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Programming theater history : the Actor's Workshop of San Francisco / Herbert Blau ; introduction by Elin Diamond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blau, Herbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)--History.
- Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Theater--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'One of the great stories of the American theater..., the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.' - Elin Diamond, from the IntroductionHerbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its h
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Elin Diamond
- A loft, in the early days
- Coming up the ramp: mid-term variations
- Alienation and the absurd: the mystery remains
- Reason not the need: faith or fury, farce or dream
- Mixed blessings and the sorcery of persuasion
- Home stretch: what will the future think?
- The winding sheet: a requiem-coda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-34326-1
- 0-203-12407-3
- 1-299-31940-8
- 1-136-34327-X
- 9780203124079
- OCLC:
- 831117995
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