Conversations with Anne : twenty-four interviews / Anne Bogart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogart, Anne, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States--Interviews.

Theater.

Theatrical producers and directors--United States--Interviews.

Theatrical producers and directors.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 507 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2012.

Summary:

Following the Events of 9/11, theater director Anne Bogart noticed that people were "gravitating with gusto toward one another to converse, to consider, to listen and to discuss substantive issues." She began an initiative at her SITI Company studio in New York, inviting artists and cultural thinkers whom she admired to a series of public conversations before a live audience. These conversations took place over a ten-year period, becoming highly anticipated events with very limited seating. Now for the first time these extraordinary conversations are available to share with a wider audience.

The individuals included have had a profound effect on the arts and artistry over the past twenty-five years: JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Ben Cameron, Martha Clarke, Oskar Eustis, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, André Gregory, Bill T. Jones, Tina Landau, Elizabeth LeCompte, Eduardo Machado, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Joseph V. Melillo, Meredith Monk, Mary Overlie, Peter Sellars, SITI Company, Molly Smith, Elizabeth Streb, Julie Taymor, Paula Vogel, Robert Woodruff and Mary Zimmerman. Book jacket.

A seven-time Obie winner, SITI Company is based in New York City with a summer institute in Saratoga Springs. The company is recognized throughout the world as one of theater's most important artistic collectives, creating groundbreaking work while training artists from all over the world. SITI has visited twenty-one countries on five continents and created more than thirty new productions, including such iconic pieces as The Medium (1994), War of the Worlds- The Radio Play (1999), bobrauschenbergamerica (2001), Score (2002), Death and the Ploughman (2004), Hotel Cassiopeia (2006) Radio Macbeth (2007), American Document (2010, a collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company) and, most recently, Trojan Women (2011). Book jacket.

Contents:

Richard Foreman 3

Peter Sellars 23

Charles L. Mee, Jr 47

André Gregory 65

Paula Vogel 87

Martha Clarke 109

Julie Taymor 125

Bill T. Jones 145

Zelda Fichandler 167

JoAnne Akalaitis 191

Joseph V. Melillo 211

Lee Breuer 231

Elizabeth Streb 251

Elizabeth LeCompte 273

Meredith Monk 297

Eduardo Machado 321

Ben Cameron 343

Tina Landau 365

Oskar Eustis 385

Molly Smith 407

Robert Woodruff 427

Mary Zimmerman 445

Mary Overlie 469

SITI Company 489.

ISBN:

9781559363754

1559363754

OCLC:

601133877