Richard Foreman
Professor/Playwright Steven Drukman sat down with theatre artist Richard Foreman in April of 1997 at Artsconnection to discuss theatrical innovation in an interview co-sponsored by SDCF and the Drama League Directors Project. Foreman illuminates an early career of set design as a teenager in Westchester, NY; as an actor at Brown University; as a playwright at Yale. He confides that his origins as a director stem from an unwillingness of his contemporaries to direct his pieces. Drukman questions the reasoning behind the geometric, psychologically-charged staging of his earlier minimalist works in New York and his progression to the maximally theatric. Foreman discusses his 8-12 week rehearsal process, his admiration for film and irrational imagination. This enlightening interview gives listeners the opportunity to experience the mind of one of avant-garde theatre’s pioneers, and his theatre of “infantile impulses”.
Originally recorded on – April 10, 1997.
Running time – 1:23:40.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to SDCF Masters of the Stage’s Richard Foreman program page.
You can also download directly the Richard Foreman program (mp3).
Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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American Theatre Wing
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