Master Class.
by Terrence McNally, Terrence McNally
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Author: Terrence McNallyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01
ISBN: 0822215217
Number of pages: 72
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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Book Review: A Master Play
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this performance a number of years ago (with the incredible Zoe Caldwell) and I was completely paralyzed by the end of the performance. When the curtain finally fell - I couldn't move out of my seat - so great was the story and the acting.
The story is about Maria Callas and it begins with the audience being "invited" to sit in one of her master classes. As she begins to listen and analyze a student's performance, we are drawn into her mind as she recounts her life, her love for Onasis, and the difficulties she faced in the opera world. What makes the play so incredible is that in her recounting the stories and dialogue, the character Maria Callas transforms herself into the other people she is talking about. She "becomes" Onasis and reconstructs the conversation she had with him years before.
I truly recommend this play to anyone who loves opera, Maria Callas as well as to any student actor looking for what is almost a one woman show.
Summary of Master Class.
Master Class is a pyrotechnical theater--fireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes, prods, and inspires students--"victims" as she calls them--into giving the performances of their lives while revealing her own. As she slips off into memories, we experience her days at La Scala, her marriage to Meneghini, and her great doomed love for Aristotle Onassis. But the dazzling theatricality comes from Callas's emotional explosions, her cutting wit, and the soaring music as each student sings an aria that exposes the Divina's vulnerabilities ... and her genius.United States Books
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