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...Wire,” which he called “the greatest television ever,” for melding Finnegans Wake-like sophistication with social engagement. “When is television ever that difficult?” he asked. English professor and director Robert Scanlan called Kushner’s lecture a brilliant play “crafted from beginning to end.” Kushner’s central theme, Scanlan said, was “that reality is sitting there and we as artists have to respond to it.” The Tanner Lectures, meant...
...build the field of drama and to attract faculty. There are other offers out. I’m not the only one. There is at least one other outstanding offer.”Indeed, since Roach declined the position, the Committee on the Dramatic Arts, headed theater professor Robert Scanlan, has made headway, including introducing a new Secondary Field in the Dramatic Arts, finally giving students recognition for their work in drama. As for Senelick’s concern that the A.R.T. has never been integrated with the faculty, Puchner is already at work closing...
From the beginning, Scanlan’s exposition made the audience aware of its own presence as an essential part of the night’s production, but also subordinated it to the future audiences of television and radio. Scanlan used this complicated awareness to emphasize the theme of the three plays: the process of creating...
...Scanlan brought the disjunction between the two types of audience into particular focus in “…but the clouds…,” introducing new elements onto the stage and expanding the triangular relationship of the first two plays physically as well as metaphorically. A video camera that served to bring the television audience into the live audience’s consciousness was featured prominently on stage—a marked contrast from the “On Air” sign that hung unobtrusively in an upper corner during the first two plays...
...Director Scanlan ingeniously explored what happens when a play is no longer just a theatrical event. With the help of an intricate and versatile score by Martin Pearlman, and skilled actors and musicians across the board, Beckett’s plays entered a completely new and living dimension of performance...