For Presentations:
The theater after Beckett
Check these out. Use your resources. If you are confused, want guidance, or have a different idea you'd like to run past me, please be in touch. Use the blog to share with each other what you are interested in--hopefully we can negotiate topics and settle things before next class.
Mac Wellman -- american playwright. (also influenced by Stein)
Maria Irene Fornes -- cuban-american playwright/teacher.
Elizabeth LeCompte (The Wooster Group) -- american company/collective)
Stuart Sherman -- american performance artist, creator of "spectacles" of manipulated obects
Spalding Gray -- american monologuist (associated w The Wooster Group)
Ping Chong -- chinese-american creator/designer/playwright
Heiner Muller -- german playwright of harsh poetic texts often directed by robert wilson
Robert Wilson -- american director, "theater of images".
David Greenspan -- american playwright
Thomas Bernhard -- austrian playwright. brought attention to austria's nazi past, lived a tortured relationship to his country.
Peter Handke -- austrian playwright, novelist, wrote screenplay with wim wenders for wings of desire.
Athol Fugard -- south african playwright, author of Boesman and Lena, a post-beckett anti-apartheid play
Lee Breuer -- american director/writer, member of mabou mines. early work on beckett as a director then became a writer (theater of images) and creator.
Squat Theater -- collective in exile. important work in the 70s/80s.
Elfriede Jelinek -- nobel winning playwright, novelist. new model of womens' writing? new ideas about author/director relationship...JACKIE currently in NYC
Suzan-Lori Parks -- african-american seven sisters educated writer,also inspired by Stein
Franz Xaver Kroetz -- German writer of political plays
Sam Shepherd -- American movie star playwright also influenced by open theater, beat writing, american geography
Richard Foreman -- American post-modern theory influenced writer/designer
Karen Finley -- American monologuist of the 1980s, denounced by right-wing politicians for her obscene material
Naomi Iizuka -- American writer of new plays
Charles Mee -- collage plays, American
And remember: Come to class with your top two/three so we can choose topics. Also: if you're interested by someone/something that isn't listed, email me and make a pitch. I'm open.
ReplyDeleteWhat are people thinking?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to do Susan-Lori Parks
or Ping Chong to get to know him more in depth.
I'd like to research Heiner Muller.
ReplyDelete