＂Since the nineteen-sixties and seventies, New York’s experimental-theatre scene has toned down its wild-man character, but Lee Breuer is the grand old man of the movement.＂?The New Yorker
Breuer’s sprawling career began in the early 80s, punctuated by major successes like the Pulitzer Prize?nominated Broadway hit The Gospel at Colonus and co-founding Mabou Mines Theater Company, a fixture of avant-garde New York theater, whose co-founders include JoAnne Akalaitis and Philip Glass. His new guide to theatre-making invites the reader into his unique and fruitful mind, complete with inventive directing techniques and advice for budding theatre writers. This one-of-a-kind guidebook to the world of creating experimental theatre?written with scholar Stephen Nunns? includes the best advice for creating innovative theatre straight from the source.
Lee Breuer is a founding co-artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company in New York City. His best-known work is The Gospel at Colonus, a Pentecostal Gospel rendering of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. He also authored/directed Mabou Mines’ trilogy, Animations, which included The B Beaver, The Red Horse, and The Shaggy Dog Animation (Obie Award for Best Play), as well as A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Obie Award for script and direction), and An Epidog, the winner of the President’s Commission Kennedy Center-American Express Award for Best New Work.
