Wallace Shawn

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The first play by Wallace Shawn to be done in New York was Our Late Night, directed by André Gregory at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater in 1975.  Max Stafford-Clark directed A Thought In Three Parts for the Joint Stock Theatre Group in London in 1977.  Marie and Bruce was done at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1979, directed by Les Waters, and Wilford Leach directed it at the Public Theater in 1980.  Aunt Dan and Lemon was done by Max Stafford-Clark in 1985, and the same production was then done at the Public Theater.  Shawn himself did the first performances of his one-person play The Fever in 1991 at various theatres including Dixon Place, The Public Theater, La Mama, and the Mitzi Newhouse at Lincoln Center and the Royal Court and National Theatre in London.  The Designated Mourner was done at the National Theatre in London in 1997, directed by David Hare, and then in New York in 2000, directed by André Gregory.  Grasses of a Thousand Colors was first done in 2009 at the Royal Court in London as part of a season of Shawn's work and was then done in 2013 in New York at the Public Theater , both productions directed by André Gregory.  Evening at the Talk House was done at the National Theatre in London in 2015, directed by Ian Rickson.  The New Group in New York has done Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, and Marie and Bruce, all directed by Scott Elliott.  The New Group also produced Allen Shawn's opera The Music Teacher with a libretto by Wallace Shawn.  The 1981 film My Dinner With Andre was co-written by Gregory and Shawn and directed by Louis Malle.  Shawn translated The Mandrake of Machiavelli, which was done at the Public Theater by Wilford Leach; The Threepenny Opera by Brecht, which was done at the Roundabout, Studio 54, directed by Scott Elliott; and Ibsen's Master Builder, directed by André Gregory and subsequently made into a film by Jonathan Demme.  Shawn's plays are published by TCG Books and Grove Press in the US and by Faber and Nick Hern Books in England.  His book Essays is published by Haymarket Books. 

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