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

Index I-11
Los Angeles Olympics Arts Festival (1984), 301
Los Angeles Poverty Department (theatre
company), 276
Losches, Florian, 273
The Lot Drawers (Diphilos), 187
Louis XIV, King of France, 107, 204, 241
Lutvak, Steven, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love
and Murder, 47, 52, 136, 252, 288
Lydia (Solis), 260, 262, 263
M. Butterfly (Hwang), 76, 260
Mabou Mines company, 217
Mac, Taylor, 234
macaronic (mingling mix of languages) theatre,
262–263, 265
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
adaptations of, 154, 154
the conflict in, 33–34
Karin Henkel’s production of, 271
Kenneth Branagh’s direction of, 94
on “life as tale of sound and fury,” 95
mysterious “apparitions” in, 97
San Quentin production of, 277
Sleep No More reconstruction of, 286, 286
stage blood used as part of costume, 118
unusual contemporary costuming used for,
120
MacBird, 256
MacDevitt, Brian, 103, 259
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 201
Clizia, 187
Mack, Cecil, Runnin’ Wild, 243
Macmillan, Duncan, The Forbidden Zone,
308, 309
Madama Butterfly (Puccini opera), 260
The Madness of George III (Bennett), 25
The Madwoman of Chaillot (Giraudoux), 119
Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Intruder, 221
Magic Theatre (San Francisco), 260
Mahabharata (Brook), 21, 306
Mahabharata (Indian epic), 206
Mahoney, John, 291
The Maids (Genet), 118
Major Barbara (Shaw), 66, 218
makeup
ancient roots reflected by, 126
Asian theatre use of, 126
avant-garde and expressionist use of, 126
avoiding use of, 126–127
“blackface,” 126, 242
ceremonial, 125
circus and classic mime, 126
creating a face that “reads” to the house
using, 125
importance to costume design, 120, 125–127
the makeup kit, 128
paradoxical and physiognomic clues provided
by, 120
makeup artists, 141
Malone Dies (Beckett), 233
Maloney, Peter, 122
Malpica, Javier, Papá está en la Atlántida
(Our Dad Is in Atlantis), 264
Mamet, David, 74
Glengarry Glen Ross, 65, 274
A Life in the Theatre, 49
Mamma Mia (musical), 242
Manchester International Festival, 148
Mandvi, Aasif, 48
Manhattan Theatre Club (New York), 69, 159,
276, 289, 291
Maniutiu, Mihai
high concept productions by, 157
Job Experiment, 161
Romanian theatre work by, 299, 300
Mann, Aimee, 78
Mantello, Joe, 268
Marat/Sade (Weiss), 304
Marcos, Ferdinand and Imelda, 284
Margulies, Donald, Time Stands Still, 159
Marin Shakespeare Festival, 277, 278
Marisol (Rivera), 260
Mark Taper forum (Los Angeles), 12, 62, 74, 76,
112, 114, 262, 268
Mark Twain Tonight, 281
Market Theatre (Johannesburg), 298
Marks, Ken, 81
Marks, Peter, 254
Marlin, Shyla, 265
Marlowe, Christopher
as accomplished playwright, 91, 202
Tamburlaine the Great, 203
Marowitz, Charles, Shrew, 153–154
Marsh, Dominic, 315
Martinez, Rafael E., 264, 264
Marx, Karl, 215
Mary Poppins (musical), 250
Mary Poppins set design, 101, 250
masks
Antigone (Sophocles) use of, 13
antiwitchcraft, 192
classic period of Greek theatre, 194, 194
extra-large masks used in 2014 production of
Greek plays, 313
history of theatre, 13–14
makeup as inspiration for Greek, 120
Poromaskers (Senufo tribe, West Africa’s
Ivory Coast), 192
shaman use of, 191
See also costuming; makeup
master electricians, 142
Master Harold...and the Boys (Fugard), 298
Masterson, Guy, 168
Mastrobuono, Alessandro, 198
Maternity (Brieux), 218
Matthews, Fiona, 50
May, Jodhi, 167
Mayet, Frederik, 198
Mayne, Tshidi, 252
Mays, Jefferson, 47, 52, 267, 281
McAlpine, Ryan, 180
McClendon, Forrest, 64
McDonagh, Martin
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 296
Behanding in Spokane, 105, 296
The Cripple of Inishmaan, 41, 296
as English dramatist, 295
Lieutenant of Inishmore, 273, 296
The Pillowman, 273, 296
McDonald, Audra, 244
McDonald, Peter, 297
McDormand, Frances, 172
McElroy, Michael, 268
McIntyre, Blanche, 26
McKellen, Ian
“A Knight Out” performance of, 266
on experience of stage acting, 18
in panto performance, 297
Waiting for Godot role of, 49, 51, 231, 288
McKinnon, Pam, 62, 68, 258
McNally, Terrence
Corpus Christi, 274
It’s Only a Play, 26
A Perfect Ganesh, 130
McNeil, Jared, 305
McNichols, Steve, Stomp, 279
McNulty, Charles, 258, 317
McPherson, Conor
The Night Alive, 296
The Seafarer, 288, 296
The Weir, 288, 296
McTeer, Janet, 162–163
Meadow, Lynn, 69
Medea Redux (LaBute), 80
Medieval drama, 197, 199
Medoff, Mark, Children of a Lesser God, 267
Meehan, Thomas, Rocky the Musical, 10
The Meeting by the Lake (Chinese xiqu), 30
Meisner, Sanford, 45748
melodrama genre, 25
No Exit (Sartre) example of philosophical
melodrama, 231–232
Memphis! (musical), 249
Men of London, 8
Menander (Greek dramatist), 194, 195
Mendes, Sam, 25
Menken, Alan, 251, 252
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 27, 65,
155, 292
The Mercy Seat (LaBute), 99
Merkerson, S. Epatha, 63
Merlin, Jesse, 135
Merrily We Roll Along (Sondheim), 102
The Merry Widow (Lehar), 243
Metamorphosis (Berkoff), 304
metaphoric scenery, 91–94
metatheatre
description of, 229
Six Characters in Search of an Author
( Pirandello) example of, 229–230, 229
metatheatre (or metadrama) plays, 314
“the Method” (acting style), 41, 43, 44–45
Meyer, Patrick, K-2, 96
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 146–147, 222
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare),
21, 53, 88, 95, 314
Brook’s production of, 92, 93, 306
The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan), 242
Miles, Ruthie Ann, 284
Millennium Approaches, 75
Miller, Arthur, 74
After the Fall, 30
All My Sons, 135, 287
The Crucible, 71
Death of a Salesman, 23–24, 33,
46–47
The Misfits, 82
puzzling over a play’s duration, 21
The Ride Down Mount Morgan, 51
Ming Cho Lee, 96
Minnelli, Liza, 150
The Miracle Worker (Gibson), 35, 53
Miranda, Lin-Manual, 246, 254, 267, 269
Mirkovich, Sean, 277
Mirren, Helen, 47
Misalliance (Shaw), 71
The Misanthrope (Molière), 58
mise-en-scene, 29
Les Misérables (Schönberg and Boublil), 251
The Misfits (Miller), 82
Miss Julie (Mitchell), 307
Miss Julie (Strindberg), 220
Miss Saigon (Boublil), 242, 252, 262, 269