Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

I-4 Index
Carter, Lonnie, 262
The Romance of Magno Rubio, 263
Casina (Plautus), 187
Casper, Rainer, 109
Castillo, Lillian, 179, 183, 186
casting directors, 162–163, 164–165
Castorf, Frank, 154, 298
Endstation Amerika, 263
high concept productions by, 157
Castro, Tim, 176, 179, 184, 185, 186
The Cat in the Hat (Mitchell production),
307, 308
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 19, 70, 82
catharsis (dramatic cleansing), as objective of
tragedy, 22, 23, 35
Cathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats), 221
Cats (Webber), 251
celebration of life, 72
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (Elder), 258
Cerveris, Michael, 84
Chaikin, Joseph, 257
Chamberlain’s Men (later King’s Men)
[ Shakespearean troupe], 11, 201
Champion, Gower
Bye Bye Birdie, 247
Carnival, 247
42nd Street, 247
Hello Dolly!, 247
The Changing Room (Storey), 10
characters
elements of tragedy, 27
play’s depth of characterization and, 70
See also actors
Charles II, King of England, 204
Charlwood, Phil, 147
Cheek by Jowl Theatre (London), 295
Chekhov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard, 124, 218
Ivanov, 39, 95, 307
Kate Mitchell’s productions of works
of, 307
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco, 281
Russian realism of, 218
The Seagull, 40, 218, 307, 313
Stanislavsky association with, 218
The Three Sisters, 28, 44, 62, 119, 155–157,
218–219, 218, 307
Uncle Vanya, 28, 218
use of off-stage music by, 28
Chekhov, Michael, 43
Cheng Changgeng, 208
Chéri (Clarke), 281
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov), 124, 218
Chicago (musical), 242, 247
children, theatre and child’s play, 11
Children of a Lesser God (Medoff), 267
Chin, Unsuk, Alice in Wonderland, 76
China, xiqu (Chinese opera), 30, 30, 125,
207–209
Chinglish (Hwang), 76, 262, 263, 266
choreographer-directors
Bob Fosse, 247
emergence of contemporary, 246–248
Gower Champion, 247
Jerome Robbins, 246–247
Michael Bennett, 248
Susan Stroman, 248
A Chorus Line (Bennett), 117, 242, 247, 248
Christian baptism ritual, 189
Christie, Bunny, 90, 116, 133
A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 290
A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart’s one-man
show), 281
Chrysan, Demosthenes, 82
Chunfang Fei, 212
Churchill, Caryl
Cloud Nine, 72, 238, 269
as English dramatist, 295
Far Away, 33
Serious Money, 237–239, 238
Cielecka, Magdalena, 73
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 102
cinema
film stars on experience of stage acting, 18
plays created from films, 2
See also American cinema
Cioran, Emil, 285, 286
The Cioran Temptation (Pinte), 285, 286
Cirque du Soleil, 136, 296
CIVIL warS composition (by Robert Wilson),
301
Claessens, Benny, 154
Clarke, Martha
Chéri, 281
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 279, 280
Kaos, 281
Vienna: Lusthaus, 280–281
Classic Stage Company (New York), 98
Classics on a Shoestring company, 306
The Clean House (Ruhl), 83, 84, 263
Cleopatra and Olivia (Rylance), 269
climax
definition of dramatic, 34–35
as part of horizontal axis timeline, 34–35
Clizia (Machiavelli), 187
Close, Glenn, 116, 288
Cloud Eye Control (Los Angeles), 132
Cloud Nine (Churchill), 72, 238, 269
Clover, Andrew, 276
Clybourne Park (Norris), 62, 288, 291
Coast of Utopia (Stoppard), 21, 22
Cobb, Lee J., 57
Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami), 231
Cohan, George M., Little Johnny Jones, 243
Cohen, Robert, 141, 175, 176, 180
Cole, Bob, A Trip to Coontown, 242
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 15
color-blind casting, 267, 269
comédie ballets (Molière), 241
Comédie Française (France), 117, 155, 170,
205, 298
comedy
Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy of manners,
235–237, 236
Broadway musical, 243
commedia dell’arte, 116, 199, 201
description and characteristics of, 22, 24–25
farcical type of, 25
Italian Renaissance theatre commedia
dramatic style, 199, 201
Molière’s comédie ballets, 241
opéra bouffe (satirical comic opera), 242–243
satire type of, 25, 237–239, 238
See also play genre
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), 26, 171
Coming Home (Fugard), 298
commedia dell’arte
costumes of, 116
Italian Renaissance theatre of, 199, 201–202
masks used in, 14
women in, 257
commedia erudita, 201
community-based theatre, 276–278
community theatre, 293, 294
Company (Sondheim), 248
Complicite Theatre (London), 295
composing, 11
compression of play, 71–72
computer-aided-design (CAD) programs, 137
The Conference of the Birds (Brook), 306
conflict
definition of dramatic, 33
as part of horizontal axis timeline, 33–34
writing scenes of, 73
Congreve, William, English Restoration plays
by, 204
Conklin, John, 222
Conlin, Kathleen, 175
A Connecticut Yankee (Rodgers and Hart), 243
Los Conquistadores (Thenon), 294
Contact (Stroman), 150, 248, 281
contemporary musical
black musicals, 249–250
British, French, and Disney contributions to,
251–252
choreographer-directors of, 246–248
Disney musicals, 250–251
Stephen Sondheim’s influence on the,
248–249
of the twenty-first century, 252–254
conventions
elements of tragedy, 29–31
man paddling with an oar as
Chinese theatre, 30
Conversations After a Burial (Reza), 304
copyright issues
adapting a play and, 154
digital reproductions and, 138
Corneille, Pierre
French Royal era tragedies of, 204
The Illusion, 75
Cornerstone Theatre, 36
California: The Tempest production by,
277, 278
community of theatre practiced by, 278
example of work performed by, 277, 278
Corpus Christi (McNally), 274
Corrigan, Paul James, 274
Costa Rica National Theatre, 294
costume director (or costume shop manager),
141
costumes
accessories and hairstyles as part of, 120
early ceremonial, 116
Les Fables de la Fontaine (Wilson), 117
fabrics used for the, 119–120
the function of, 116–119
how the designer works to create, 119–120
importance of small details of, 119
makeup element of, 120, 125–127
A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams), 116
costuming
Catherine Zuber work as costume designer,
121–124
classic period of Greek theatre, 195
four functions of modern, 117, 119
how the designer works at, 119–120
of Jocasta in first presentation of Oedipus
Tyrannos, 86–87
kabuki (Japanese theatre), 212–213
makeup element of, 120, 125–127
modern conceptual and holistic approach to,
116–117