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Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group

Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group

Paperback (11 Oct 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A in-depth survey of the work of groundbreaking theatre company the Wooster Group, introduced by Peter Sellars. Essential accounts of the group's landmark shows, from Route 1 & 9 through to L.S.D., combining detailed description, critical commentary, production photographs and extensive interviews with company members Elizabeth LeCompte, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Willem Dafoe, Kate Valke, Peyton Smith and others. 'They are inventing theatrical vocabulary that will become the lingua franca of a revivified American Theatre... the most important theatre company in our country today' Peter Sellars, in his Introduction 'technically brilliant, sardonic, witty, irritating, raunchy, insouciant, Dadaist' Time Out on the Wooster Group.

About the Publisher

Theatre Communications Group

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN: 9780930452827
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 254
Weight: 430g
Height: 227mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 16mm