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September 01 2003
Robert Wilson and Fred Newman A Dialogue on Politics and Therapy, Stillness and Vaudeville
Fred Newman,
Fred Newman
A founder of the Castillo Theatre and its Artistic Director, is one of America's foremost directors of the work of Heiner Müller. He has directed The Mission (1998); Hamletmachine (1996, 2002); The Task (1992); Explosion of a Memory (Description of a Picture) (1992); An Obituary-Heiner Müller: A Man without a Behind (1997), an original theatre piece featuring writings by Müller; and the North American premiere of Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man (2001). He has written more than 30 plays and musicals, and an anthology of his work, Still on the Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman, was published in 1998 (Community Literacy Research Project). He is a partner in Five Points Productions, and recently directed his first feature-length film, Nothing Really Happens (2002), based on his 1991 play, The Store: One Block East of Jerome.
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Robert Wilson,
Robert Wilson
Born in Waco, Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He studied painting with George McNeil in Paris and later worked with the architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He founded The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in 1968, based in Lower Manhattan. In 1970, Wilson received international acclaim for Deafman Glance, a silent “opera” created in collaboration with Raymond Andrews, a talented deaf-mute boy whom Wilson had adopted. A recipient of two Rockefeller and two Guggenheim fellowships, he worked closely with the late German playwright Heiner Müller on the CIVIL warS (1984), Hamletmachine (1986), and Quartet (1987). He spends each summer at hisWatermill Center, a multidisciplinary arts laboratory located in eastern Long Island, bringing together an international group of artists to develop new theatre work.
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Fred Newman
A founder of the Castillo Theatre and its Artistic Director, is one of America's foremost directors of the work of Heiner Müller. He has directed The Mission (1998); Hamletmachine (1996, 2002); The Task (1992); Explosion of a Memory (Description of a Picture) (1992); An Obituary-Heiner Müller: A Man without a Behind (1997), an original theatre piece featuring writings by Müller; and the North American premiere of Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man (2001). He has written more than 30 plays and musicals, and an anthology of his work, Still on the Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman, was published in 1998 (Community Literacy Research Project). He is a partner in Five Points Productions, and recently directed his first feature-length film, Nothing Really Happens (2002), based on his 1991 play, The Store: One Block East of Jerome.
Robert Wilson
Born in Waco, Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He studied painting with George McNeil in Paris and later worked with the architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He founded The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in 1968, based in Lower Manhattan. In 1970, Wilson received international acclaim for Deafman Glance, a silent “opera” created in collaboration with Raymond Andrews, a talented deaf-mute boy whom Wilson had adopted. A recipient of two Rockefeller and two Guggenheim fellowships, he worked closely with the late German playwright Heiner Müller on the CIVIL warS (1984), Hamletmachine (1986), and Quartet (1987). He spends each summer at hisWatermill Center, a multidisciplinary arts laboratory located in eastern Long Island, bringing together an international group of artists to develop new theatre work.
Richard Schechner
Online Issn: 1531-4715
Print Issn: 1054-2043
© 2003 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003
TDR/The Drama Review (2003) 47 (3 (179)): 113–128.
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Fred Newman, Robert Wilson, Richard Schechner; Robert Wilson and Fred Newman A Dialogue on Politics and Therapy, Stillness and Vaudeville. TDR/The Drama Review 2003; 47: 3 (179), 113–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/105420403769041428
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