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Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist. ' " [1] He has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.
Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass with libretto in collaboration with Robert Wilson, who also designed and directed early productions. [2] [3] The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards which are framed and connected by five "knee plays" or intermezzos. [4]
Robert Wilson (flourished 1572 – 1600), was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles.
The Petrified Forest (1935), by Robert E. Sherwood; The Piano Lesson (1987), by August Wilson; Picnic (1953), by William Inge; Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975), by Ray Bradbury; Play It Again, Sam (1969), by Woody Allen; Plaza Suite (1968), by Neil Simon; The Pleasure of His Company (1958), by Samuel A. Taylor; The Poet & the Rent (1986 ...
The consensus of modern scholarly and critical opinion identifies "R. W." as the comic actor and playwright Robert Wilson; strong commonalities among three plays, The Three Ladies of London, its sequel The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (printed 1590), and The Cobbler's Prophecy (printed 1594), indicate that all three dramas were ...
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits and writer William S. Burroughs. Wilson, in the original production, was largely responsible for the design and direction.
Woyzeck is a 2000 musical with music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, and book by Robert Wilson, based on the unfinished play Woyzeck by German playwright Georg Büchner. It is Waits, Brennan and Wilson's third collaboration, after the 1990 musical The Black Rider and the 1992 musical Alice.
The play afterward attracted some of the 20th century's most celebrated directors, including , Olof Molander, Antonin Artaud, Ingmar Bergman, Roger Blin, Robert Wilson, Mike Dempsey, Robert Lepage and Alejandro Jodorowsky. [10] The German director Knut Ström staged A Dream Play in Düsseldorf in 1918, co-directed with Paul Henkels. [11]