Book review -- The Other American Drama by Marc Robinson

[176] Such passages evoke not only Foreman's plays, but a creative ambience and a quality of being inhabited by the plays and their playwright. [...] yet, such evocations frequently transcend and eclipse the rigorous "close transcriptions" (7) Robinson promises; for all their beauty a...

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Published in:Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 1996, Vol.48 (1), p.115
Main Author: DeRose, David J
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Creativity
Dramatists
Kennedy, Adrienne
Robinson, Marc
Shepard, Sam (1943-2017)
Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
Theater
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911-1983)
Wilson, August
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Summary:[176] Such passages evoke not only Foreman's plays, but a creative ambience and a quality of being inhabited by the plays and their playwright. [...] yet, such evocations frequently transcend and eclipse the rigorous "close transcriptions" (7) Robinson promises; for all their beauty and profundity, the moods and images Robinson evokes are often conjectural, as when he discusses the fashion in which Tennessee Williams's Amanda, in The Glass Menagerie, "fully inhabits her body, whether sitting down or entering a room" (35) or how Maggie, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "caresses Brick with her voice, purring 'baby,' toying with adjectives, drawing out the vowels of a word until she's luxuriating in sheer sound" (49). [...] reference to the texts themselves, or to the texts in performance, are few.
ISSN:0192-2882
1086-332X