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  U B U W E B - Film & Video: Richard Foreman
Foreman, in notes supplied to the critic by the Film Forum, talks knowingly about the differences between theater ''space'' and screen ''space,'' ''Strong Medicine'' clearly is theater, but theater in which there are four walls instead of three.
Foreman and Karen Stern; produced by Mary Milton and Simon Nuchtern in association with Eric Franck and Jordan Bojilov.
Charles Bernstein in conversation with Richard Foreman (TDR, 1992)
www.ubu.com /film/foreman.html   (862 words)

  
 Edge: RICHARD FOREMAN
RICHARD FOREMAN, Founder Director, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays both in New York City and abroad.
Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Ontological-Hysteric Theater (1968-present).
Foreman's plays have been co-produced by such organizations as The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama, The Wooster Group and the Festival d'Autumn in Paris and the Vienna Festival.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/foreman.html   (259 words)

  
  Richard Foreman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is a playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; he is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
As of January 12th, 2006, Richard Foreman has written, directed and designed fifty-seven of his own plays both in New York City and abroad.
Foreman's plays have been co-produced by such organizations as The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama Theatre, The Wooster Group and the Festival d'Autumn in Paris and the Vienna Festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Foreman   (423 words)

  
 Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays both in New York City and abroad.
Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Ontological-Hysteric Theater (1968-present).
Foreman's plays have been co-produced by such organizations as The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama, The Wooster Group and the Festival d'Autumn in Paris and the Vienna Festival.
www.lacan.com /foreman.htm   (299 words)

  
 richard foreman ... at MSN Shopping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Richard Foreman, a six-time Obie Award winner and one of...
Filled with Foreman's jolting, quirky humor, an obsession with exploring the mind's slippery territories, and a faith in new worlds accessible only through language, these new plays are among Richard Foreman's most affecting work.
Filled with Foreman's signature wit and vision, Paradise Hotel is the work a true genius of American theater.
shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=richard+foreman+...   (432 words)

  
 village voice > theater > Talking With Richard Foreman by Tom Sellar
Although Foreman humorously acknowledges that he is "a man of the theater" and a 37-year veteran of its avant-garde, his essays, manifestos, and plays have expressed ambivalence about theater's traditional presumptions.
Foreman's anticipated shift away from full productions of new plays reflects personal exhaustion more than frustration with a form he has radically reconceived.
Foreman, who received a MacArthur "genius" fellowship in 1995 after three decades of writing and directing, emphasizes that he's not abandoning theater for film.
www.villagevoice.com /theater/0501,sellar,59742,11.html   (1561 words)

  
 Culturebot.org: I Survived Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Recently, I came across a notebook I used while working with the inimitable Richard Foreman, the legendary theater maker and self-proclaimed “King of the Avant-Garde.” The incomprehensible instructions that follow are quoted exactly as I wrote them, in italics.
Foreman’s highly choreographed extravaganzas necessitate a parade of his favorite props and set pieces—strings, large pieces of cardboards, rubber balls decorated with nipples, phallic symbols, pastry, demonic babies—to be moved and delivered to the play’s stars at the master’s will.
Love him or hate him, Richard Foreman is indisputably a genius; an artist with the kind of focus and vision that comes along once in a generation.
www.culturebot.org /archives/2004/04/29/ISurvivedRichardForeman.php   (1901 words)

  
 village voice > theater > Richard Foreman's King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe by Michael Feingold
This opinion is presumably not shared by Foreman; you can gauge the breadth of his imaginative compassion from his willingness to extend it even toward George W. Bush, idiot scion of a genetically criminal family that should have been sterilized three generations ago.
The hero of Foreman's new play, who is and is not the president of the United States, is a cowboy who dreams of being king of the universe.
Clearly, Foreman loves and pities Rufus as much as he despises and fears him; Rufus is a part of him as Bush is a part of us.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/feingold.php   (771 words)

  
 Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"
This was how the pioneer days of Richard Foreman's pancake personhood felt to me. I fled to live in New York City precisely for the antidote of being around venues like Foreman's Ontological-Hysterical Theater and his wonderful shows.
Foreman complains that he is being replaced (by "the pressure of information overload") with "a new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance" because he is connected to "that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button."
Foreman's point was about people after all and people are being changed by the computer's ubiquity in their lives.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/foreman05/foreman05_index.html   (6298 words)

