Plays for The Public
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“There’s an irresistible joy to reading these plays…examining them at leisure without the urgent propulsive forward movement of the theater, reveals beauties and resonances uniquely literary.” —Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater, from his foreword
Plays for The Public includes:
The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah)
“Richard Foreman is the ultimate theater auteur and mind-roiling warlock of avant-garde drama… Gods is an extravaganza of tightly orchestrated hallucinogenic visual effects, bruising slapstick and intense, cryptic lines… It is majestically mad and funny.” —New York Times
Idiot Savant
“Vintage Foreman: ravishing, perplexing, scary, a sensual and intellectual message for those weary of causality and psychology.” —Time Out New York
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes
“What makes Mr. Foreman’s work so entertaining is his ability to turn these classic, head-scratching concerns into phantasmagorical vaudevilles in which all the world’s a stage that keeps changing shape on you… Mr. Foreman is a grandmaster.” —New York Times
This volume features the two plays sumptuously produced at The Public Theater in New York City that mark the culmination of Richard Foreman’s unstintingly inventive, astonishing career in theater, just as he was beginning to devote his creative energies entirely to filmmaking.
Ann Preston-Jones
Ann Preston-Jones has an extensive knowledge of the county’s archaeology, with over thirty years’ experience working for Historic England and Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Her experience is mostly in the care, conservation and management of those sites which make Cornwall special and she has a particular passion for sculptured stone monuments.
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Plays for The Public - Ann Preston-Jones
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes:
A True Romance
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes: A True Romance. Co-produced by the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Richard Foreman, Founding Artistic Director; Mimi Johnson, Managing Director) and The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director). Presented at The Public Theater, New York City. April 30–June 2, 2013. Written, directed and designed by Richard Foreman.
A large paneled room with banquette.
GABRIELLA: Número One.
(All enter. Alfredo goes to mirror, shines it.)
VOICE: End of play.
ALFREDO: OK. When looking into a mirror
What one sees—goddammit.
GABRIELLA: Is this true?
Why does one feel
one is falling towards the center
of the earth?
ALFREDO: Like this. (Falls)
GABRIELLA: The entire earth—
I force myself to say that.
SUZIE: No no no and no.
ALFREDO: Oh yes, I now say.
SAMUEL: During my leisurely promenade
Through the dark streets
of the city of the dead and the almost
dead
It comes to my mind …
But perhaps, ladies and gentlemen,
it is best never to speak openly about
such things.
But it did happen
That traveling these streets
in bright sunlight
An old man with white hair
Shabbily dressed, trudging slowly
in the direction opposite to the one
in which I was traveling
carrying a large, soiled cardboard box
holding what personal belongings
I could not guess
But—whispered hoarsely under his breath
Go to Berkeley, make film.
I did not respond.
But I frowned
And a few seconds later
turned to watch him proceed, slowly
down the street.
(Girls giggle.)
Later in the day
Lying on the bed in my hotel room
I wondered—
SUZIE AND GABRIELLA: Ooo …
SAMUEL: I wondered should I have approached him
to ask for clarification.
Was he speaking to me
or to himself?
—yet it seemed appropriate to my concerns—
And my possible
Future.
GABRIELLA: Go to Berkeley, my friend,
make film.
SUZIE: Well, why not?
GABRIELLA: Which could have meant, not the city in sundrenched California—
SUZIE: But possibly the long-dead Irish philosopher of idealism, Bishop George Berkeley—
GABRIELLA: Oooo