Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Himself, UniqueOriginals are rare, in the performing arts especially.That's because performance always re-enacts itself in its dramaturgies, stagings, acting, and writing.Performing is the outcome of rehearsingre, re, re-again, again, again.In this regard, Richard Foreman was not one of a kind.You can situate him alongside and within expressionism, surrealism, dada, the absurd; even epic theatre.His directorial style is in conversation with auteurs such as Meyerhold, Brecht, Kantor, Brook, Grotowski, Wilson, LeCompte, and Mnouchkine.Foreman's writing knows Jarry, Ionesco, and Brecht.I could go on, but for all this placing, nothing really fixes Foreman.The closest I know to a true
Source: TDR/The Drama Review
Author: Richard Schechner
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414022101