Terrence McNally: A Casebook [Paperback]

Chapter 1 Interview with Terrence McNally, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 2 The Early Plays of Terrence McNally, Howard Stein; Chapter 3 Uneasy Transitions: Reassessing The Lisbon Traviata and Its Critics, Sam Abel; Chapter 4 Lips Together, Teeth Apart : Bodies in Search of a Dramatic Form, Stephen Watt; Chapter 5 McNallys Films of His Broadway Plays, Helen T. Buttel; Chapter 6 Interview with Nathan Lane, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 7 Where We Are Now: Love! Valour! Compassion! and Contemporary Gay Drama, John M. Clum; Chapter 8 You Got to Have Friends: Gay Reception of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Steven Drukman; Chapter 9 A Perfect Ganesh: McNallys Carnival in India, Benilde Montgomery; Chapter 10 Terrence McNally on Master Class, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 11 Interview with Zoe Caldwell, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 12 Callas and the Juilliard Master Classes, John Ardoin; Chapter 13 Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva, Cary M. Mazer;This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Best Play of 1996, Master Class.
Toby Zinman, a distinguished scholar and critic, has invited none respected authorities to write about McNally's work, and has included records of the long conversations she had with the playwright about his work, his love of opera, his ideas about acting and education, and life in general. Also included are two interviews she conducted with two of his leading actors: one with the legendary Zoe Caldwell, who played the even more legendary Maria Callas in Master Class, a performance that earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in 1996, a role McNally wrote for her, and another with the great American comic actor, Nathan Lane, whom McNally considers his foremost interpreter.
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