Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is the editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. His books include Environmental Theater, Between Theater and Anthropology, and Performance Studies: An Introduction. Schechner has directed many performances, lectured, taught, and led workshops on every continent but Antarctica.

Foreman’s writing shows shades of Alfred Jarry, Eugène Ionesco, and Bertolt Brecht. I could go on, but for all this placing, nothing really fixes Foreman. He is the closest I know to a true original in theater.

Portrait of Richard Foreman, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui.

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