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Charles Ludlam Lives
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Author : Sean Edgecomb
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Charles Ludlam Lives written by Sean Edgecomb and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with History categories.
Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943–1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community. Author Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on the neo-Ridiculous artists Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac to trace the connections between Ludlam’s legacy and their performances, using alternative queer models such as kinetic kinship, lateral historiography, and a new approach to camp. Charles Ludlam Lives! demonstrates that the queer legacy of Ludlam is one of distinct transformation—one where artists can reject faithful interpretations in order to move in new interpretive directions.
Charles Ludlam Lives
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Author : Sean F. Edgecomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Charles Ludlam Lives written by Sean F. Edgecomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Ridiculous
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Author : David Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Release Date : 2002
Ridiculous written by David Kaufman and has been published by Applause Theatre & Cinema this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A former theater critic for the New York Daily News, Kaufman has been covering theater in New York for some 20 years, and is a long-time contributor to The Nation, the Village Voice, and The New York Times. Here he gives an account of the life of Charles Ludlam (1946-1987), a prominent figure in the theater avant-garde, a pioneer of drag performance, and founder of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company (1967), whose work has influenced such performers as Bette Midler and the original cast of Saturday Night Live. Kaufman spent some ten years researching the book and interviewing key people in Ludlam's life and career. Illustrated with b & w photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Charles Ludlam And The Ridiculous Theatrical Company
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Author : Rick Roemer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1998
Charles Ludlam And The Ridiculous Theatrical Company written by Rick Roemer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ludlam (1943-1987) first brought his unique brand of theater to New York audiences in the late 1960s. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his ridiculous school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, opera and theatrical artifice. The author provides an overview of Ludlam's life, exploring the theatrical underpinnings of his work and then the whole Ludlam canon. A look at Ludlam's work in the 1980s concludes the work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ridiculous Theatre
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Author : Charles Ludlam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Ridiculous Theatre written by Charles Ludlam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Complete Plays Of Charles Ludlam
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Author : Charles Ludlam
language : en
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date : 1989
The Complete Plays Of Charles Ludlam written by Charles Ludlam and has been published by Harpercollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Drama categories.
Briefly traces the playwright's life, and presents all twenty-nine of his plays, which combined farce, melodrama, and satire
The Mystery Of Irma Vep And Other Plays
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Author : Charles Ludlum
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date : 2022-11-29
The Mystery Of Irma Vep And Other Plays written by Charles Ludlum and has been published by Theatre Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with Drama categories.
“Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, transgressive, erotic, moving, and so theatrical they seem the Platonic ideal of everything we mean when we use that word. The plays are the sublime expressions of what Ludlam insisted was not an aesthetic, but a moral vision: anti-Puritan, unsentimentally utopian, sexually destabilizing—a transporting, a transcendence by means of deflation, a joyous and subversive, even dangerous revelry leading to revelation, a wise and ecstatic celebration of the world.” –Tony Kushner (from his Preface) Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire. As Ludlam himself put it, "This is farce, not Sunday school." This collection includes an introduction by Tony Kushner alongside Ludlam's most famous and celebrated works for the stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep: Ludlam's most famous play, this is a hilarious send up of Daphne de Maurier, Jane Eyre and Victorian cross dressing. One of the most produced plays in the United States, The Mystery of Irma Vep is “the most perfect expression of Ludlam’s approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries” (Village Voice). Camille: based on La Dame aux Camélias, this satirical take on the tubercular courtesan brings any audience “to unexpected heights of pathos and laughter” (San Francisco Chronicle). Galas: the life of opera singer Maria Callas imagined as a modern tragedy, in which Ludlam himself assayed the part of the diva. Stage Blood: Ludlam's take on Shakespeare, with actors putting on Hamlet both on stage and back stage; somehow, in this tragedy, everything comes out for the best. Bluebeard: somewhat based on H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau, Bluebeard tells the story of a mad vivisectionist in search of a third sex.
The Mystery Of Irma Vep And Other Plays
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Author : Charles Ludlam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Mystery Of Irma Vep And Other Plays written by Charles Ludlam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
The first collection of Ridiculus Theatre founder Charles Ludlum's major works in one volume.
Theatre Of The Ridiculous
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Author : Bonnie Marranca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Theatre Of The Ridiculous written by Bonnie Marranca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
As a theatrical form, the "ridiculous" thrived in the 1970s and early 1980s, playfully subverting dramatic and social convention in its mix of camp, role-playing, literary and cinematic allusions--and anticipating the current interest in gender, cross-dressing, and popular culture. Originally published in 1979, THEATRE OF THE RIDICULOUS (now revised and updated) was the first book to document this innovative and challenging form.
Feeling The Future At Christian End Time Performances
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Author : Jill C. Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-02
Feeling The Future At Christian End Time Performances written by Jill C. Stevenson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02 with Performing Arts categories.
How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience--and feel--their place within the future history of humankind