RICHARD FOREMAN (1937 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Richard Foreman
Africanis Instructus |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Love & Science", Hearn, London | - | ||
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Notes: music by Stanley Silverman | ||||
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American Imagination, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music by Stanley Silverman | ||||
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Angelface |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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Bad Behaviour |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group | - | ||
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Bad Boy Nietzsche! |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group | - | ||
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Blvd. De Paris (I've Got The Shakes) |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Book Of Splendors (Part II: Book Of Levers: Action At A Distance |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Theater, New Haven, Connecticut, Spring | 1978 | ||
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Caf Amrique |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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Classical Therapy; Or, A Week Under The Influence . . . |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Cure, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York | 1992 | ||
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Deep Stories: From the Notebooks of Richard Foreman |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Alternative Theatre Machine [ATM] | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Multi-Media Performance Art, 75 min | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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. . . | ||||
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | The Ontological-Hysteric Theater | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
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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 | ||||
Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre |
| 1st Produced: | Lenox, Massachusetts | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music Silverman, Lyrics Hendry | ||||
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Dream Tantras For Western Massachusetts |
| 1st Produced: | Lenox, Massachusetts | 1971 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music Stanley Silverman | ||||
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Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 1 |
| 1st Produced: | Seattle, Washington | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Eddie Goes To Poetry City: Part 2 |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Egyptology: My Head Was A Sledgehammer |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Elephants-Steps |
| 1st Produced: | Lenox, Massachusetts | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music Stanley Silverman | ||||
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Evidence |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: aka 15 Minutes of Evidence | ||||
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Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
George Bataille's Bathrobe |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), The |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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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 | ||||
Hcohtienla; Or, Hotel China |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | excerpts in "Performance 2", New York, April | 1972 | ||
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Honor |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Hotel For Criminals |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Love & Science", Hearn, London | - | ||
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Notes: music Stanley Silverman | ||||
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Ida-Eyed |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group | - | ||
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Lava |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Unbalancing Acts", Pantheon, New York | 1992 | ||
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Lines Of Vision |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music Quincy, lyrics Forns | ||||
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Livre De Splendeurs (Part 1) |
| 1st Produced: | Paris | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Love And Science |
| 1st Produced: | Stockholm | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1991 | ||
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Luogo + Bersaglio (Place + Target |
| 1st Produced: | Rome | 1979 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Madame Adare |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: music by Stanley Silverman | ||||
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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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Mind King, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Miss Universal Happiness |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1985 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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My Head Was A Sledgehammer |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty |
| 1st Produced: | Ontological Theater at St Marks, New York | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "Bad Boy Nietzsche! And Other Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||