Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101971770 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Callaway Award for excellence in the craft of stage direction. His 1997 play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde was named one of the best plays of the year by Time, Newsday, the New York Post, The Advocate, and The New York Times. With Tectonic he has directed works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Benjamin Britten, and others, and created new works including The Laramie Project and 33 Variations. He is the recipient of the 1997 Joe A. About the Author MOISÉS KAUFMAN is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a theater company based in New York City. In 2016, President Obama awarded Kaufman a 2015 National Medal of Arts for "his powerful contributions to Ameri
Robert Barton. In 2016, President Obama awarded Kaufman a 2015 National Medal of Arts for "his powerful contributions to American theater."BARBARA PITTS MCADAMS was an actor/dramaturg for The Laramie Project, and has been a Tectonic teaching artist and Moment Work champion ever since. His 1997 play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde was named one of the best plays of the ye
A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. Twenty years ago Moisés Kaufman and the members of his Tectonic Theater Project set out to find an art form that speaks to us today, that uses new forms to express new ideas. The technique they developed to do this is called "Moment Work," in which they build a play by first constructing "Moments," or units of theatrical time. A Vintage Original.Moment Work is an impassioned argument for moving beyond the stale conventions of realism and naturalism that modern theater has been stuck in for more than a century. The technique has led to the creation of startlingly moving and affecting works--ranging from Gross Indecency and The Laramie Project to 33 Variations and I Am My Own Wife--has been used in restaging classic plays, and has inspired theater arti