Julie Taymor : playing with fire : theater, opera, film / Eileen Blumenthal, Julie Taymor.

Author
Blumenthal, Eileen, 1948- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Updated and expanded edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : H.N. Abrams, [1999]
  • ©1999
Description
240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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    "Julie Taymor is one of the most imaginative and provocative directors and designers working in the performing arts. Her productions range from musicals and Shakespeare plays - among them The Lion King, Juan Darien, and The Tempest - to classical operas and films - The Flying Dutchman, Oedipus Rex, Titus, and others. She has collaborated with such world-renowned artists as Jessye Norman, Seiji Ozawa, and Zubin Mehta, as well as with highly respected stage and film actors, including Robert Stattel and Anthony Hopkins. Her Broadway smash The Lion King won six Tony Awards, including two for her direction and costume designs." "In this volume, Eileen Blumenthal traces Taymor's theatrical apprenticeship: in France, where she studied mime; at Oberlin College, where she worked with the experimental director Herbert Blau; in Indonesia, where she honed her directorial skills by immersing herself in traditional dance-drama, puppetry, and mask-making and formed her own theater company, Teatr Loh; and in New York, where she has further developed her art. Blumenthal then presents many of Taymor's major projects in theater, opera, and film. The numerous pictures illustrating Blumenthal's text include production photos, Taymor's sketches for characters and costumes, and shots of her in rehearsal and constructing puppets and masks."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Julie Taymor / Eileen Blumenthal
    • Way of Snow
    • Tirai
    • The Haggadah
    • Black Elk Lives
    • Savages
    • The King Stag
    • Liberty's Taken
    • The Transposed Heads
    • The Tempest
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • Juan Darien
    • Fool's Fire
    • Oedipus Rex
    • The Magic Flute
    • Titus Andronicus
    • Salome
    • The Flying Dutchman
    • The Green Bird
    • The Lion King
    • Titus
    • Acknowledgments / Eileen Blumenthal.
    ISBN
    • 0810935171
    • 9780810935174
    • 1881390225 ((paperback))
    • 9781881390220 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    99030225
    OCLC
    41256369
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