| Routines: Plays Contributor(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811214788 ISBN-13: 9780811214780 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: Drama. "Routines", first published by New Directions in 1964 and having gone though four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays: "The Customs Collector in Baggy Pants", taken from the discontinued UnfairArguments with Existence, and "Fuclock" and "The Waiting Room", both previously unpublished. These theater pieces explore the territory between old-style drama and the spontaneous improvisation of the "happening". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812 |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.39" W x 7.91" (0.20 lbs) 83 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A reissue of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays (1965) with three new plays added to the original thirteen. In this collection Ferlinghetti takes a revolutionary look at modern theater and explores the area between old-style drama and spontaneous improvisation by supplying a blueprint for dramatic actionan outline from which director and actors may create and interpret freely. In one called 'Our Little Trip two men in conservative suits wind themselves in and out of a long bandage while a questioner circles them seeking Meaning. Servants of the People puts on political podium hogs in torrents of cliches. Bearded Lady 'Dies' features the Second Coming all decked out for newspaper coverage. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: - In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation. |