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Author:   Richard C. Sewell
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780786429936

ISBN 10:   0786429933
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   27 July 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: An Amateur Time-Travel Memoir      I. In the Theater of Dionysos An Actor at Play with the Past—Athens, 2005      Three or More Greeces      A Braid of Three Strands      Arion      A Thespian’s Dionysia      II. Aeschylus and War News Arms and the Man and the News      ... and the New      How This Theater Worked—the Early Years      III. First Plays and Other Newness Philosopher as Playwright      Suppliants, Persians and Seven      IV. Prometheus, Then Orestes Forethought      The Cry on the House of Atreus      A Son Comes Home      The Gods Come to Athens      Afterthoughts      V. Sophocles and Euripides—Worse War News An Unpleasant Few Minutes      Theater Life after Aeschylus      Of Ajax and of Heracles’ Wife      A One against a Many      Problematics      Two Electras, Sophocles’ and Euripides’      VI. Then and Now A Twinge      Hubris in a Theater of War      The Art of Old Age      Charon’s Steps      Then Afterthought Said      Bibliography      Index     

Reviews

“Reading [this book] is like sitting down to a leisurely, open-ended chat—probably over a glass or two of scotch—with one of those passionate, marvelously well-informed, creative and freewheeling thinkers who manages also to be charming. There are insights here that I can’t wait to put to use in my next directing project, and enthusiasm here that rejuvenates the reader for the daily business of living a good life and/or doing good theatre.”—Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.

Reading [this book] is like sitting down to a leisurely, open-ended chat--probably over a glass or two of scotch--with one of those passionate, marvelously well-informed, creative and freewheeling thinkers who manages also to be charming. There are insights here that I can't wait to put to use in my next directing project, and enthusiasm here that rejuvenates the reader for the daily business of living a good life and/or doing good theatre. --Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.

"""Reading [this book] is like sitting down to a leisurely, open-ended chat--probably over a glass or two of scotch--with one of those passionate, marvelously well-informed, creative and freewheeling thinkers who manages also to be charming. There are insights here that I can't wait to put to use in my next directing project, and enthusiasm here that rejuvenates the reader for the daily business of living a good life and/or doing good theatre.""--Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company, Inc."

Author Information

Richard C. Sewell, AEA, a founding director of The Theater at Monmouth in 1970, directed and acted there until 1993. He taught directing and theater history for the Colby College Theater and Dance department from 1974 to 2001. He lives in Maine, writing and directing. His plays have had recent productions in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.

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