Word: brustein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Akalaitis and ART Director Robert Brustein have defended their production on the grounds that Beckett has made revisions in the staging when he produced the play himself and that Beckett has permitted other unusual stagings, such as a flooded warehouse being used as the theatre for a 1983 production of the play. Generally, the law is not on their side. Beckett can allow particular changes in his play without opening the floodgates to any changes. If Beckett thinks a flooded stage is okay as a backdrop for minimalist drama, but a ravaged T-stop is not, that is his legal...
...licensed the ART's production and without having seen the show, demanded that the ART remove Beckett's name, call it an adaptation, or halt the production completely. Throughout the ensuing controversy, the representatives repeatedly addressed public complaints to the press before speaking with ART Artistic Director Robert S. Brustein, failed to contact the ART's legal counted about impending court action until the day before opening night, and--bending over backwards for an imperial opinion--sent the producer of a competing New York production of Endgame to preview the ART's production...
Akalaitis said that when ART's artistic director Robert S. Brustein asked her to direct the production. "I knew I didn't want to do a thoughtful metaphysical Endgame...
...season [Friday, October 26], but I must deny ever having made the statement attributed to me regarding how all of our productions go to Broadway or off-Broadway. It's inaccurate, first of all, and secondly it suggests a policy directly contrary to our philosophy and practice. Robert Brustein ART Artistic Director...
...Brustein adds, "Most people don't realize how starved they are aesthetically until they have a genuine aesthetic experience...