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Richard Foreman
SDCF Podcast Series
English - April 01, 2014 18:43 - 1 hour - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts theatre theater performing arts stage management direction choreography combat craft Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 - April 10, 1997. Running Time - 1:23:40 ©1997 SDCF