Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155783637X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Art Imitates Life Reading this book reminded me of sitting in the cramped Sheridan Square theatre watching Ludlam and his cronies perform--sometimes the performances were magical, but just as often I was more frustrated than excited by the all-too evident rough edges. There are problems with this book that should have been addressed by the editor, just as a more objective director could have improved some o. The Letter, Not the Spirit John A disappointment. Kaufman gets the facts, but misses the spirit. To be sure, any biographer of Ludlam is up against a lot. The main problem is that a lot of the man's art existed "at the vanishing point," that is to say, in performance. Ludlam was above all, an inspired actor, and acting (HIS acting) and style took precedence over everything (he gave the world no great plays, and his compa. An impressive life's record of an entertainer Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life And Times Of Charles Ludlam is the award-winning biography of an especially talented man who first appeared in in an Off-Broadway production in the early 1960s and continued with a theatrical passion until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987 at the age of An impressive life's record of an entertainer Midwest Book Review Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life And Times Of Charles Ludlam is the award-winning biography of an especially talented man who first appeared in in an Off-Broadway production in the early 1960s and continued with a theatrical passion until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987 at the age of 44. Ludlam's theatrical genius included a pioneer of drag performance, a practice since adopted into m. An impressive life's record of an entertainer Midwest Book Review Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life And Times Of Charles Ludlam is the award-winning biography of an especially talented man who first appeared in in an Off-Broadway production in the early 1960s and continued with a theatrical passion until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987 at the age of 44. Ludlam's theatrical genius included a pioneer of drag performance, a practice since adopted into m. . Ludlam's theatrical genius included a pioneer of drag performance, a practice since adopted into m
Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. (Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he