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Neil
Simon
“What is funny? That is almost an impossible
thing to
answer. The best things in humor are what’s universal. People can say,
‘Yeah, I
know that kind of person. I know that kind of situation.’ I never sit
down and
start to think, ‘I'm going to write a comedy.’ You just write what
would
happen. Eventually, people would come up to me after a show in the
theater, and
ask, ‘How did you know my mother? How'd you know my father?’ They
really
thought that that was just between them and their family.”
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IN THEIR
COMPANY
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS
Photographs by Ken Collins
Interviews
by
Victor Wishna
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New York, New
York—Umbrage Editions is pleased to announce the
publication of In Their Company:
Portraits of American Playwrights, a
long-awaited compendium of the foremost writers of the American stage,
captured through photographs and in their own words.
While a play
comes alive, literally, only through the efforts of a
community — actors, directors, producers, designers — it begins with a
single idea, envisioned and cultivated in seclusion. It begins with the
playwright.
Collins
photographed and Wishna interviewed dozens of accomplished
American playwrights in an attempt to capture that beginning, as well
as the collaborative journey of the playwright's experience. The result
is a book celebrating these gifted artists of the contemporary theater.
In Their
Company
will have very powerful appeal for theater-goers and
for anyone who follows the life of the American stage. The book is also
a valuable resource for both casual and serious students of American
theater, and should become a standard volume for any public library,
academic archive, or drama teacher's desk. Finally, it will intrigue
anyone who appreciates fine portrait photography — these playwrights
are visually stirring subjects; they wear their lives on their faces. |
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