at Colonus , inspired by Sophocles, a gender-reversed King Lear , and a revolutionary reinterpretation of Ibsen with Mabou Mines DollHouse . Breuer has also been a prolific writer who redefines the concept of character and the use of biography in such works as The Shaggy Dog Animation, A Prelude to Death in Venice, Hajj, Ecco Porco , and La Divina Caricatura in a distinctive American voice. In this volume, theatre historian and journalist Stephen Nunns has assembled a unique look into one of contemporary theatre's most singular creative minds. Using interviews and excerpts from Breuer's writings, with added historical commentary, the thrilling result is equal parts autobiography, artistic manifesto, and critical exploration. Extensively illustrated with photographs of his work from around the world, this is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artist and theatrical activist at work., A revelatory new examination from one of theatre's most revered avant-garde artists. Beautifully illustrated with photos throughout.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.R415Z46 2019

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