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Overview
Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.
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Pivoting on ten individual plays, Wu (Romantic studies, Oxford U.) interviews the playwrights and the directors of performances between 1984 and 1998. They discuss such topics as whether there is such a thing as the theatrical sublime, how dramatists have responded to the changing political climate of the 1980s and 1990s, Brenton on Brecht, Bennett on Larkin, Edgar on eastern Europe, and Hare on Chekhov. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 9, 2000
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Pages
274
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312233716