Research Catalog

Title

Ridiculous theatre : scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam / edited by Steven Samuels.

Author

Ludlam, Charles

Publication

New York, NY : Theatre Communications Group, 1992.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Samuels, Steven.

Description

xxi, 263 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Ludlam, Charles > Aesthetics
• Ridiculous Theatrical Company
• Dramatists, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States
• Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century
• Experimental drama > Authorship
• Comedy > Authorship
• Playwriting

Genre/Form

Interviews

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Confessions of a fraceur -- -- Essays: -- Colette -- Mr. T. or El Pato in the gilded summer palace of Czarina-Tatlina -- A monograph and a premature memoir -- The seven levels of the theatre -- Manifesto: ridiculous theatre, scourge of human folly -- The last shall be first -- Costume fetishism or clothes make the man -- Salome -- From pillar to post modern -- Ludlam versus critics -- Hedda journal -- -- Opinions: -- My career -- Directing -- The audience -- The critics -- Other theatre artists -- Broadway -- Opera -- Film -- Television -- The avant-garde -- Camp -- Gay theatre -- Sexuality -- Politics -- Assorted maxims and epigrams.

ISBN

• 1559360429 (cloth) :
• 1559360410 (paper) :

LCCN

^^^92002944^

OCLC

• 25202073
• SCSB-11104570

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library