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Traces the life and early career of director, scholar, and theorist Herbert Blau, one of the most innovative voices in American theatre. His powerfully written, candid autobiography recalls his activist resistance to the McCarthy witch-hunts, as well as his emergence as a revolutionary director and dramatist, including the notorious production of Waiting for Godot at the maximum-security prison San Quentin, which became the insignia of the The...

A panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage

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Traces the complex life and career of director, scholar, and theorist Herbert Blau, one of the most innovative voices in the American theatre. From his earliest years on the streets of Brooklyn, to the often embattled, now-legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, the powerfully told story of Blau's first four decades is also a social history, moving from the Great Depression to the cold war.

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Reflections on Samuel Beckett by renowned director and theorist Herbert Blau

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Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from thetheatricalized activism of the sixties into the theoretical activism of theeighties. The essays theorize rather than formulate an ideological program. Blautakes risks at the speculative edge of thought. The Eye of Prey is comprised ofdiverse subject matter: love and mourning, play and aging, radical feminist andhomosexual discourse, the politics of representation, comedy since the A...