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Terminal

by Susan Yankowitz
Texas State University Theatre Department
October 29-31, 7:30 p.m.
November 1, 2 p.m.

This ground-breaking collaboration with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre -- an investigation into mortality -- was first produced in 1969 and then revised in 1996. Ms. Yankowitz won the Drama Desk Award for this unusual work. The original script can be found in “The New Radical Theatre Notebook” and ordered through Applause Books, 212 595-4735 or I” Types of Drama, Plays and Contexts”, at www.ablongman.com/barnettod. The later version of the play is available in Performing Arts Journal 57, Johns Hopkins Press, www.press.jhu.edu.

"Terminal sends its audience away with a passion for preserving the gift of life: its gorgeous variety, its possibilities, its essential sweetness.” Kroll, Newsweek

“…the closest thing we have to the transcendently didactic theater of the ancient Greeks.” John Lahr, New York Times

The original version can be found in The New Radical Theatre Notebook and ordered through Applause Books, 212 595-4735 or in Types of Drama, Plays and Contexts, at www.ablongman.com/barnettod. The recent revised script is available in Performing Arts Journal 57, Johns Hopkins Press, www.press.jhu.edu or Performing Arts Journal

Bio. Susan Yankowitz is a playwright, novelist, lyricist and librettist. Among her plays are The Revenge, Phaedra In Delirium (winner of the QRL poetic play competition); Under The Skin, Terminal and 1969 Terminal 1996, both pieces collaborations with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre (Drama Desk Playwright’s Award); A Knife In The Heart (O’Neill Conference winner; West Coast Premiere October 2002 at Sledgehammer Theatre); and Night Sky, presented throughout the United States and internationally. Her plays have been translated into French, Japanese, Catalan, Dutch and German; they have been widely published and anthologized. She is also the librettist/lyricist of Slain In The Spirit, a gospel-and-blues opera with music by Taj Mahal; Cheri, an opera/music theatre work with Michael Dellaira; and bookwriter/lyricist of True Romances, a musical fantasia with Elmer Bernstein.

In addition to her work for the stage, she has written a novel, Silent Witness, published by Knopf, as well as several films and television plays. Her teleplay, The Prison Game, was aired on PBS, as was Sylvia Plath: Arrow To The Sun, which won her a WGA nomination for the best-written documentary of the season.

Her work has been honored by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, NYFA, TCG, Berilla Kerr, McKnight and Rockefeller Foundations. She is a frequent fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell, and is a member of New Dramatists, PEN, the Dramatists Guild, and WGA.

[Illustration: Dance of Death by Kazuya Akimoto from http://www.kazuya-akimoto.com/2008/2008contents/7143gallery3.html]

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