Charles Ludlam Lives

Author : Sean Edgecomb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472053551

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Charles Ludlam Lives! by Sean Edgecomb Pdf

Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943–1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community. Author Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on the neo-Ridiculous artists Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac to trace the connections between Ludlam’s legacy and their performances, using alternative queer models such as kinetic kinship, lateral historiography, and a new approach to camp. Charles Ludlam Lives! demonstrates that the queer legacy of Ludlam is one of distinct transformation—one where artists can reject faithful interpretations in order to move in new interpretive directions.

Author : Sean F. Edgecomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472904051

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Charles Ludlam Lives! by Sean F. Edgecomb Pdf

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 155783637X

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Ridiculous! by David Kaufman Pdf

(Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015028424094

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Ridiculous Theatre by Charles Ludlam Pdf

Author : Rick Roemer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786445106

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Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company by Rick Roemer Pdf

In the late 1960s, Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) brought his unique brand of theatre to New York audiences. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his "ridiculous" school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, and opera. His shows were also a study in self-collaboration; Ludlam acted as playwright, director, designer, and actor in his own Off Broadway theatre--the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Critically, Ludlam's works were often overlooked or misunderstood, and since his death The Mystery of Irma Vep is the only one of his 29 plays consistently performed in regional theatres. This work provides an overview of Ludlam's life, explores the theatrical underpinnings of his work and goes on to cover the entire Ludlam canon. The book includes examinations of such plays as Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Bluebeard, Galas and Stage Blood. It concludes with a look at Ludlam's work in the 1980s when he focused on presenting new plays, many of them original farces.

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056439741

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Ridiculous! by David Kaufman Pdf

RIDICULOUS! THE THEATRICAL LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES LUDLAM

Author : Bonnie Marranca,Gautam Dasgupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015039924785

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Theatre of the Ridiculous by Bonnie Marranca,Gautam Dasgupta Pdf

As a theatrical form, the "ridiculous" thrived in the 1970s and early 1980s, playfully subverting dramatic and social convention in its mix of camp, role-playing, literary and cinematic allusions--and anticipating the current interest in gender, cross-dressing, and popular culture. Originally published in 1979, THEATRE OF THE RIDICULOUS (now revised and updated) was the first book to document this innovative and challenging form.

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640467

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The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam Pdf

Cover title: The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. presents Charles Ludlam's The mystery of Irma Vep.

Author : Rick Roemer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015003462844

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Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company by Rick Roemer Pdf

Ludlam (1943-1987) first brought his unique brand of theater to New York audiences in the late 1960s. Based in part on traditional comic characters, his ridiculous school included such inspirations as Hollywood B movies, camp, drag, opera and theatrical artifice. The author provides an overview of Ludlam's life, exploring the theatrical underpinnings of his work and then the whole Ludlam canon. A look at Ludlam's work in the 1980s concludes the work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American farces
ISBN : UOM:39076001042691

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The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam by Charles Ludlam Pdf

Author : Jill C. Stevenson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472132850

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Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances by Jill C. Stevenson Pdf

How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience--and feel--their place within the future history of humankind

Author : David Roman,Sean Edgecomb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472220021

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The Taylor Mac Book by David Roman,Sean Edgecomb Pdf

This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang the history of the United States for 24 straight hours in October 2016. The MacArthur Foundation soon thereafter awarded their “genius” award to a “writer, director, actor, singer, and performance artist whose fearlessly experimental works dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community . . . [and who] interacts with the audience to inspire a reconsideration of assumptions about gender, identity, ethnicity, and performance itself.” Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac’s theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques, and the creativity they display through stylistic and formal qualities and the unorthodoxies of their personal and professional trajectories. Contributors consider the range of Mac’s career as a playwright, performer, actor, and singer, expanding and enriching the conversation on this much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of work.

Author : Charles Ludlam
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychiatrists
ISBN : 0573691231

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Reverse Psychology by Charles Ludlam Pdf

"This hilarious farce by the author of The Mystery of Irma Vep is about a husband and wife, both psychiatrists, who are each having an affair with a patient of the other who are also husband and wife! One patient is struggling to overcome her inability to have sex in bed and her compulsion to buy lawn mowers at Bloomingdale's. Her doctor would rather ridicule mental illness and make social engagements than listen to her babble on. The other patient, an artist, is desperate for recognition; whereas his psychiatrist is unduly worried that latent bed wetters might ruin the couch." --Descripción del editor.

Author : Betty Fussell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453218433

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My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell Pdf

A fierce and funny memoir of kitchen and bedroom from James Beard Award winner Betty Fussell A survivor of the domestic revolutions that turned American television sets from Leave It to Beaver to The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Julia Child’s The French Chef, food historian and journalist Betty Fussell has spotlighted the changes in American culture through food over the last half century in nearly a dozen books. In this witty and candid autobiographical mock epic, Fussell survives a motherless household during the Great Depression, gets married to the well-known writer and war historian Paul Fussell after World War II, goes through a divorce, and finally escapes to New York City in her mid-fifties, batterie de cuisine intact. My Kitchen Wars is a revelation of the author’s lifelong love affair with food—cooking it, eating it, and sharing it—no matter where or with whom she finds herself. From Princeton to Heidelberg and from London to Provence, Fussell ladles out food, sex, and travel with her wooden spoon, welcoming all who come to the table.

Author : Billy J. Harbin,Kim Marra,Robert A. Schanke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0472098586

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The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy by Billy J. Harbin,Kim Marra,Robert A. Schanke Pdf

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time