André Gregory
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters...
2) Bone songs
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"A poetic meditation on the nature of time and the importance of human relationships, Bone Songs is a kaleidoscopic whirlwind of stories, soliloquies, scenes and songs. Five characters on a vertiginous descent into a psychic twilight zone: a young couple on a freezing honeymoon in the icy wastes of Antarctica; an old widower crazed with grief; a middle-aged married couple oppressed by a frozen marriage, forced by the onslaught of illness to confront...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
"[Book title] is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. André Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal....
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone is familiar with Alice's antic adventures, and they are all here -- but with an arresting difference. From the presumed innocence of the original is drawn a caustic and giddy revelation of the human psyche and the dark, unsettling shadows which can linger there. Freud and Jung, Kafka and Dali, all make their presences felt, in a piece of pure theatre that is full of truth, fun, terror and uncanny pertinence to our own topsy-turvy times"--Publisher....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Series
Criterion collection ; 479
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
Author
Publisher
53rd State Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde, playwright Sara Farrington brings to light a series of "lost conversations" about class, race, difficulty, endurance, and privilege in the New York avant-garde of the past fifty years, as well as conversations about the ephemerality, the always-about-to-be-lostness of the medium itself. Featuring...
Series
Criterion collection ; 599
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A group of actors meet to rehearse Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and find the same conflicts in their own lives as are dealt with in the play.