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

Index I-15
rehearsed performance
characteristics of, 17, 19
description of, 17
Reinholz, Randy, 262
Renaissance
costume designs during the, 116
dance at the end of a performance, 168
“drawing machines” during, 136
music used in plays of the, 240
scenic designers of the, 90
Shakespearean era in England, 202
theatrical achievements during the, 107
timeline and description of, 201
Rent (musical), 242
repertory, 8
Resident Ensemble Players (Delaware), 82
Reza, Yasmina
Art, 288, 303, 304
Conversations After a Burial, 304
God of Carnage, 288, 302, 304
How You Talk the Game, 304
Life X 3, 304
as theatrical luminary, 302, 303, 304
Rhinoceros (Ionesco), 156
Rhys, Matthew, 200
Ribot, Théodule Armand, 44
Rice, Elmer
The Adding Machine, 99, 226, 227
Street Scene, 227
Subway, 227
Richard II (Shakespeare), 46
Richard III (Shakespeare), 25, 70, 98, 120,
285, 288
Richards, Lloyd, 258
Rickman, Alan, 83, 109, 272
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (Miller), 51
Rimbaud, Arthur, 221
Ripley, Alice, 254
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(Brecht), 233, 241
rituals
contemporary examples of, 189
definition of, 189
Dionysian worship, 2
dithyramb fertility ritual (ancient Greece),
193
Dogon performers dona ritual, 189
Mudmen hunting ritual (South Pacific), 189
San Bushmen (Botswana), 188, 191
The River (Butterworth), 288
Rivera, José
Marisol, 260
The Mysteries, 260, 262
Sermon of the Senses, 260, 262
Robbins, Jerome
Fiddler on the Roof choreography and direction
by, 247
Gypsy choreography and direction by, 247
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway collection of
dances by, 247
“Small House of Uncle Thomas” ballet,
246–247
West Side Story choreography by, 247
Robbins, Tim, Cradle Will Rock (film), 245
Robinson, Roger, 71
Rocky the Musical (Meehan), 10
set designer for, 93–94
Roderiguez, Onahuoa, 262
Rodgers, Richard
Babes in Arms, 243
Carousel, 242, 245
A Connecticut Yankee, 243
Dearest Enemy, 243
Flower Drum Song, 76
The King and I, 245
Oklahoma!, 242, 245, 246, 248
On Your Toes, 243
Pal Joey, 244
The Sound of Music, 242
South Pacific, 123
Rogers, Will, 242
The Romance of Magno Rubio (Carter), 263
Romanian National Theatre Festival (Bucharest),
161
Romanian theatre, 156, 299–300
Romanticism, 204–205
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Cornerstone Theater production of, 278
the exposition during, 33
plot structure of, 27
“two-hours traffic” duration of, 21
La Ronde (Schnitzler), 220
Rose, Reginald, 12 Angry Men, 168
The Rose (Shakespearean theatre), 3, 91
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
( Stoppard), 292–293, 313
Rosenthal, Todd, 289
Ross, Finn, 133, 135
Ross, Jerry
Damn Yankees, 245, 247
Pajama Game, 245, 247
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac, 125, 205
Rothko, Mark, 12
Royal Court Theatre (London), 261, 272, 276,
295, 306
Royal era theatre, 204
Royal National Theatre (England), 101, 306
Royal Shakespeare Company (England)
Katie Mitchell as director for, 306
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1970)
production by, 93
Othello (2009) production by, 34
Patrick Stewart’s performances with, 49
Peter Brook as codirector of, 304
Romeo and Juliet (2004) production by, 200
year-round Shakespeare productions by, 204,
295–296
Ruf, Éric, 205
Rugmangadacharitam, 207
Ruhl, Sarah
The Clean House, 83, 84, 263
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, 83–84
early life and career of, 83–85
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),
83, 84–85, 84
The Oldest Boy, 83
Passion Play, 61
Seventy-Five Essays I Don’t Have Time to
Write, 85
theatre contributions by, 258
Ruined (Nottage), 159, 259, 273, 291
Rumsfeld, David, 272
Runnin’ Wild (Johnson and Mack), 243
Runyon, Damon, 245
Rusu, Christian, 161
Ruzika, Donna, 136
Ruzika, Tom, 110
Rylance, Mark
Cleopatra and Olivia, 269
Richard III, 288
Twelfth Night, 269, 270
versatility of acting by, 46
Saint Joan (Shaw), 25
Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection
( Kalidasa), 206
Salvini, Tommaso, 53
Salzburg Festival, 308
Samie, Céline, 117
Samonsky, Andrew, 123
San Bushmen (Botswana)
hunting rituals of, 191
trance dance of, 188
San Quentin Prison, 277, 278
Sands, Philippe, Torture Team, 273
Sangallo, Aristotile da, 91
Sangaré, Bakary, 117
Sanskrit dance-theatre, 206
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 304
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 152
Kean, 313
No Exit, 231–232
satyr play (Greek theatre), 196
Saved, 256
Sayre, Loretta Ables, 123
Scardifield, Simon, 270
The Scarlett Letter (Hawthorne), 63, 76
The Scene (Rebeck), 83
scenery
as area of design, 89–90
basic staging formats, 92
creating the Delacorte Theatre (Central Park),
103, 105
development of European indoor stages and,
90–91
Humble Boy (Jones), 97
as intrinsic to the play’s action, 94
Ivanov (Chekhov), 95
K-2 (Meyer), 96
Mary Poppins, 101, 250
materials used for the, 96–99
The Mercy Seat (LaBute), 99
metaphoric, 91–94
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Quince’s
“ significant” moon, 95
postmodern design and, 94
realistic, 91, 92
Rocky the Musical, 93–94
scene designer at work, 99–105
set pieces, 96–97
Shakespeare approach to, 95
trompe l’oeil (eye-deceiving), 93
scenery supervisor, 141
scenic artists, 141
scenic materials
lighting as, 95, 97, 106–115, 106, 109, 110,
112–115
platforms, flats, and draperies, 96
properties (props) and furniture, 98–99
sound, 98
stage machinery, 97
Scharf, Steven, 166
Schary, Dore, Sunrise at Campobello, 35
Schenkkan, Robert, All the Way, 16, 63
Schlieper, Nick, 118
Schnitzler, Arthur, La Ronde, 220
scholarly critics, 317
Schönberg, Claude-Michel
Les Misérables, 251
Miss Saigon, 252
The School for Wives (Molière), 175–186
Schreiber, Liev, 65, 118
Schulz, Jana, 154, 271
Schumann, Peter, 283