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

Index I-13
O’Hara, John, 244
O’Hara, Kelli, 113
Oklahoma! (film), 245
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein),
242, 245, 246, 248
“Ol’ Man River” (Show Boat), 244
The Old Lady (Wilson), 256
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (Eliot), 251
Old Vic Theatre (London), 49, 51
The Old Woman (Wilson), 302
The Oldest Boy (Ruhl), 83
Olivier, Lawrence, 47, 53
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco (Chekhov), 281
On the Town (Bernstein), 245, 288
On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart), 243
Ondine (Giraudoux), 136
O’Neal, John, 276
O’Neill, Destin, 135
O’Neill, Eugene
The Hairy Ape, 226–229, 227
The Iceman Cometh, 216
Long Day’s Journey into Night, 220
Strange Interlude, 30
Ontological-Hysteric Company, 223
open theatre
authors and directors attracted to, 257
description of, 257
women playwrights and directors attraction
to, 257–258
Open Theatre (Chaikin, 1960s and 1970s), 257
opening night, 173
Opera Australia, 241
opéra bouffe (satirical comic opera), 242–243
Oram, Christopher, 94
Orange is the New Black (TV show), 74
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 269, 292
Oresteia (Aeschylus), 2, 21
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach), 243
Osborne, John, Look Back in Anger, 29
Ostermeier, Thomas, 157, 275, 298
Oswald, Kirsty, 93, 295
Othello (Shakespeare), 34, 53, 61, 93, 295
Outside Mullingar (Shanley), 122
Pacific Overtures (Sondheim), 249
pacing, 170–172
Pacino, Al, 41, 45, 282, 291
Page, Anthony, 162–163
Pains of Youth (Bruckner), 307
Pajama Game (Adler and Ross), 245, 247
Pal Joey (Rodgers and Hart), 244
Palfreyman, Scott, 182
“panoramic theatre,” 285
“panto” (pantomime) performance, 297
pantomime performance (666), 288
Papá está en la Atlántida (Our Dad Is in
Atlantis) [Malpica], 264
Papp, Joseph, 269
Pappelbaum, Jan, 275
parabolic aluminized reflectors (PARs), 111
Paradise (1490 production), 107
Paradise Now, 256
paradox of acting
“Paradox of Acting” (Diderot) on, 13, 40–41
Socrates on the, 39
Park Avenue Armory (New York), 94, 157, 169
Parker, Mary Louise, 291
Parker, Trey
The Book of Mormon, 103, 103, 242, 252,
254, 254, 288
South Park (TV show) creator, 254
Parks, Suzan-Lori, 74
The American Play, 67, 77, 82
early life and career, 77
Father Comes Home From the Wars, 81, 81
Fucking A, 63
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, 154, 244,
249–250, 259
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third
Kingdom, 77, 81
In the Blood, 76–77
as Pulitzer Prize winner, 82, 258
The Sinners’ Place, 77
Topdog/Underdog, 82, 259
Venus, 82
Watch Me Work, 77, 81
Parnell, Peter, 251
Parsons, Estelle, 172
Pask, Scott
Airline Highway design by, 104
Behanding in Spokane design by, 105
The Book of Mormon design by, 103, 103
Hair design by, 103, 105
Merrily We Roll Along model by, 102
photo essay on scene designer, 102–105
Pippin design by, 104
Pasquale, Steven, 113
Pasquini, Michael, 178, 182
Passion Play (Ruhl), 61
passion plays
Abydos Passion Play (ancient Egypt), 93, 193
Oberammergau Passion Play, 198
Passion Play (Ruhl) modern interpretation
of, 61
Passion (Sondheim), 249
Patch, Jerry, 159
A Christmas Carol, 290
Paulhofer, Christina, 99
Paulus, Diane, 104, 154, 244, 250
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 217
Penn, Sean, 282
Pentecost (Edgar), 263
The Peony Pavilion (16th-century kungu
masterpiece), 207
Perestroika, 75
A Perfect Ganesh (McNally), 130
performance
actor’s “high” from, 58
actor’s routine of, 57
description of, 14–15
dramaturgy: construction of drama an
dramatic, 26–36
film stars on experience of stage, 18
live, 16–17
maintaining spontaneity during weeks
and months, 57
“panto” (pantomime), 297
presentational (or direct), 15, 16
representational (or indirect), 15–16
scripted and rehearsed, 17, 19
solo, 281–283
See also acting; puppet performance; theatre
performance art, 271
performance studies, 313
Performing Garage (New York), 281
La Périchole (Offenbach), 243
Pericles (Shakespeare), 202
Perry, Ernest, Jr., 219
Peter and Jerry (now At Home in the Zoo)
(Albee), 68
Peter and the Starcatcher (Elice), 63
Peter Pan (Barrie), 168, 221
Peterson, Robert, 106
Peymann, Claus, 298
Phantom of the Opera (Webber)
as musical theatre, 242
one of the longest-running Broadway
musicals, 251
spectacle of chandelier crashing in, 29, 251, 269
surpassed by The Lion King, 250
Philadelphia (Friel), 296
Philip IV, King of Spain, 204
Phillips, Scott, 175
philosophical melodrama, No Exit (Sartre)
example of, 231–232
The Phoenician Women (Mitchell director),
306–307
physical theatre, 279–281
The Pillowman (McDonagh), 273, 296
Pilobolus dance troupe, 280
Pinkard, Maceo, How Come?, 243
Pinte, Gavriil, The Cioran Tempration, 285, 286
Pinter, Harold
No Man’s Land, 49
Silence, 67
theatre of the absurd works by, 232
Pippin (musical), 104, 112, 113, 114
Pirandello, Luigi, 281
Six Characters in Search of an Author,
229–230, 229, 313
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan),
241, 242
Piscator, Erwin, 134
Plato (Greek philosopher), 39
Plautus
Casina, 187
works of, 197
Play (Beckett), 106
play classification
duration, 21–22
genre, 22–25
play genre
definition and significance of, 22–23
the history play, 25
introduction to comedy, 22, 24–25, 26
introduction to melodrama, 25
introduction to musical, 25
introduction to tragedy, 22–24
introduction to tragicomedy, 25
modern inventions of new, 23–24
Shakespeare’s parody of the concept of, 24
See also specific genre
play qualities
celebration of life, 72
compression, economy, and intensity, 71–72
credibility and intrigue, 63–66
depth of characterization, 70
gravity and pertinence, 70–71
richness, 68–70
speakability, stageability, and flow, 66–67
Playhouse in the Park (Cincinnati), 82
Playland (Fugard), 298
plays
actor routine during course of the, 55–58
adapting, 154–155
artistic quality of, 312–313
classification of, 21–25
created from films, 2
description and experience of, 20
entertainment value of, 314–315
human significance of, 311–312
macaronic (mingling mix of languages) used
in, 262–263, 265