  
 Hysterical, Ontological Foreman Online: Richard Foreman ('who of all people could expect me to be the person I was or ...
Richard Foreman ('who of all people could expect me to be the person I was or was not') talks.
Editor's note: All italicized passages (except this one) were borrowed (idiosyncratic spelling and punctuation intact) from Richard Foreman's website, www.ontological.com, according to his recommendation that writers draw on the material from his online notebooks to create their own Richard Foreman play.
That is, I'm trying to take Foreman's suggestion from his site that playwrights and directors draw from Foreman's own notebooks, which he has posted there, and create their very own, brand new, never-before-seen Richard Foreman play.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/220   (791 words)

  
 Station Hill Reviews -- Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Foreman presents his own presence with a confusing clarity: we're not really used to hearing, seeing and feeling the "hidden order" of the unconscious.
Foreman's theater is one of depth both visually and psychometaphysically.
Richard Foreman's theater, for me, represents an extraordinary mental, spiritual, and aesthetic adventure.
www.stationhill.org /reviews_foreman.html   (124 words)

  
 Portland Mercury - Theater - Richard Foreman Mini-Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These artists thrived in New York in the '60s and '70s and were led largely by Richard Foreman, the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater company, and an experimentalist who favored careening, violent and frequently hilarious juxtapositions of images, sounds and text.
Foreman was (and still is) doing the only thing theater has left to offer: a distinctly live experience.
His writing process, as described in his own words, involves writing dialogue with "no indication of who is speaking" and "no connection between the pages." Amazingly, Foreman has placed all of these writings online (www.ontological.com) for other artists to sift through and use in any way they see fit.
www.portlandmercury.com /portland/Content?oid=31942&category=22143   (415 words)

  
 Portland Mercury - Theater - The 3rd Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Richard Foreman, the tripped-out director who achieved fame in the '60s and '70s through his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre company, is perhaps best known these days for the royalty-free script notebooks he provides public access to on his website (www.ontological.com).
These pages are typically nothing more than unconnected lines of dialogue designed not as works of theater in and of themselves, but as launch pads for other artists to bounce off of and create their own original works.
After five years of existence (the Foreman Fest is a birthday party of sorts as well), PWNW's place in the Portland performance arts scene seems cemented.
www.portlandmercury.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=34243&category=22143   (307 words)

  
 Richard Hell Site Links Page
They even wrote about Richard in issue two, but we're sceptical and it did take some reading to convince us, but we're convinced.
"RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS Who says it's good to be alive?..."--Rock writer Alan Crandall's personal description and assessment of Hell, along with a basic discography.
"Richard Hell and Amanda Uprichard"--Homely, interesting 1987 dual interview with Richard and his clothing-designer Sham (the Shams was the group Amanda had with Amy Rigby and Sue Garner) girlfriend of the time.
www.richardhell.com /links.html   (2334 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Unbalancing Acts : Foundations for a Theater: Books: Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The opening essay, "Foundations For A Theatre," is the clearest and most linear statement to date of Richard Foreman's work, which re-considers the entire process of making theatre (from the formulation of a script to rehearsal to performance) and what kind of experience an evening of theatre may convey.
No one is creating theatre like Richard Foreman, whose associative (and sometimes dissociative) writing process contrives to capture a truthful portrait of his own perception at work.
In rehearsal, Foreman creates an environment rebelling against any mimetic presentation of everyday reality, which is a kind of shared dream.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559360763?v=glance   (808 words)

  
 bookofjoe: The Notebooks of Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Richard Foreman (above) is an experimental playwright and director in New York.
In this respect Foreman and I are identical: do what you want with what you find on bookofjoe.
Foreman said, "I like to think of the notebooks as a pool of raw material.
www.bookofjoe.com /2005/08/the_notebooks_o.html   (269 words)

  
 BOMB Archives | Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One night I went to see Richard Foreman's Rhoda in Potatoland in a loft on Lower Broadway, on the edge of a new neighborhood, SoHo.
I totally credit Richard Foreman with changing the diretion of my theater life.
You've mentioned, in your manifestos on theater, that an actor must have hostility towards the audience.
www.bombsite.com /archive/foreman   (412 words)

