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Ridiculous!

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836373
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Ridiculous! written by David Kaufman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

Ridiculous Theatre

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360418
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Ridiculous Theatre written by Charles Ludlam and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never widely available in his lifetime, Ludlam's essays and opinions of theatre reveal a complex mind focused on theatrical invention.

Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Author : Rick Roemer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786445103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company written by Rick Roemer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) brought his unique brand of theatre to New York audiences. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his "ridiculous" school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, and opera. His shows were also a study in self-collaboration; Ludlam acted as playwright, director, designer, and actor in his own Off Broadway theatre--the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Critically, Ludlam's works were often overlooked or misunderstood, and since his death The Mystery of Irma Vep is the only one of his 29 plays consistently performed in regional theatres. This work provides an overview of Ludlam's life, explores the theatrical underpinnings of his work and goes on to cover the entire Ludlam canon. The book includes examinations of such plays as Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Bluebeard, Galas and Stage Blood. It concludes with a look at Ludlam's work in the 1980s when he focused on presenting new plays, many of them original farces.

The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam written by Charles Ludlam and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1989 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystery of Irma Vep

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573640469
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Irma Vep written by Charles Ludlam and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover title: The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. presents Charles Ludlam's The mystery of Irma Vep.

The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays

Author : Charles Ludlum
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1636701833
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays written by Charles Ludlum and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, transgressive, erotic, moving, and so theatrical they seem the Platonic ideal of everything we mean when we use that word. The plays are the sublime expressions of what Ludlam insisted was not an aesthetic, but a moral vision: anti-Puritan, unsentimentally utopian, sexually destabilizing—a transporting, a transcendence by means of deflation, a joyous and subversive, even dangerous revelry leading to revelation, a wise and ecstatic celebration of the world.” –Tony Kushner (from his Preface) Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire. As Ludlam himself put it, "This is farce, not Sunday school." This collection includes an introduction by Tony Kushner alongside Ludlam's most famous and celebrated works for the stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep: Ludlam's most famous play, this is a hilarious send up of Daphne de Maurier, Jane Eyre and Victorian cross dressing. One of the most produced plays in the United States, The Mystery of Irma Vep is “the most perfect expression of Ludlam’s approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries” (Village Voice). Camille: based on La Dame aux Camélias, this satirical take on the tubercular courtesan brings any audience “to unexpected heights of pathos and laughter” (San Francisco Chronicle). Galas: the life of opera singer Maria Callas imagined as a modern tragedy, in which Ludlam himself assayed the part of the diva. Stage Blood: Ludlam's take on Shakespeare, with actors putting on Hamlet both on stage and back stage; somehow, in this tragedy, everything comes out for the best. Bluebeard: somewhat based on H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau, Bluebeard tells the story of a mad vivisectionist in search of a third sex.

Theatre of the Ridiculous

Author : Bonnie Marranca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801856983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of the Ridiculous written by Bonnie Marranca and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a theatrical form, the "ridiculous" thrived in the 1970s and early 1980s, playfully subverting dramatic and social convention in its mix of camp, role-playing, literary and cinematic allusions--and anticipating the current interest in gender, cross-dressing, and popular culture. Originally published in 1979, THEATRE OF THE RIDICULOUS (now revised and updated) was the first book to document this innovative and challenging form.

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Author : Sean Edgecomb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122959
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ludlam Lives! written by Sean Edgecomb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943–1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community. Author Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on the neo-Ridiculous artists Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac to trace the connections between Ludlam’s legacy and their performances, using alternative queer models such as kinetic kinship, lateral historiography, and a new approach to camp. Charles Ludlam Lives! demonstrates that the queer legacy of Ludlam is one of distinct transformation—one where artists can reject faithful interpretations in order to move in new interpretive directions.

Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances

Author : Jill C. Stevenson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132857
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances written by Jill C. Stevenson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience--and feel--their place within the future history of humankind

This Is Not My Memoir

Author : André Gregory
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374713278
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book This Is Not My Memoir written by André Gregory and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?

The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Other Plays

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361736
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Other Plays written by Charles Ludlam and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gay and Lesbian American Plays

Author : Ken Furtado
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810826892
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian American Plays written by Ken Furtado and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting the explosion of contemporary gay and lesbian theater, this bibliography provides a single reference for American gay and lesbian plays, playwrights, and companies, containing listings for more than 700 plays whose primary characters or themes are gay or lesbian. In addition to authors, titles, and synopses, the entries include information about acts, characters, settings, and music. Appendices provide data on how the plays can be obtained, a list of theaters that produce works with gay/lesbian themes, names and addresses of playwrights and agents, a list of related references, and a matrix for the quick location of plays that meet certain criteria. Indispensable for repertory companies, producers, directors, actors, and scholars.

Well

Author : Lisa Kron
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559362535
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Well written by Lisa Kron and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This play is not about my mother and me," begins Lisa Kron in Well. And yet, she has brought her mother, Ann, on stage with her. Needless to say, Ann disrupts the proceedings and soon the actors Lisa has hired to enact her "multicharacter exploration of issues of health and illness" discover that Ann is considerably more interesting than Lisa's play. In the end, Lisa's carefully constructed narrative collapses, leaving her to contemplate the notion that wellness lies in our ability to embrace the complexities and contradictions of life. Well is a surprising and funny play that ultimately acknowledges the heartbreaking challenge of true empathy, even toward those we love the most."--BOOK JACKET.

Amber Waves

Author : James Still
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573622595
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Amber Waves written by James Still and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of AATE's Distinguished Play Award and originally produced at The Kennedy Center, Amber Waves focuses children in a family struggling to hold on to their farm and each other. This acclaimed one act about children in a struggling farm family is now available in a full length version that builds on the emotional strengths of the shorter play.

Fabulation, Or, The Re-education of Undine

Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Fabulation, Or, The Re-education of Undine written by Lynn Nottage and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: FABULATION is a social satire about an ambitious and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the brink of social and financial ruin, Undin

Theater of the Avant-garde, 1950-2000

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300134230
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Theater of the Avant-garde, 1950-2000 written by Robert Knopf and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of significant avant-garde plays from around the world, along with essays that explore the evolution, objectives, and concerns facing the art form during the second half of the twentieth century.

Queer Theatre

Author : Stefan Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350053489
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Queer Theatre written by Stefan Brecht and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Functions corresponding to those of normal theatre in this post-bourgeois epoch have been taken over by the movies. Abnormal theatre still tempts artists of talent and integrity inclined to theatre. This abnormal theatre is a director's, not a writer's, theatre. Early forms of it emerged around the time of World War I in Germany and Russia. Its most recent form arose in the sequel of the American Renaissance of painting and dance in New York City during the 1960's. Though it lasted into the 70s, the rebellious mood that animated it was deprived of new energy starting in 1968/9. Here the author offers a sympathetic observer's record of it.