My Dinner with Andre (Shawn, Wallace)
Edition: 1st Evergreen Ed edition
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 7, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780802130631
Subjects: Film & television screenplays; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; General; Drama / General; Drama
First sentence: WALLY is trudging through the streets of New York.
Description: "[Book title] is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. André Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As André recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more than skepticism, as his attitudes shift among wonder, puzzlement, admiration, and anger. What finally emerges is a sensitive portrait of a friendship that survives and transcends contrasting assumptions about love, death, art, and man's continuing quest for self-fulfillment."--Back cover.