Composers and their stage works 


Richard FOREMAN

American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; he is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater - born New York 10 June, 1937:

Stage Works

  1. Angelface (produced 1968)
  2. Elephant-Steps, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1968)
  3. Ida-Eyed (produced 1969)
  4. Real Magic in New York, music by Stephen Dickman (produced 1969)
  5. Total Recall: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 2 (produced 1970)
  6. Dream Tantras for Western Massachusetts, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1971)
  7. HcOhTiEnLa; or, Hotel China (produced 1971)
  8. Evidence (produced 1972)
  9. Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre, music by Stanley Silverman, lyrics by Tom Hendry (also director: produced 1972)
  10. Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3: The Cliffs (produced 1972)
  11. Particle Theory (produced 1973)
  12. Honor (produced 1973)
  13. Classical Therapy; or, A Week under the Influence ... (produced 1973)
  14. Pain(t) (produced 1974)
  15. Vertical Mobility: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 4 (produced 1974)
  16. RA-D-IO (Wisdom); or, Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 1, music by David Tice (produced 1974)
  17. Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation (produced 1975)
  18. Hotel for Criminals, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1975)
  19. Rhoda in Potatoland (Her Fall-starts) (produced 1975)
  20. Thinking (One Kind) (produced 1975)
  21. Lines of Vision, music by George Quincy, lyrics by Maria Irene Fornes (produced 1976)
  22. Slight (produced 1977)
  23. Book of Splendors (Part II): Book of Levers: Action at a Distance (produced 1977)
  24. Blvd. de Paris (I've Got the Shakes) (produced 1978)
  25. The American Imagination, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1978)
  26. Luogo + Bersaglio (Place + Target) (produced 1979)
  27. Madame Adare, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1980)
  28. Penguin Touquet (produced 1981)
  29. Café Amérique (produced 1982)
  30. Egyptology: My Head Was a Sledgehammer (produced 1983)
  31. George Bataille's Bathrobe (produced 1984)
  32. Miss Universal Happiness (produced 1985)
  33. Africanis Instructus, music by Stanley Silverman (produced 1986)
  34. The Cure, music by Foreman (produced 1986)
  35. Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good (produced 1987)
  36. Love and Science (produced 1987). 1991
  37. Symphony of Rats (produced 1988)
  38. What Did He See? (produced 1988)
  39. Lava (produced 1989)
  40. Eddie Goes to Poetry City, Part 1 (produced 1990)
  41. Eddie Goes to Poetry City: Part 2 (produced 1991)
  42. The Mind King (produced 1992)

OTHERS

  • Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater. 1992
  • The Richard Foreman 'Trilogy (includes In the Mind, My Father Was Already Lost, The Field of White Light) (produced 1992)
  • LeThéâtre de Richard Foreman, edited by Simone Benmussa and Erika Kralik. 1975
  • Plays and Manifestos, edited by Kate Davy. 1976
  • Livre de Splendeurs (Part 1) (produced 1976)
  • Reverberation Machines: The Later Plays and Essays. 1985.

SCREENPLAYS

  • Out of the Body Travel, 1975
  • City Archives, 1977
  • Strong Medicine, 1978.

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York.

CRITICAL STUDIES:

  • "Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre" by Michael Kirby, in Drama Review, June 1973;
  • Richard Foreman and the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre by Kate Davy, 1981.