"Hirsch," directed by Mr. Thompson, moves between re-enactments of passages in Hirsch's life and rehearsal room reflections from him on classic theater texts.
(Rooney) 'Cries and Whispers' (opens on Tuesday) Known for his bold deconstructions of classic theater texts and films, the Belgian director Ivo van Hove turns his attention to Ingmar Bergman's 1972 contemplation of mortality.
A parody of today's attitudes about love, Irene Hultman's new "Love, Betrayal and a Bowling Trophy" draws on theater texts by Moliere, Byron and Shakespeare and uses music that includes opera and Spanish love songs.
Ben Brantley described the troupe's approach in a column in The New York Times in 2005: "Classic American theater texts, from 'Our Town' to 'The Crucible,' were poached, fried and scrambled with elements that ranged from blackface minstrel shows to simulated LSD trips".
Leading up to the documentary, most of their updates were just silly stock photos of someone sleeping in an empty theater, with text that reads, "#AlexGibney #GoingClear Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz".
A need is met when Anna Abhau Elliott can fill a black box space with a lo-fi piece of devised theater, using text from an 1871 Federal investigation of Klan violence in Spartanburg.
Last summer, a video ad featuring a voice mail from a woman who was ejected from the theater for texting, went viral.
It's no news that Broadway crowds go for names and trappings; regional theater audiences, for text.
Ann Liv Young, a dancer by training, creates raunchy hybrids of musical theater, movement and text, controlling all aspects of her visually intricate spectacles.
Since starting their own company, Frantic Assembly, in 1994 they have specialized in "theater that fuses text and physicality," as Mr. Hoggett put it, and toured internationally, though the company is little known in the United States.
