Joy ride : show people and their shows / John Lahr.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 569 pages : illustrations : 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393246407
- 039324640X
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 792.0232 L184 | Available | 33111008088391 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols, and August Wilson. Lahr takes us to the cabin in the woods that Arthur Miller built in order to write Death of a Salesman; we walk with August Wilson through the Pittsburgh ghetto where we encounter the inspiration for his great cycle; we sit with Ingmar Bergman at the Kunglinga Theatre in Stockholm, where he attended his first play; we visit with Harold Pinter at his London home and learn the source of the feisty David Mamet's legendary ear for dialogue.
In its juxtaposition of biographical detail and critical analysis, Joy Ride explores with insight and panache not only the lives of the theatricals but the liveliness of the stage worlds they have created.
Collection of profiles and reviews originally published in The New Yorker.
Includes index.
Part I: Playwrights. Arthur Miller. A view from the bridge -- August Wilson. Gem of the ocean ; Joe Turner's come and gone ; Seven guitars -- Tony Kushner. Angels in America ; Caroline, or Change -- David Mamet. The cryptogram ; Glengarry Glen Ross -- Sarah Ruhl. Eurydice ; Stage kiss -- Clifford Odets. Golden boy -- David Rabe. Hurlyburly -- Harold Pinter. Moonlight ; The room and Celebration -- Wallace Shawn. The designated mourner ; Grasses of a thousand colors -- Neil Labute. The mercy seat -- Sam Shepard. True West -- William Shakespeare. John Barton ; Hamlet ; The winter's tale ; Othello ; Macbeth ; King Lear -- Part II: Productions. Arcadia ; The pajama game ; The retreat from Moscow ; Private lives ; Company ; Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street ; Me, myself & I ; Oklahoma! ; The light in the piazza ; Orpheus descending ; The rose tattoo ; Carousel -- Part III: Directors. Nicholas Hytner. The history boys ; Ingmar Bergman. Madam de Sade ; The misanthrope -- Susan Stroman. The producers ; Mike Nichols. Death of a salesman.
A collection of profiles and reviews from "The New Yorker" reveals details of the lives of contemporary dramatists as well as their sources of solace and inspiration, including Arthur Miller, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, and David Mamet.