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Drama

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

The Peoplemover, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-39679-41638
Scope and Contents

This book is a political drama that utilized concrete poetic posters as the props. The theme is the Nixon era of political discontent with civil rights and the Vietnam war. A copy of the prints for the out of doors protest are also held by the Sackner Archive. This poetry performance piece written by Solt, a leader of the concrete poetry movement,was composed in reaction to the anger and frustration she was feeling in 1968 due to the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. First performed by Donald Bell's experimental design class at Indiana University on August 7, 1968, the piece expanded after each performance incorporating Solts's poetry as well as additional bits of random dialogue creating a "dadaesque" multimedia art piece involving a projection screen and audience participation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Rebirth of Shakespeare's Globe / Levy, Paul; Phillips T., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-31228-32698
Scope and Contents

Reviews the restoration of the Globe Theatre in London for Shakespearean plays and specifically mentions Tom Phillips' production design of "The Winter's Tale." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Road To Ottawa (der weg nach bern) / Ruehm, Gerhard; Eileen Thalenberg, translator., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-50816-71894
Scope and Contents

This play is written in the style relating to the "Theater of the Absurd." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Skin of our Teeth / Wilder, Thornton., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-43465-45528
Scope and Contents

This play in three acts presented at the Plymouth Theatre, New York was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Critics like Campbell and others stated that the play was modeled after the story line in Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. This book was first published in 1958; this is the second printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[The stage in performance, Winter's Tale] / Phillips, Tom., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30742-32187
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips was the designer for the production of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale at the newly reconstructed Globe Theatre and this card depicts the stage scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Theatre of Mixed Means / Kostelanetz, Richard ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Beckett S ; Brecht G ; Breton A ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Ginsberg A ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Joyce J ; Kaprow A ; Kepes G ; McLuhan M ; Samaras L ; Schneemann C ; Stern G ; Young L ; Zazeela M., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-32473-34047
Scope and Contents

This book is "an introduction to happenings, kinectic environments, and other mixed-media performances." Nine members of the 1960's avant garde discuss their works with Kostelanetz in the new theatre forms, including John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg and La Monte Young. Richard Kostelanetz contributes two essays interpreting the new theatre in terms of its historical, social and aesthetic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Theatre Without Borders records

 Collection
Identifier: UA10004
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of documents highlighting the work of the volunteer, grass-roots group that encourages the theater arts around the world. Materials include administration files, ephemera, scripts and other documents that highlight the history of the organization and their global impact.

Dates: 1983 - 2020
Found in: University of Iowa Archives

There's a llttle ambiguity over there among the bluebells / Krauss, Ruth ; Brecht G ; Charlip R., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-41474-43459
Scope and Contents

This collection of brief, poem-plays is illustrated by Marilyn Harris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Though This...William Shakespere: Hamlet 2:2 / Arne Wolf., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-00388-399
Scope and Contents

The text on the the thee horizontlally cut pages reads "Though this be madness yet there's method in't." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Timothy McSweeney's: At War for the Forseeable Shitbrained Future. No.14 / David Eggers, editor ; Weschler L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42848-44889
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster that could totally mess up life as we know it. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C. Boyle, Susan Straight, Jim Shepard, Wells Tower, Jessica Anthony, Chris Bachelder, and approximately seven other good people. At least one of these stories contains the following paragraph: "I am Felicius Victor, son of the centurion Annius Equester, on active service in the Twentieth Cohort and scribe for special services for the administration of the entire legion. All day, every day, I'm sad. Over the heather the wet wind blows continuously. The rain comes pattering out of the sky. My bowels fail me regularly and others come and go on the continuous bench of our latrine...
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Timothy McSweeney's. No.16 / David Eggers, editor ; Mathews H ; Coover R ; Beattie A., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44017-46130
Scope and Contents

The verso of Robert Coover's 15 playing cards (14 Hearts and aa Joker) entitled "Heart Suit"can be read as story in any sequence. Other authors who have written in this style include B.S. Johnson (Travelling People) and Marc Saporta (Composition No.1). Both of these works are held by the Sackner Archive. The man's comb in this collection is engraved "Timothy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Travelling People, 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-31919-33444
Scope and Contents In the prelude to his first novel, Johnson states that he wanted to write a novel that would expose its mechanism. He realized that it would be desirable to have interludes between chapters in which "I could stand back, so to speak, from my novel, and talk about it with the reader, or with those parts of myself which might hold different opinions, if necessary; and in which technical questions could be considered, and quotations from other writers included, where relevant, without any question of destroying the reader's suspension of disbelief, since such suspension was not to be attempted." He adds, "I should be determined not to lead my reader into believing that he was doing anything but reading a novel..."Such interludes are placed between chapters in this book and are marked by poetically designed layouts (the book was designed by Johnson) and liberal use of Italic typeface. The eight interludes comprise the descriptions mentioned in the prelude including among others...
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

True Stories / Byrne, David., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-21453-21864
Scope and Contents

Introduction written by Byrne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

TSNX C24VA7ME: A Play by Dr Hun, 1974

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Identifier: CC-16369-16719
Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Turkish Delight / Buck, Paul., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-21031-21440
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

...und alles blieb wie es war / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Estella Schmid, translator., 1966

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Identifier: CC-10807-11017
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Under Milk Wood / Thomas, Dylan., 1954

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Identifier: CC-51180-72268
Scope and Contents This is the 11th printing of the 1st edition of the book. Wikepedia comments: Under Milk Wood is a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas, later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. An all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub (which backwards is bugger all). They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.The fictional name Llareggub resembles other Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan- (meaning church), but is actually derived from reversing the phrase "bugger all". In early published...
Dates: 1954
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[Untitled] / Chomarat, Michel ; Apollinaire G ; Broodthaers M ; Cendrars B ; Marinetti FT ; Scanreigh JM., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-19750-20137
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jean-Paul Larouche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

[untitled] / Vigo, Edgardo-Antonio; Vigo, Tana., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-61879-10003036
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Ver Sacrum / Breicha, Otto, editor ; Mayrocker F ; Hausmann R ; Ruhm G ; Artmann HC ; Kolar J ; Mikl J ; Hrdlicka A ; Bernhard T., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-52191-73312
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is the Weiner Secession. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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