Amy Arbus "The Fourth Wall"
Amy Arbus came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about her book "The Fourth Wall."
What happens when a performing actor leaves behind his lines, staging, sets and lighting, and steps beyond the "fourth wall"? Amy Arbus has been exploring this question in a series of dramatic portraits of celebrated actors, both on and off Broadway.
The Fourth Wall Limited Edition is signed, hand-numbered and includes a 24-minute DVD with voice-overs by Amy Arbus speaking about her experience photographing the stage legends.
Fully costumed but stripped of their context, Arbus' actors remain fully in character as they venture outside the fictional setting of the play and the safety of the theater. Staged in anonymous public spaces, the images achieve an unexpected blend of spectacle and art; formality and spontaneity; performance and reality.
Collected in The Fourth Wall are some of the modern stage's most gifted actors, including Alan Cumming in Cabaret, John Malkovich in Lost Land, Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio, Ed Harris in Wrecks, Cherry Jones in Doubt, Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens, and Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton in The Coast of Utopia. The book includes actors from such successful and ambitious shows as Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Color Purple and Sweeney Todd to name a few.
Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM and streaming live on the internet at www.kxlu.com
For more about Center Stage with Mark Gordon visit www.stageandscreen.com
What happens when a performing actor leaves behind his lines, staging, sets and lighting, and steps beyond the "fourth wall"? Amy Arbus has been exploring this question in a series of dramatic portraits of celebrated actors, both on and off Broadway.
The Fourth Wall Limited Edition is signed, hand-numbered and includes a 24-minute DVD with voice-overs by Amy Arbus speaking about her experience photographing the stage legends.
Fully costumed but stripped of their context, Arbus' actors remain fully in character as they venture outside the fictional setting of the play and the safety of the theater. Staged in anonymous public spaces, the images achieve an unexpected blend of spectacle and art; formality and spontaneity; performance and reality.
Collected in The Fourth Wall are some of the modern stage's most gifted actors, including Alan Cumming in Cabaret, John Malkovich in Lost Land, Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio, Ed Harris in Wrecks, Cherry Jones in Doubt, Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens, and Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton in The Coast of Utopia. The book includes actors from such successful and ambitious shows as Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Color Purple and Sweeney Todd to name a few.
Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM and streaming live on the internet at www.kxlu.com
For more about Center Stage with Mark Gordon visit www.stageandscreen.com
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