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

I-16 Index
Schüttler, Katharina, 275
Schwartz, Stephen, 251
Schwartz, Steven, 252
Scofield, Paul, 47, 168, 304
The Scottsboro Boys (Stroman), 64, 248, 249,
252, 281
The Scottsboro Boys (Thompson), 64
scripted performance
characteristics of, 17, 19
description of, 17
Se Llama Cristina (Solis), 260
The Seafarer (McPherson), 288, 296
The Seagull (Chekhov), 40, 218, 307, 313
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe (Wagner), 281
self-recognition, as objective of tragedy, 22, 23
Sellars, Peter, 157
Seminar (Rebeck), 83
Serban, Andrei, 155, 157, 299, 300
Serious Money (Churchill), 237–239, 238
Serlio, Sebastiano, 91, 107
Sermon of the Senses (Rivera), 260, 262
Serrand, Dominique, 157, 171
Seurat, Georges, 135, 249
The Seven Sisters (1860), 242
Seventy-Five Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write
(Ruhl), 85
Sex and the City (TV show), 83
Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (Bogosian), 281
Sexaholix, 283
sexual-preference issues, 265–266
Shaffer, Peter
Black Comedy, 30
Equus, 35
Shakespeare festivals
as distinctly American theatre form, 291, 292
The Greenshow (Utah Shakespeare Festival),
291
Marin Shakespeare Festival, 277, 278
New York Shakespeare Festival, 40, 269
North American Shakespeare festivals, 292
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 269, 292
Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada),
296, 299
Utah Shakespeare Festival, 88, 120, 136, 175,
219, 291
Shakespeare, William
approach to scenery by, 95
Chamberlains’ Men (later King’s Men)
troupe, 11, 202
debate over did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?,
201
Globe part-ownership by, 202
as Men of London member, 8
parody of genre concept by, 24
as Renaissance playwright, 202
Shakespearean era
Chamberlain’s Men (later King’s Men)
troupe, 11, 202
costumes of the, 116
the plays of the, 202
playwrights of, 202
The Rose Theatre, 3, 91
The Swan Theatre, 3
The Globe Theatre, 3–4, 9, 200, 202
Shakespearean plays
Antony and Cleopatra, 49, 50, 51
As You Like It, 202
The Comedy of Errors, 26, 171
Hamlet, 24, 27, 61, 117, 153, 301–302, 304,
313, 314, 315
Henry IV, Part II, 203
Henry V, 93, 95, 286
inclusion of music in, 240
Julius Caesar, 116, 120, 154
King Lear, 19, 23, 30, 47, 61, 62, 117, 147,
162, 168, 269, 304
King Richard II, 46
macaronic (mingling mix of languages) used
in, 262
Macbeth, 33–34, 94, 95, 97, 118, 120, 154,
154, 271, 277
The Merchant of Venice, 27, 65, 155, 292
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 21, 53, 88, 95,
306, 314
Much Ado about Nothing, 106, 168
Othello, 34, 53, 61, 93, 295
Pericles, 202
prison inmates productions of, 276, 277, 278
Richard II, 46
Richard III, 25, 70, 98, 120, 285, 288
Romeo and Juliet, 21, 27, 33, 200
as source for modern dramas, 188, 202
The Taming of the Shrew, 154, 245, 270
The Tempest, 136
Titus Andronicus, 116
Twelfth Night, 46
use of puppets in, 133
Winter’s Tale, 123
Shakur, Tupac, 250
Sham, Kirsten, 291
shamans
description and history of ancient, 190–191
trance and performance by, 191
Shameless Theatre company, 266
Shameless (TV show), 74
Shange, Ntozake, 126
Shankman, Adam, 258
Shanley, John Patrick
Doubt, 288
Outside Mullingar, 122
The Shape of Things to Come (LaBute), 78
Shapiro, Anna, 258
Shapiro, Anna D., 289
Sharkah, Juma, 261
Sharrock, Thea, 58
Shattuck, Roger, 224
Shaw, George Bernard
Don Juan in Hell, 221
Irish birth, 296
Major Barbara, 66, 218
Misalliance, 71
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 218
Niagara-on-the-Lake festival for, 296
Pygmalion, 245
Saint Joan, 25
symbolist influence on, 221
Widowers’ Houses, 218
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 296
Sheik, Duncan, 253
Shepard, Matthew, 25
Shepard, Sam
Fool for Love, 31, 90
as playwright and director, 60
Sher, Bartlett, 71
Sheridan, Richard, 296
Sherman, Martin, Bent, 267
Shockey, Jeremy, 127
Shockheaded Peter, 283–284
shop foreman, 141
Shopping and Fucking (Ravenhill), 274, 276
Shore, Howard, The Fly, 76
Show Boat (Ferber), 243–244
Show Boat (Kern and Hammerstein), 243
Shrek: the Musical, 125
Shrew (Marowitz), 153–154
Shuffle Along (Blake and Sissle), 243, 249
Shun-Kin, 284
Shut Up and Love Me (Finley), 271
Siamese twins, original, 262
Sibiu International Theatre Festival, 156, 285,
286
Signature Theatre (Washington, D.C.), 76, 303
Sigurdsson, Ingvar E., 89
Silence (Pinter), 67
“silent conversation” in performance art, 271
Silverman, Leigh, 266
Simon, Neil, 236
Simonson, Eric, Lombardi, 10
Sin, a Cardinal Deposed (Murphy), 272
Sinhalese sanniyakuma ceremony, 191–192
The Sinners’ Place (Parks), 77
Sissle, Noble, Shuffle Along, 243, 249
Sisson, Narelle, 217
Sisyphus (mythological Corinthian king), 232
site-specific performance
“immersive” form of, 284, 286
“panoramic” form of, 285
Sibiu International Theatre Festival staged
around streetcar, 285, 286
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello),
229–230, 229, 313
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks light plot, 110
666 (pantomime performance), 288
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (Fugard), 298
Skylight (Hare), 63
Slater, Stephen
Spring Awakening music by, 253
“Totally Fucked,” 253
Slavs! Thinking about the Longstanding
Problems of Virtue and Happiness
( Kushner), 75
Sleep No More, 286, 286
“Small House of Uncle Thomas” ballet
( Robbins), 246–247
Smalls, Charlie
Bubbling Brown Sugar, 249
Eubie, 249
The Wiz, 249
Smash (TV show), 74
Smith, Anna Deveare, 258
Fires in the Mirror, 281
Lay Me Down Easy, 283
Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, 281
Smith, Austin, 265
Smith, Liz, 29
Smith, Rae, 136
Smyth, Alan, 82
Socrates, on the paradox of acting, 39
A Soldier’s Play (Fuller), 258
Solis, Octavio
Lydia, 260, 262, 263
La Posada Mágica (The Magic Journey), 263
Se Llama Cristina, 260
solo performance, 281–283
Son, Diana, 262
Sondheim, Stephen
Assassins, 249
Company, 248
Follies, 248
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum, 248
influence on modern musical by, 248–249