  
 BOMB Interview: Richard Foreman
I longed for intensity, fun, manic energy, insanity, brains; "performers" instead of "actors." I wanted theater that was more than the sum of its parts.
I totally credit Richard Foreman with changing the direction of my theater life.
They are fantastic machines emanating from the head of Richard Foreman.
rogershepherd.com /bombsite/foreman/foreman.html   (412 words)

  
 Liminal Performance Group: Archive
Liminal’s Amanda Boekelheide and Bryan Markovitz participated for a second year in a row in PWNW’s Annual Richard Foreman Festival and Benefit.
Each year, PWNW Director Linda Austin invites a selection of local artists to construct short performances that utilize random selections of text drawn from the avant-garde director’s notebooks, which are published by Mr.
Liminal’s contribution to Performance Works Northwest’s first Richard Foreman Festival was an experiment to see how action could be broken down into any number of combinations and executed according to a basic set of rules.
www.liminalgroup.org /archive/other   (1180 words)

  
 PALATINE Directory: Foreman, Richard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Exercising Demons: A Rattle of Mental Rhythms with Richard Foreman
The site gives details of the current shows although the primary value of the site is that Foreman has included fifteen years of notebook entries.
Foreman introduces his method of working with material and, in particular, of drawing together texts according to themes rather than narratives (US) Site.
www.palatine.org.uk /directory/index.php/pra/wri/fore/fore   (117 words)

  
 EPC/Richard Foreman Author Page
Charles Bernstein in conversation with Richard Foreman (TDR, 1992) at Ubu.Com
Eric Boogosian in conversation with Richard Foreman; Plus audio clip 1, audio clip 2 (from Bomb)
Foreman interview by Ken Jordan (1990): Part One, Part Two
epc.buffalo.edu /authors/foreman   (231 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Richard Foreman:: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Foreman is in some ways the elder statesman of nonnarrative experimental theater, having produced his own plays continually for 30 years.
While he often cites Brecht and Gertrude Stein as primary influences, his highly entertaining plays have their own unique form and relate his own philosophical and psychological probings acted out on the stage.
This wide-ranging anthology includes a collection of reviews tracing Foreman's reception from the 1960s to today, a series of informative interviews, a section of critical essays and a selection of Foreman's writings (including the complete text of My Head Was a Sledgehammer).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1555540716   (432 words)

  
 joegratz.net » Richard Foreman: Commoner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Richard Foreman, noted experimental playwright and progenitor of the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, has made his notebooks freely availbale on the web for anyhone who wishes to create a performance from them.
Though he does not explicitly use a Creative Commons license, Foreman’s terms are similar to those of the CC Attribution license:
I here make available my notebooks for the last fifteen years or so in the hopes directors/writers will make use of the material as I do.
www.joegratz.net /archives/2005/08/14/richard-foreman-commoner   (330 words)

  
 Being Richard Foreman: A Word Play tickets - Being Richard Foreman: A Word Play information - New York
Being Richard Foreman is a darkly comic id investigation, exploring themes of identity, creative activity, ownership and ontological despair.
Written by emerging playwright Timothy Don, Being Richard Foreman is set in an eternal, infernal and perhaps internal airport.
The characters laid-over include: Richard Foreman (artist/writer/tennis player), Vasco da Gama (conquistador/sex machine/bodybuilder), a bevy of Hot Flight Attendants (hot/hot/hot) and a Disembodied Ego.
www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/23530   (176 words)

  
 Richard Foreman - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
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One of the most acclaimed experimental dramatists of the second half of the 20th century, Richard Foreman moved from the fringes to the center of American drama through his Ontological-Hysteric Theater and his award-winning plays.
This collection of essays by Foreman critics and by Foreman himself acts as an introduction to and critical resource for the playwright...
www.smarter.com /books-1/product/richard_foreman-1454229   (172 words)

  
 BOMB Archives | Richard Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Art is a place where you don't have to make life's desperate choices, but can enjoy their interplay.
But when you're being the director, Richard Foreman, it sounds like a very exciting place to be.
Now, ideally, that would make you fascinated by what that experience was, and would make you delve into all the ramifications of what might have happened to you.
www.bombsite.com /archive/foreman/foreman1.html   (3368 words)

  
 Richard Foreman playwright - plays biography information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Richard Foreman Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The General's Daughter (1999) (still photographer) (as Richard Foreman)
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Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Richard Foreman Jr.
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