Astonish me
Subtitle: adventures in contemporary theater.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Performing arts -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A Richard Seaver book."
Table of contents: title: Pageants: Orlando Furioso: Theater as "contact" sport. The theater of sports. 1789: The French Revolution year one. Andre Gregory's Alice in Wonderland: Playing with Alice.; title: Playwrights: Pinter and Chekhov: The bond of naturalism. Joe Orton: Artist of the outrageous. Jules Feiffer and Sam Shepard: Spectacles of disintegration. Neil Simon and Woody Allen: Images of impotence. Mystery on stage. Heathcote Williams' AC/DC: Flushing the toilet in the brain.; title: Performances: The Berrigans. Open theatre's Terminal. Open theatre's The mutation show. Ike and Tina Turner. Maurice Chevalier. E. Y. Harburg. Comden and Green. Lenny Bruce. Little Richard. Muhammad Ali: The last good-by.