Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on Theatre & Other Entertainments
A critic's expansive take on modern American theater.From more than 50 years of experience as a playwright, teacher, director, and critic, Wilson has much to offer readers who care about the theater in the U.S. As a young man in the early 1950s, the author appeared headed to a career with a small coffee company in Nashville. But New York theater junkets with his parents to see landmark playse.g., Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oklahoma!had planted the idea of becoming a playwright. In 1954, that pursuit sent him to the Yale School of Drama, where, eventually, he earned a doctorate. George Bernard Shaws essays on Shakespeare, which Wilson researched for his dissertation, shaped his straightforward, lucid prose style, much in evidence here. After graduation, the author taught at Hofstra while also assisting a Broadway producer. The latter work found him working for British stage director Peter Brook in helming a film adaptation of Lord of the Flies. The films failure prompts Wilsons illuminating observations on fundamental differences between film and theater, which he feels Brook couldnt bridge. A brief stint teaching playwriting at Yale followed by a long tenure at Hunter College teaching theater yielded a text, The Theatre Experience (1976), that remains in print today. A golf outing with a Wall Street Journal writer eventually led to Wilsons 23-year career as the papers theater critic. The assignment afforded him a look at what may have been the modern American theaters final flowering, as evoked in Wilsons articulate, entertaining reviews of stellar productions such as The Elephant Man, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, and many more. Now in his 90s, the author laments Broadways current state, with theatregoers dressed as if they were about to go into a picnic while herded like refugees to see jukebox musicals and Disney spectacles. Magic time in American theater, it seems, has vanished. A fifth-row center seat for a perceptive look at a vital time on the Broadway boards.
yazar | Edwin Wilson |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 25 Ağustos 2020 |
1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 3 Ocak 2017 25 Ağustos 2020 H. G. Wells 28 Şubat 2018 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm 4 Ocak 2017 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm F Scott Fitzgerald Kolektif Jack London 19,5 x 13,5 cm G. A. Henty 5 Ocak 2017 1 Ocak 2018 B M Bower 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm
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yazar | Edwin Wilson |
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isbn 10 | 1575259478 |
isbn 13 | 978-1575259475 |
Yayımcı | Smith & Kraus Pub Inc |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on Theatre & Other Entertainments | 25 Ağustos 2020 |
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