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Drama

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Scenarios: Scripts To Perform, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-37081-38923
Scope and Contents

This book is a compilation of performance scripts with heavy emphasis on Fluxus and Neo-Dada. As indicated in the book, Spaulding Gray, the now well known radio monologist, performed in a music piece written by Paul Epstein in 1971. Kostelanetz also reprints a monologue by Gray entitled "The Return from India." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Scenes Forgotten and Otherwise Remembered / Higgins, Dick., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30765-32211
Scope and Contents

Written between 1981 and 1983 in Berlin and Barrytown, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Shepards - Bath Towels - Angels - Sheets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11857-12078
Scope and Contents

The text (title) lists instructions for a Christmas play. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Storm Riders and Other Plays / Higgins, Dick., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32893-34508
Scope and Contents

This book includes the scripts of eight short plays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Art of Interpretation / Bacon, Wallace A. ; Kriwet F ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Patchen K ; Williams E ; Johnson R ; Herbert G., 1979

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Identifier: CC-21666-22077
Scope and Contents

Third edition of book which first appeared in 1966. Reproduction of Kriwet's "Walk Talk" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Birds / Aristophanes ; Dudley Fitts, translator ; Phillips T., 1957

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Identifier: CC-27164-27639
Scope and Contents

This is the program for the play with music composed by Dudley Moore. Tom Phillips played the part of Kinesias. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The First Celestial Adventure of Mister Benzadrine / Tzara, Tristan ; Elmer Peterson, translator ; Trissel J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27843-28976
Scope and Contents

This book, which is a typographical tour de force, was the product of 10 students, the translator, Elmer Peterson, and the instructor, James Trissel. The type faces are of varied size, dimensions and spill across the page together with visual images. In the colophon, Trissel comments that "the product resembled nothing less than that of an exquisite corpse." The pages were composed as a collage and then printed on a Vandercook IV from polymer plates on Arches cover paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara Translated by Dom Sylvester Houedard [final revision for performance] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Jackson, Babs., 1967

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Identifier: CC-55639-9999241
Scope and Contents

Houedard's rendition of Tzara's farce has been infused with Houedard's own ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara Translated by Dom Sylvester Houedard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-55636-64916
Scope and Contents

Houedard's rendition of Tzara's farce has been infused with Houedard's own ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara Translated by Dom Sylvester Houedard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-55637-9999239
Scope and Contents

Houedard's rendition of Tzara's farce has been infused with Houedard's own ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985 / Killian, Kevin, editor ; Brazil, David, editor ; Spicer J ; Olson C ; Ashbery J ; O'Hara F ; Atkins R ; Corso G ; Duncan R ; McClure M ; DiPrima D ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Thomas L ; Waldman A ; Jones L ; weiss r ; Padgett R ; Weiner H ; Brainard J ; Andrews B ; Waldrop K ; Waldrop R ; Holman B ; Rosenthal B ; Benson S ; Greenwald T ; Harryman C ; Perelman B ; Robinson K ; Grenier R ; Bernstein C ; Drucker J ; Elmslie K ; Scalapino L ; Acker K ; Cha THK., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51237-72325
Scope and Contents According to the editors, "This is a historically based survey of what was happening in poets theatre from year to year in the four decades after World War II."In Michael McClure's play, the "Feast (1960)," made-up language is utilized. The players were members of the Semina group of writers. Hannah Weiner's play "RJ (Romeo & Juliet) (1966) employs one to three letter combinations of non-words adjacent to the character designations based upon a 19th century code "The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations." These provide directions for performance. Bruce Andrews Song No.3 (1973) is a listing of phrases with directions without character designations.Amazon.com. Caroline Bergvall: Each play included here is a gauge of the contributions, some light-hearted, some light-headed, some gestural, some structural, that a great many influential American poets have made in the shadow of experimental theatre s heydays. The editors are themselves no strangers to the guilty...
Dates: 2010