In their own words : contemporary American playwrights / David Savran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savran, David, 1950-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dramatists, American--20th century--Interviews.

Dramatists, American.

American drama.

American drama--20th century-x History and criticism.

Playwriting.

Genre:

Interviews.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 320 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Theatre Communications Group, [1988]

Contents:

Lee Breuer

Christopher Durang

Richard Foreman

Maria Irene Fornes

Charles Fuller

John Guare

Joan Holden

David Hwang

David Mamet

Emily Mann

Richard Nelson

Marsha Norman

David Rabe

Wallace Shawn

Stephen Sondheim

Megan Terry

Luis Valdez

Michael Walker

August Wilson

Lanford Wilson.

Notes:

"Design by the Sarabande Press."

"The goal in each interview was to obtain a clear sense of each playwright's position: in relation to the history of dramatic literature, to the heterogeneity of American theatre and to the prevailing cultural and political order ... The interviews ranged between one and four hours but averaged roughly ninety minutes. All were edited and cut, some quite heavily, to eliminate redundancy and confusion and reduce them to manageable length. In all cases I tried to retain a sense of the movement of the conversation and the dynamism of the playwright's speaking voice."--Introduction.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing: July 1989".

ISBN:

0930452690

0930452704

OCLC:

17509074