In:
New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 2, No. 8 ( 1986-11), p. 313-319
Abstract:
In the final issue of the original series of Theatre Quarterly , TQ40 (1981), R. G. Davis described his experiences directing the plays of Dario Fo in Canada and the USA, focusing mainly on his work with We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! Here, he looks not only at his own but at the half-dozen other productions of Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist which have so far been presented in North America – and finds himself, in retrospect, critical of his own work, as well as that of others. He concludes that it is impossible to attempt Fo's plays properly without at least an understanding of the political point of view he sums up as ‘anarcho-communist’ – a point of view which must communicate through the leading players. A regular contributor to the present and its predecessor journal, R. G. Davis, who founded the San Francisco Mime Troupe in the sixties, is presently teaching at San Francisco State University, reviewing for the magazine of the California Confederation of the Arts (by whose kind permission the following article is reprinted), and is now engaged in staging his own adaptation of llya Ehrenburg's The Life of an Automobile , as an ‘imagistic theatre’ production.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0266-464X
,
1474-0613
DOI:
10.1017/S0266464X00002323
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1986
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2030067-0
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9,3
SSG:
7,25
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