100 essays I don't have time to write :on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
- 作者: Ruhl, Sarah,
- 出版:
- 版本: First paperback edition.
- 稽核項: xiv, 218 pages ;19 cm.
- 標題: American essays , American essays 21st century.
- ISBN: 0374535671 , 9780374535674
- 附註: "Published in 2014 by Faber and Faber, Inc."--Title page verso. On writing plays -- On acting in plays -- On people who watch plays: audiences and experts -- On making plays with other people: designers, dramaturgs, directors, and children.
- 摘要: Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy." 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. -- Back cover.
- 系統號: 005280389
- 資料類型: 圖書
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100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."
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