Recycling Shakespeare (The Dramatic Medium)

Literature & Fiction

Charles Marowitz

History & Criticism

Macmillan

Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice, MacBeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Measure for Measure. Having compared an audience to a stopped clock in his introduction to this volume, Marowitz shows the reader the background to these adpatations and of the spirit in which they are made. The "clock" has neither been thrown out, nor has it been disembowelled and turned into a more reliable battery-run model.

The Marowitz Shakespeare: Adaptions and collages of Hamlet, Macbeth, The taming of the shrew, Measure for measure, and The merchant of Venice

William. Shakespeare

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

The Act of Being: Towards a Theory of Acting

Taplinger Pub. Co

THE STORY: Begins in the mid-1950s at the institute in Rangeley, Maine, which the famed scientific innovator Wilhelm Reich has established after fleeing from Hitler's Germany. He is visited by a Dr. Andre, from the Sigmund Freud Archives, who wants

Disciples.

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Sherlock's Last Case.

Marowitz, Charles

THE STORY: A leading metropolitan drama critic is led by an attractive production assistant into a recently discovered nineteenth-century theatre. There, the critic will film a television interview for a documentary on the actor John Wilkes Booth,

Stage Fright - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

THE STORY: William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark. The greatest obstacle to his achieving the success he believes he richly deserves is the prominence of Christop

Murdering Marlowe - Acting Edition

Humor & Entertainment

The first 30 years of the 20th-century produced a theatrical explosion whose reverberations are still felt today. Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtanghov, Michael Chekhov in Russia; Reinhardt, Piscator &amp; Brecht in Germany; and Copeau, Barrault &amp; Artaud in France collectively demolished the 19th-century aesthetic and, in their wake, created the modernity which is the hallmark of today's theatre. Most of these men have already been turned into modern icons; there is no shortage of bios on the pioneers of the Moscow Arts Theatre, and the achievements of the others are chronicled and archived for posterity. Only one of these artists remains murky and ill-defined. He is Michael Chekhov (1891-1955), nephew of the famous playwright Anton Chekhov, the man that Stanislavsky described as “the most brilliant actor in all of Russia.” A charismatic actor, an inspiring director and a teacher that developed a dynamic antidote to Russian Naturalism, Chekhov remains the invisible man of the modern theatre. Was he, as Lee Strasberg alleged, a dangerous mystic who would subvert the vigor of Stanislavsky's teachings and undermine the integrity of The Group Theatre? Or was he, as his disciples – Yul Brynner, Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Leslie Caron, Jennifer Jones, Patricia Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson &amp; Marilyn Monroe – believed, a man who had discovered a unique approach to acting which transcended the precepts enshrined in Stanislavsky's “System.” Charles Marowitz was granted special access to the Chekhov archives in Devon, England, and he interviewed actors and directors who worked closely with Chekhov both in Europe and America. The book chronicles Chekhov's influential period in Hollywood when he was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the avuncular psychiatrist in Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film Spellbound. It also describes his close association with Marilyn Monroe at the most delicate stage of her career.

The Other Chekhov: A Biography of Michael Chekhov, the Legendary Actor, Director, and Theorist

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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