The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559361735 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Charles Ludlam is a valiant theatrical renaissance man.” Frank Rich, New York TimesThe theatre of parody and travesty became art in the plays of Charles Ludlam, a writer and comedian who manifested in his many plays a truly Aristophanic joy, precision, wit, and shamelessness.”- Donald Lyons, Wall Street JournalFar from shying away from theatrical cliches, Ludlam indulges them to the dizzy limit; the familiar becomes the outrageous, and the result is good farce.” Chicago ReaderThe Mystery of Irma Vep is the most perfect expression of Ludlam’s approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries.” Michael Feingold, Village VoiceCharles Ludlam's manic, ingenious gothic spoof The Mystery of Irma Vep may be the late author's most delightful creation, a tour de force for two actors that piles on the preposterous plot twists while spewing out a dizzying spray of high- and low-culture in-jokesexquisitely silly.” Charles Isherwood, VarietyBawdy, rip-roaring comedy, scintillating drama and plot twists that involve vampires, werewolves and men in drag, The Mystery of Irma Vep serves up all this and more in a sidesplitting two-hour show.” Chicago Theater BeatIn Camille, Charles Ludlam’s hysterical way with the Lady of the Camellias takes the doomed Dumas and Verdi heroinevia George Cukor and Greta Garboto unexpected heights of pathos and laughter.” San Francisco Chronicle
"Visionary Playwright of the 20th Century" according to A Customer. Charles Ludlum should be read by anyone in the theater; or by anyone who loves theater, and its history. Ludlum combines farce, with wonderfully ridiculous characters in search of great love; in other words, he holds a mirror to the world, and to our soc
His more than 30 plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire. Moreau, Bluebeard tells the story of a mad vivisectionist in search of a third sex.Charles Ludlam: Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York’s acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company. His more than thirty plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire and continue to be widely performed throughout the world.. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, tra