| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 197, vii pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. American patrol: New fads, ancient truths -- Yale idea: an address to students as the School of Drama -- A new conspiracy theory: Lenny -- Cultural schizophrenia -- On the new cultural conservatism -- Freedom and constraint in the American theatre - 2. Home thoughts from abroad: A tale of two cities -- Two plays about Ireland: Richard's Cork leg and The Ballygombeen bequest -- Art in an age of ideology: England's Ireland -- Reflections on privacy -- Great American tragedy -- Repertory in the doldrums -- Curses of Caliban: Kaspar -- Mr. Arden versus Mr. Jones -- Evolution of a woman: A doll's house -- Sam Shepard's America: The unseen hand -- Acting in England and America -- Limits of English realism -- Thebes and Watergate -- In defense of repertory theatre -- Window on the world: the World Theatre Festival -- Prevalence of style:The cherry orchard -- Contemporary English theatre: mirror or lamp? -- Back to the wilderness: the open theatre -- 3. Back again: Profession is not supporting the profession! -- No more masterpieces revisited: a speech to the Shakespeare '74 convention at Brooklyn College -- A dean's goodbye: a speech to the graduates of the School of Drama -- Broadway and the nonprofit theatre: a misalliance -- Seminal and consumer theatre -- Money crisis and the performing arts -- Theatre and the university -- News theatre. |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
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Theater -- England.
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England. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927- Culture watch. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1975 (OCoLC)643646864 |
| ISBN |
0394498143 : $7.95 |
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9780394498140 |
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