Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979

by Robert Brustein and Robert Brunstein

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394510941
• ISBN13: 9780394510941
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What does it take to start a legend?

Yale Rep is widely known and repected in theatrical circles because of the singular vision of one man, Robert Brustein -- an outspoken critic who was invited by the president of Yale to put his actions where his ideals were.It was not easy. This book chronicles in a lively fashion the birth of the school that in turn gave birth to actors like Meryl Streep and playwrights like Christopher Durang. And this is all while Yale could at any moment be burned to the ground by the radicals of the 1960's and 70's -- people who often made New Haven their headquarters. This is a time when theater could lead to riots, arrests, and the resignation of the President of the United States.MAKING SCENES is one of the side-stories of the rebirth of the American Theater, although to call it a side-story may be selling it short. The revival of regional theater was spearheaded by Yale Rep, which then spearheaded the revival of Broadway and Hollywood. Brustein tells a great story that just happens to be true, an homage to the visions and revisions of some remarkable artists.