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RICHARD FOREMAN   (1937 - )


Richard Foreman
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Plays by Richard Foreman

RICHARD FOREMAN
Africanis Instructus
1st Produced:
New York
1986
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1st Published:
in "Love & Science", Hearn, London
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RICHARD FOREMAN
American Imagination, The
1st Produced:
New York
1978
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Angelface
1st Produced:
New York
1968
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Bad Behaviour
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Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Bad Boy Nietzsche!
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Blvd. De Paris (I've Got The Shakes)
1st Produced:
New York
1978
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Book Of Splendors (Part II: Book Of Levers: Action At A Distance
1st Produced:
New York
1977
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1st Published:
in "Theater, New Haven, Connecticut, Spring
1978
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Caf Amrique
1st Produced:
Paris
1982
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Classical Therapy; Or, A Week Under The Influence . . .
1st Produced:
Paris
1973
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Cure, The
1st Produced:
New York
1986
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1st Published:
in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York
1992
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Deep Stories: From the Notebooks of Richard Foreman
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
Alternative Theatre Machine [ATM]
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Genre:
Multi-Media Performance Art, 75 min
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Notes: Text by Richard Foreman; Adapted by John Issendorf.
Synopsis: Don't operate under the delusion that description equals meaningfulness, writes Piia. But who is the man in the hat? Why did the glamorous woman leave wearing rose-colored glasses? Is it God that Piia is after? The answers may be in the torturous forget-me-nots. . .
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater
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Play/Drama
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Synopsis: Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland: A Richard Foreman Theater Machine uses digital material filmed in Japan and England and takes place on a stage in New York in which everything is askew-the windows, the walls (covered with turn of the century photographs), and the furniture, which includes two pianos. Even the large screens on which images are projected are off balance. Within this setting, the mind is asked to jump from world to world, Japan to England, filmed world to live stage world. The mind is also asked to jump to new ways of relating to reality, a reality in which ideas and behaviors, when viewed correctly, are also askew.
press release
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre
1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts
1972
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Notes: music Silverman, Lyrics Hendry
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Dream Tantras For Western Massachusetts
1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts
1971
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Notes: music Stanley Silverman
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 1
1st Produced:
Seattle, Washington
1990
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 2
1st Produced:
New York
1991
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Egyptology: My Head Was A Sledgehammer
1st Produced:
New York
1983
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Elephants-Steps
1st Produced:
Lenox, Massachusetts
1968
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Evidence
1st Produced:
New York
1972
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Notes: aka 15 Minutes of Evidence
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York
1992
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Synopsis: some other time and some other place, the last Filmmaker in the World is on display in a zoo that is also a radio station, allowed only to make films promoting the idea that Film is evil and Radio is good. Patronized and tormented by the Owner of the Radio Station and her Associates (as well as a pair of fascist Zookeepers), the Filmmaker attempts to plead his case to the audience and hold onto his own values, even as the case against Film as a positive force is presented with greater clarity and increasingly violent force
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RICHARD FOREMAN
George Bataille's Bathrobe
1st Produced:
Paris
1984
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), The
1st Produced:
2005
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville
1st Produced:
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1966
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Synopsis: Harry Rosenfeld is a big, neurotic, unnerved and unnerving man who believes his wife is planning to cheat on him. His response: drug her and keep her knocked out until her paramour goes away. The plan works about as well as should be expected and, over several days, a number of people are sucked into Harry's manic, snowballing energy as it becomes an eventual avalanche of (hysterically funny) psychosis. Before embarking on his great career directing his own groundbreaking avant-garde plays, Richard Foreman briefly entertained the possibility of being a commercial Broadway playwright. This 1966 boulevard comedy (which Foreman has compared accurately to the plays of Murray Schisgal) nearly made it to Broadway, which very well might have meant a very different career for Foreman. It's not what you probably know from him, but it's as funny as his best work, and any line from it, out of context, would not sound out of place in one of his later plays. Really.
- Ian W Hill
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Hcohtienla; Or, Hotel China
1st Produced:
New York
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
excerpts in "Performance 2", New York, April
1972
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Honor
1st Produced:
New York
1973
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Hotel For Criminals
1st Produced:
New York
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
in "Love & Science", Hearn, London
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Notes: music Stanley Silverman
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Ida-Eyed
1st Produced:
New York
1969
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RICHARD FOREMAN
King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe
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Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Lava
1st Produced:
New York
1989
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1st Published:
in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York
1992
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Lines Of Vision
1st Produced:
New York
1976
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Notes: music Quincy, lyrics Forns
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Livre De Splendeurs (Part 1)
1st Produced:
Paris
1976
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Love And Science
1st Produced:
Stockholm
1987
Company:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York
1991
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Luogo + Bersaglio (Place + Target
1st Produced:
Rome
1979
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Madame Adare
1st Produced:
New York
1980
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Notes: music by Stanley Silverman
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Maria del Bosco
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1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Mind King, The
1st Produced:
New York
1992
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Miss Universal Happiness
1st Produced:
New York
1985
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RICHARD FOREMAN
My Head Was A Sledgehammer
1st Produced:
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1999
Company:
Cutting Ball Theatre
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RICHARD FOREMAN
Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty
1st Produced:
Ontological Theater at St Marks, New York
2001
Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group
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