Toby Silverman Zinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby Silverman Zinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby Silverman |
| FAMILY NAME | Zinman |
| SIGNATURE | ZINMAN T S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beckett's Dying Words
Timon of Athens
Jewish Aporia: The Rhythm of Talking in Mamet
When David Mamet came to Philadelphia in January of 1990 for the opening night of a new production of his little-known play, Squirrels, first performed fifteen years before in Chicago, he sat in the audience and decided the play was lacking a last line. On the spot he made one up and it was included in the rest of the production's run, although it has not appeared in the Samuel French Acting Edition.' This tag line, Or words to that effect, sums …
Search and Destroy: The Drama of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is, once again, a media event. New films about the war thrive in movie theaters, old films about the war thrive in video shops, and the critical attention they have received both by the press and the academy amounts to a minor industry.' The sure sign that the Vietnam War has won the hearts and minds of America again is its reappearance on television-China Beach, Tour of Duty, and PBS documentaries revisiting My Lai. All this may …
Visual Histrionics: Shepard's Theatre of the First Wall
In a postmodernist theatre which is non-psychological, non-linear, hunchy, jokey, fragmented, and violent, the visuals speak much of the meaning. This is not the comforting marriage of form and content, but rather another way of addressing the audience, through the eye and not the mind.' As Robert Brustein said in a recent interview, if you have a theatre in which you attend only to language, then ... you could just stay home and read the script.…
Jewish Aporia: The Rhythm of Talking in Mamet
When David Mamet came to Philadelphia in January of 1990 for the opening night of a new production of his little-known play, Squirrels, first performed fifteen years before in Chicago, he sat in the audience and decided the play was lacking a last line. On the spot he made one up and it was included in the rest of the production's run, although it has not appeared in the Samuel French Acting Edition.' This tag line, Or words to that effect, sums …
Visual Histrionics: Shepard's Theatre of the First Wall
In a postmodernist theatre which is non-psychological, non-linear, hunchy, jokey, fragmented, and violent, the visuals speak much of the meaning. This is not the comforting marriage of form and content, but rather another way of addressing the audience, through the eye and not the mind.' As Robert Brustein said in a recent interview, if you have a theatre in which you attend only to language, then ... you could just stay home and read the script.…
Search and Destroy: The Drama of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is, once again, a media event. New films about the war thrive in movie theaters, old films about the war thrive in video shops, and the critical attention they have received both by the press and the academy amounts to a minor industry.' The sure sign that the Vietnam War has won the hearts and minds of America again is its reappearance on television-China Beach, Tour of Duty, and PBS documentaries revisiting My Lai. All this may …
Timon of Athens
Jewish Aporia: The Rhythm of Talking in Mamet
When David Mamet came to Philadelphia in January of 1990 for the opening night of a new production of his little-known play, Squirrels, first performed fifteen years before in Chicago, he sat in the audience and decided the play was lacking a last line. On the spot he made one up and it was included in the rest of the production's run, although it has not appeared in the Samuel French Acting Edition.' This tag line, Or words to that effect, sums …
Beckett's Dying Words
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)