
Public/Private
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In a witty conversational style, Gail Papp paints a comprehensive picture of the ways that the Public was driven by Joe's ambition to create a democratic theater whose artists and audiences would reflect the city's population. Also highlighted are unfamiliar aspects of his many battles with the establishment, from tilts with Robert Moses to theater critics. The scourge of AIDS is also documented in the form of people close to Joe and Gail, and in the toll it exacted on Joe's son, Tony. In recounting setbacks and frustrations alongside moments of passionate artistry and theatrical innovation, Gail's personal remembrances lend the narrative a keen, emotional edge which will captivate readers. At a time when America remains divided over issues of equality, identity, and freedom of expression, Public/Private is an important chronicle of how the Public Theater became a transformative beacon for social change-and of the man who created it.
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Producer-Director JOSEPH PAPP (1921-1991) is the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, which since 1956 has produced free Shakespeare in New York City. In 1965 he steered the acquisition of the Astor Library landmark building where he created the Public Theater dedicated to new American work, opening in 1967 with the original production of Hair. Papp produced over six hundred plays and musicals which, by 1991, had won more than 200 stage, film, and television awards. Called "the most important force in the English-speaking theater" in the twentieth century, he was also an outspoken champion of human rights and the First Amendment who, in the words of the Congressional Record, "struggled to make New York City and our country a more livable place, to uplift our spirits, to challenge our minds, and see us through to another day."
Content
- PUBLIC PRIVATE
- Contents
- Epigraph: "While Memory Holds a Seat"
- Author's Note
- 1 Greenwich Village, 1991
- 2 Greenwich Village, 1965
- 3 The Great Northern Hotel
- 4 A Manifesto
- 5 "Tell Pandarus to Say It to the Audience"
- 6 On the Way to the Mobile Theater
- 7 A Radical Change in Mission
- 8 The Astor Library
- 9 A Blizzard
- 10 The Public Theater
- 11 A Different Sound in Music
- 12 The "Naked" Hamlet
- 13 An Equal Opportunity Employer
- 14 Birth of the Play Department
- 15 Dr. Spock's Petition
- 16 Malacology
- 17 Buried in the Berkeley Hills
- 18 An Evening at the Ontological-HystericTheater
- 19 The Rocky Road to Broadway
- 20 How I Spent Shakespeare's 408th Birthday
- 21 Traveling with Joe
- 22 A Bastion of Bourgeois Patronage
- 23 When James Earl Jones Played King Lear
- 24 Living Together
- 25 A Three-Way Oath of Integrity
- 26 Family Affairs
- 27 Our Haimish Wedding
- 28 The Public's First Cabaret
- 29 Handling Controversial Issues
- 30 Country Matters
- 31 Irreconcilable Differences
- 32 When Joe Sang at The Ballroom
- 33 An Affinity for Comedy and Tragedy
- 34 Exploring Parameters
- 35 Feuding with Critics
- 36 In the Public Eye
- 37 "The Great Theater Massacre of 1982"
- 38 A Gondolier in Brooklyn
- 39 A Musical I Wish We'd Done
- 40 "TzefarDEYah!"
- 41 "WAIT! Go Get the Pictures to Show Them!"
- 42 A Magisterial View
- 43 Guess Who's Coming for Cocktails?
- 44 When the Downtrodden Become Uptrodden
- 45 Who Cares If You Do Another Season?
- 46 for colored girls
- 47 "Hic et ubique"-Hamlet in Eastern Europe
- 48 "Woo't drink up eisel?"
- 49 Undying Hatred of Nazis at Tea Time
- 50 The Normal Heart
- 51 Life, Loss, and Redress in 1986
- 52 The Belasco Project
- 53 Hoping against Hope
- 54 The Coach's View
- 55 Across Space and Time
- 56 A Playwright's Final Curtain Call
- 57 The Idea of Continuity
- 58 The Crucible of Memory
- 59 A Globe Theater Birdhouse
- 60 Epilogue, or, The Continuation
- Appendix: Featured Actors, Choreographers, Composers, Directors, and Playwrights, 1956 to 1991
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
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