Bill Simmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5425469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Simmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmer |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMER B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Reinvention of Form
When I write a play there's no single sure track to run on. It's different each time I start. Each time is starting from scratch, a reinvention of form. There may be easier ways to do it, but for me, that's how it is. There are no rules that always apply. If I teach a playwriting class, I set up exercises, so people can learn some possible different approaches. I would be loathe to prescribe one single approach. As you catch me just about to star…
Soon 3's Black Water Echo
Alan Finneran, the director of Soon 3 , came from San Francisco to the festival with a new piece called Black Water Echo . Finneran refers to the piece as a “task activated performance landscape.” He means that the performance consists primarily of a series of precise tasks, the performance of which alters the space (or landscape) of the piece, thereby dictating a new series of tasks that will further alter the landscape, dictating yet another se…
The Theatrical Style of Tom O'Horgan
Tom O'Horgan's first widespread public attention came in 1968, when he directed Hair on Broadway and won an Obie Award for directing Paul Foster's Tom Paine at La Mama. He had already been involved with the theatre most of his life: he began acting when he was four years old and he composed and staged a full-length opera, called The Doom of the Earth, when he was nine. Later, he studied music and supported himself for several years with a nightcl…
Actress from Iowa
Sue Sheehy was a waitress in a small restaurant when Robert Wilson created Deafman Glance at the University of Iowa in 1970. She had lived in Iowa all her life and had never seriously considered leaving it until she met Wilson. “Robert Wilson and John D'Arcangelo came into the restaurant where I was working,” she recalls, “and Bob said, ‘I want that girl to be in my play.’” Up to that time, she had never given much thought to becoming an actress.…
Robert Wilson and Therapy
As Robert Wilson's theatre is more widely publicized, he is inadvertently developing a reputation as an experimental “therapist.” Several newspaper articles have pointed to his work with brain-damaged children in Texas, his early involvement with Headstart programs and his work with the aged and terminally ill at Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Although this work was done many years ago, his reputation as a “therapist” continues to grow because of h…
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Actress from Iowa
Sue Sheehy was a waitress in a small restaurant when Robert Wilson created Deafman Glance at the University of Iowa in 1970. She had lived in Iowa all her life and had never seriously considered leaving it until she met Wilson. “Robert Wilson and John D'Arcangelo came into the restaurant where I was working,” she recalls, “and Bob said, ‘I want that girl to be in my play.’” Up to that time, she had never given much thought to becoming an actress.…
Robert Wilson and Therapy
As Robert Wilson's theatre is more widely publicized, he is inadvertently developing a reputation as an experimental “therapist.” Several newspaper articles have pointed to his work with brain-damaged children in Texas, his early involvement with Headstart programs and his work with the aged and terminally ill at Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Although this work was done many years ago, his reputation as a “therapist” continues to grow because of h…
A Reinvention of Form
When I write a play there's no single sure track to run on. It's different each time I start. Each time is starting from scratch, a reinvention of form. There may be easier ways to do it, but for me, that's how it is. There are no rules that always apply. If I teach a playwriting class, I set up exercises, so people can learn some possible different approaches. I would be loathe to prescribe one single approach. As you catch me just about to star…
Soon 3's Black Water Echo
Alan Finneran, the director of Soon 3 , came from San Francisco to the festival with a new piece called Black Water Echo . Finneran refers to the piece as a “task activated performance landscape.” He means that the performance consists primarily of a series of precise tasks, the performance of which alters the space (or landscape) of the piece, thereby dictating a new series of tasks that will further alter the landscape, dictating yet another se…
The Theatrical Style of Tom O'Horgan
Tom O'Horgan's first widespread public attention came in 1968, when he directed Hair on Broadway and won an Obie Award for directing Paul Foster's Tom Paine at La Mama. He had already been involved with the theatre most of his life: he began acting when he was four years old and he composed and staged a full-length opera, called The Doom of the Earth, when he was nine. Later, he studied music and supported himself for several years with a nightcl…
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