Author: | Wallace Shawn | ISBN: | 9781559368605 |
Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group | Publication: | March 21, 2017 |
Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group | Language: | English |
Author: | Wallace Shawn |
ISBN: | 9781559368605 |
Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
Publication: | March 21, 2017 |
Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group |
Language: | English |
• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015
• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton
• Four star review in The Guardian
• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor
- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare.
- The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film.
- Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht.
- His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.
• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015
• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton
• Four star review in The Guardian
• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor
- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare.
- The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film.
- Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht.
- His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.