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...Jan Breslauer Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 The Vaudevillian Brecht: An Interview with Bill Irwin and Robert Woodruff __ Accidental Death of an Amrchisl. Together with fellow artists, he...

... speak a communal language of York today as there was in vaudeville’s heyday. meta-vaudeville, a mixture of their intel- Which, however, is certainb nothing to go home lectual imaginations and downright camp. and brag about. Bill Irwin, The Flying Karamazov Bro...

...Joel Schechter The Age and Stage of George L. Fox by Laurence Senelick (University of New England Press, 1988). Mr. Fox: A Rumination on the Life of a Clown by Bill Irwin, with Geoff Hoyle and Friends (Seattle Rep, April, 1992). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS...

...John Bell Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theater by Catriona Kelly (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows...

... The Critical Panopticon: Essays in Theater and Contemporary Aesthetics by Mohammad Kowsar (Peter Lang, 1991). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows...

... few years ago, in a cartoon by Dik Bill Irwin has re-opened his come< A ("Hagar the Horrible") Browne, hour, The Regard of Flight. at Linco a court jester complained about Center, and a New Vaudeville...

...: cunningly everyone may be having a wonderful time, including the per- choreographed, the routine seemed, at the same time, rough, formers, but, like the critic who disrupts Bill Irwin’s “post- improvised, out of control, dangerous. The funny, tortured modem hat moves” in The Regard of Flight...

... performance traditions from text could possibly do complete justice which they spring. to the rambunctious and inspired In brief, but cogent essays Jenkins ex- physical lunacies of Bill Irwin or the fly- amines the “intellectual striptease” (p. ing Karamazov Brothers...

... 1990 claim that spoken language is no and visually. A transparent, Martha Clarke’s Endangered Species more “present” to us than written plexiglass wall separates the takes this boundary-blurring a step language. Bill Irwin turns the audience...

... the trip scenario in which Brigadier General human comprehension. “It’s frighten- itself that’s funny,” explains Bill Irwin. Hardy’s mistaken alert provokes his ing to think that you might not know “It’s the gestures and motions after- Russian counterpart, Inspector General something,” adds...

... spend of street techniques to established stage some time in the street again, in order works. In addition to the Karamazovs, to remember that it is not enough to Bill Irwin, the gifted clown who won a look as if you’re doing something fun- MacArthur grant for his performing, ny, to sound...

... in the spring issue are Heiner (Book Review) Vol. 16, no. 3, p. 95. Miiller‘s play, 7he Slaughter; an interview with Ingmar Bergman on Mehta, Xerxes. “Stratford on Stratford: RSC’s The Dillen,” (Review) Vol. hen; and an interview with Dill Irwin. 16, no. 2, p. 38...

...-92. Hoyle, Geoff, with Bill Irwin, Mr. Fox: A Mendelsohn, Susan, “The Rap on Euripides: Rumination on the Life ofa Clown (performance Creating New Texts in Urban Schools,” no. 2, 6-11. review by Joel Schechter), no. 3,94. Jenkins, Ron, “Urban Slapstick: From Chaplin’s Minwalla, Framji...

..., Guntram Weber), Vol. 17, no. Vaudevillian Brecht: An Interview with Bill Honigberg, Nadine. “The Women’s Pro- 2, p. 23; “A Letter,” (Letter, translated by Irwin and Robert Woodruff,” Vol. 17, no. ject: An Interview with Julia Miles,” (In- Marc Silberman) Vol. 17, no. 2, p. 29; “To 2, p. 37...

... criticism, see Irwin Weil’s superb study, Gorky, His Literary Development and lnfluence OR Soviety lntellectual Life. 116 ...

... of New Vaudeville, including, among areas with considerablehomeless popu- others, Bill Irwin, Geoff Hoyle, the Fly- lations. The image is complex and full ing Karamazovs and Avner the Eccen...

... Back in the Golden Age, many critics used their columns to defend New York and Bill Irwin in theater against accusations of frivolity and conventional morals providing a bulwark Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, against the legions of well-made plays pleasing Broadway audiences...

... exemplifies such theater’s potential to burst into the public domain out of the energy and chaos of social upheaval. Although the indoor theater generally failed to change its repertoire to respond to circumstances (a problem noted by Irwin Piscator...

... California in 2005, I became obsessed with attached to it so that it can act as a control- the California Light and Space Movement. ler, triggering the different lighting elements In terms of visual artists, Robert Irwin, James on the sculpture. The sculpture itself — a big, Turrell, and Doug Wheeler...

... of an Sidney Howard, Maxwell Anderson, Robert Sherwood, Lillian earlier age of mystery, which held sway before the advent of Hellman, Irwin Shaw, and Johp Steinbeck - but also of the Newtonian physics, Cartesian logic, and behavioral psychology. post-war “mood” playwrights - including...