Bøger af Donald Freed

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE captures an agonizing struggle between General Manuel Noriega and Archbishop Laboa on Christmas Eve, Panama, 1989. "... there are plenty of interpersonal fireworks exploding between the two characters who bring this two-act work alive. But the biggest explosions are reserved for the U.S. military, as this production is set during the Yanqui invasion of Panama in 1989, the so-called 'Operation Just Cause.' That duo of aforementioned characters is Archbishop Jose Sebastian Laboa and General Manuel Antonio Noriega ... the main force generating conflict in DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is none other than politics. Imperialism, covert actions, narco-trafficking, gun running, terrorism, torture, psyops, money laundering, the Panama Canal, the Contras, Fidel, George H W Bush (hell's hottest seat is reserved for this evil genius of mediocrity and his satanic son), et al, form the complex backdrop to a fairly simple plot. During Bush's invasion of Panama, Noriega flees to the Papal Nuncio, the archbishop's residence, to seek - in the immortal words of Quasimodo - sanctuary. There, 'Pineapple Face' (as the pockmarked Noriega was derisively called) confesses his 'sins' to Laboa, who - as the Vatican's Grand Inquisitor - served, literally, as the eponymous 'Devil's Advocate.'" -Ed Rampell, Hollywood Progressive

One of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction, ILYCH deals with the tyranny of the bourgeois niceties, the weakness in the human heart, living without meaning, and death. Ivan Ilych has spent his life chasing after wealth and status while ignoring his family. After a minor accident, it becomes clear that Ivan Ilyich is going to die. Contemplating his life, Ivan Ilych realizes that he has lived an empty existence as he finds himself totally alone. "His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art. I take my hat off to him." Harold Pinter "[An] unapologetically political author, Donald Freed, has made a career of hunting out horror as well as humanity in an age that seems bent on self-destruction." Los Angeles Times "We are in the presence of an outstanding dramatic artist, one of huge intelligence, political daring and theatrical imagination." The Gate Theatre, Dublin

In politically dangerous and stiflingly corporate times for book publishing, twenty-eight writers have come together to form Another America, an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic writings. Another America celebrates the emergence of an alternative publishing form: a liberating free press known as Print-on-Demand. The writing is defiant, energetic, and liberated - a fitting herald of this radical new process through which a single book can be printed nearly as inexpensively per copy as can tens of thousands. As the Foreword argues, Print-on-Demand is a breakthrough for "contrary opinions, original storytelling, and new voices in general," through which writers, literary editors, and readers alike will be released from the strangulation grip of the bottom line. Acclaimed writers Harold Pinter, Donald Freed, A.J. Langguth, Shelley Berman, James Ragan, and Leon Katz join in this celebration, casting their prodigious talent against a collage of emerging writers whose work reflects a complex and sensitive American vision. But whether the writer is our generation's greatest playwright or a talented reader only recently turned author, the outcome is a broadside against the dominant American rhetoric of Patriot Act, mass consent, and empire. This anthology proposes a nuanced, alternate manner of expression for a highly flammable yet potentially beautiful new era - Another America in two hundred and eighteen pages, proposed, bound, presented, and printed on demand.

Donald Freed's stage version of HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) unearths a buried play within the play within the play in which a guilt-imprisoned, state-imprisoned, cosmically-imprisoned Hamlet lunges for and ultimately grasps the quietus of freedom. It is an explosively original, marvelously creative feat of Nabokovian intellectual acrobatics. Wonderful!Leon Katz, Leon Katz' Edition of the Notebooks of Gertrude Stein, Emeritus Professor, Yale UniversityIf Shakespeare had reawakened in the oppressed theater of the 21st century, read Beckett, watched C N N and had a stiff drink, this is the play he would have written.Adam Leipzig, producer & dramaturgDonald Freed has brought us a completely new concept of Hamlet and a brilliant one. Setting up a rehearsal play to take its place with Buckingham and Michael Frayn, he engineers a high level debate/conflict, funny and active enough to hold any audience tight. The central impression is of a director beset like Hamlet, and a Hamlet with a great deal of the director. They share a predicament, fight it out and the audience wins.Edward Pearce, Machiavelli's Children, The Great Man, The GuardianNo actor with a pulse could read this play without wanting to get up and do it. Freed takes us into dark corridors between the lines of Shakespeare's play, creating a brilliant met-drama full of theatrical joy, startling epiphany and crackling-good language. Unique as can be.Ron Marasco, PhD, author of Notes to an ActorDonald Freed's HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL) is a revelation that rings so true, you will wonder why you never thought of it. Freed has trumped his own genius. Amazing!Lorinne Vozoff, Artistic Director, Theatre Group Studio

This moral thriller unfolds as a mysterious man and woman meet for a tryst on a bench in the garden of an anonymous luxury hotel. "With HOW SHALL WE BE SAVED? Freed has created a heady psychological whodunit that questions both past and present in order to give us some insight into our fragile lives and collective future." The Hollywood Reporter "HOW SHALL WE BE SAVED? [is] succinct and powerful." Royal Shakespeare Company

Offers an introduction to motor speech disorders. This book provides a practical introduction to the human motor system, including the anatomy and physiology involved in motor speech disorders. It also presents information on etiology, characteristics, and treatment.