Joseph Chaikin & Sam Shepard: Letters and Texts, 1972-1984

Daniels, Barry (editor)

ISBN 10: 0453006833 / ISBN 13: 9780453006835

Published by NAL Books, New York, 1989

About this Item

8vo, 252 pp.

Seller Inventory # 086534

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joseph Chaikin & Sam Shepard: Letters and Texts, 1972-1984
• Publisher: NAL Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0453006833
• ISBN 13: 9780453006835
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Letters between the director and playwright depict the development of their friendship and collaboration on theater pieces

Reviews

Daniels, who teaches at Kent State, here collects everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about three collaborations between playwright Shepard and director Chaikin. The slim volume--featuring letters between the two, drafts of plays and Daniels's commentary--benefits from an academic's inclusiveness and a cultist's obsessiveness, yet the whole, surprisingly, exceeds the sum of its parts. The material reveals the plays in question ( Tongues ; Savage/Love ; The War in Heaven ) as collaborative in the best sense: we observe the excitement of dramatist and performers sharing and merging respective influences. However, in limiting himself to written documents, Daniels unfairly, if unintentionally, privileges Shepard; only audiotapes and/or videotapes of performances could fully represent Chaikin's contributions.
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