Playwrights At Work.
Language: English
Published by Modern Library, New York, 2000
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- Softcover
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First edition / First printing. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Printed wrappers. xiii, 411 pages. Fine.
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- Title
- Playwrights At Work.
- Author
- PLIMPTON, George, Editor. Introduction by John Lahr. Playwrights interviewed: Thorton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, John Guare, Sam Shepard, August Wilson, David Mamet and Wendy Wasserstein.
- Publisher
- Modern Library, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679640215
- ISBN 13
- 9780679640219
- Edition
- 1st Edition, Special Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 3 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Anthology, Drama, Literature
"At its best, theater is an antidote to the whiff of barbarity in the millennial air. 'My feeling is that people in a group, en masse, watching something, react differently, and perhaps more profoundly, than they do when they're alone in their living rooms,' Arthur Miller says here. In the dark, facing the stage, surrounded by others, the paying customer can let himself go; he is emboldened. The theatrical encounter allows a member of the public to think against received opinions. He can submerge himself in the extraordinary, admit his darkest, most infantile wishes, feel the pulse of the contemporary, hear the sludge of street talk turned into poetry. This enterprise can be joyous and dangerous; when the theater's game is good and tense, it is both."
--from the Introduction by John Lahr
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About the Author
George Plimpton (1927–2003) was the bestselling author and editor of more than thirty books, as well as editor of the Paris Review for its first fifty years. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television.
John Lahr is the author of 15 books. Among them are his bestselling biographies of his father, Bert Lahr (Notes on a Cowardly Lion) and the playwright Joe Orton (Prick Up Your Ears, which was made into a feature film). His Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries was awarded the British 1992 Roger Machell Prize for the best book on the performing arts. Lahr has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. He has also twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, first in 1969, when he was drama critic for The Village Voice and Evergreen Review, and in 1995 for his work at The New Yorker. His stage adaptations have been performed at London's Royal National Theatre, in the West End, at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. His short film (directed by John Hancock) Sticky My Fingers, Fleet My Feet was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in London.
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