Getting Off: Lee Breuer on Performance
• This book is especially appealing to theatre professors and students as it provides a glimpse into the mind of one of theatre's founding fathers of experimental stage work. • Could be a significant text for the field of innovative theatre and avant-garde art in general.• Lee Breuer has been a well-known, widely lauded staple in the downtown theatre scene in New York since the early 80s.• The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs throughout.• Breuer's most famous work, The Gospel at Colonus, earned an Obie Award for Best Musical, and was nominated for a Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Grammy Award, and an Emmy Award. • Besides The Gospel at Colonus, other works of Breuer's earned him several Obie Awards, including the Obie Award for Best New American Play in 1978 ( Shaggy Dog Animation ), the Obie Award for Playwriting in 1980 ( A Prelude to Death in Venice ), and the Obie Award for Direction in 2004 ( Mabou Mines DollHouse ).• Breuer received a Macarthur Fellowship in 1997 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities in 1977.
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| Title | Getting Off: Lee Breuer on Performance |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 1559368624 |
| ISBN 10 | 1559368624 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781559368629 |
| Date published | 2019 |
| Edition | 5 |
| MRSP | 19.95 |
| Pages | 238 |
| Author | Lee Breuer |
| Binding | Kindle Edition |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
| Tags | Art Humanities Performance Special Topics Theatre |
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