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My Old Lady: Complete Stage Play and Screenplay with an Essay on Adaptation
Israel Horovitz
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Description for My Old Lady: Complete Stage Play and Screenplay with an Essay on Adaptation
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; APFD; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as the award-winning Sunshine, James Dean, and The Strawberry Statement. At the age of 75, he directed an adaptation of his play My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Now he shares tips and techniques on adapting plays for the screen. The book includes the full script of both the play version and screenplay of ... Read more
Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as the award-winning Sunshine, James Dean, and The Strawberry Statement. At the age of 75, he directed an adaptation of his play My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Now he shares tips and techniques on adapting plays for the screen. The book includes the full script of both the play version and screenplay of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781941110362
SKU
V9781941110362
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99-15
About Israel Horovitz
Playwright-screenwriter-director Israel Horovitz's 70+ stage-plays have been translated and performed in as many as 30 languages, worldwide. His plays have introduced such actors as Al Pacino, John Cazale, Jill Clayburgh, Gerard Depardieu, and many others. Horovitz wrote and directed his first feature film (at age 74) based upon his stage-play My Old Lady, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, and ... Read more
Reviews for My Old Lady: Complete Stage Play and Screenplay with an Essay on Adaptation
Horovitz illuminates the process of adapting spoken drama for film and provides lessons for students and practitioners of both forms ... Copious examples are included ... For libraries that serve students of writing for film and stage.
Library Journal Adapting a play to the screen can be a perilous undertaking. Language
the very thing that makes play great
can be ... Read more
Library Journal Adapting a play to the screen can be a perilous undertaking. Language
the very thing that makes play great
can be ... Read more