The Playwrights Speak

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THE PLAYWRIGHTS SPEAK
is a collection of interviews with eleven of the most influential and controversial modem playwrights. John Osborne, John Arden, Harold Pintér and Arnold Wesker represent England; Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, William Inge and Edward Albee represent America; Eugene Ionesco represents Francé; Friedrich Dürrenmatt Switzerland and Peter Weiss Germany.
The last decade has seen a period of extraordinary theatrical growth, new styles have emerged, new aims and new names; and critical appraisals both of the new writers and the new genres abound. The playwrights themselves, however, the grassroots of any new movement, have said little for they tend to dislike interviews and are reluctant to commit their comments to paper. Consequently, there is acute interest in their views— views on the future of the theatre, on its purpose, on new styles of writing. In this volume the dramatists discuss their work, their careers and their contemporaries in what is probably... Tovább

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THE PLAYWRIGHTS SPEAK
is a collection of interviews with eleven of the most influential and controversial modem playwrights. John Osborne, John Arden, Harold Pintér and Arnold Wesker represent England; Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, William Inge and Edward Albee represent America; Eugene Ionesco represents Francé; Friedrich Dürrenmatt Switzerland and Peter Weiss Germany.
The last decade has seen a period of extraordinary theatrical growth, new styles have emerged, new aims and new names; and critical appraisals both of the new writers and the new genres abound. The playwrights themselves, however, the grassroots of any new movement, have said little for they tend to dislike interviews and are reluctant to commit their comments to paper. Consequently, there is acute interest in their views— views on the future of the theatre, on its purpose, on new styles of writing. In this volume the dramatists discuss their work, their careers and their contemporaries in what is probably the most comprehensive collection of playwrights' views in print today. Eugene Ionesco is searching for the anti-theatre, Wesker for social commitment; Arthur Miller believes passionately in the capacity of the theatre to convey ideas, Edward Albee in the dangers of didacticism. Ali the interviewees in this book have their own unique vision of the theatre and it is this vision that we must understand. John Russell Taylor (author of Anger and
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