Author: Foreman, RichardAn avant-garde comrade of Jonas Mekas, George Maciunas, Jack Smith and others, Richard Foreman was at the forefront of downtown New York’s experimental theatre scene of the 1960s. He wrote and directed more than 80 verbally and visually singular productions in a career that spanned 45 years. Handwritten on a series of note cards, the aphoristic declarations and philosophical asides of this text hover between a stream-of-consciousness dialogue and a message sent from another world. Foreman’s visually arresting plays made heavy use of static tableaux, frantic choreography, projected text and Foreman himself sitting in front of the stage operating the lights and sound. Foreman’s wonderfully elliptical words are counterposed with photographs of the mystifying diorama-like maquettes that he created while staging a number of his plays.ISBN 9780997645644. Christine Burgin | Further Reading Library. hb. 88 pages. 103 colour, 1 b/w ills. 17.8 x 12.1 cm.in stock
