Richard Maxwell Project

There are many web references to Maxwell and the New York City Players. You might want to start with their own website:

• The New York City Players

This website has a section of reviews and articles that have been published on their work, which may help you get a sense of the context and reputation of this company:

• Press

There are various other useful resources on the net:

• Location One: there's a video of an interview with Maxwell; scroll down the alphabetical artist list.
• Stage Persona text interview with Maxwell.
• Theatermania text interview with Maxwell.
• Markus Wessendorf academic essay on Maxwell's work, placing it in the context of what's called 'Post-Dramatic Theatre'.
• Sally Oswald academic essay on Maxwell's early plays, from Performing Arts Journal.
• Creative Capital group of basic resources on Maxwell's work.

There are many other resources available and please do feel free to post up here anything useful that you find.

This is advance warning to you that on 13 November 2006 we are going as a group to see a production by Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players. The show is called The End of Reality and it is being performed at the Barbican, London, as part of the BITE '06 programme, the Barbican's year-round international theatre festival, and at which Maxwell's company have often performed. Tickets will be available to buy from the departmental office. Please note that this trip is not optional!

The easiest way to get to the Barbican from Royal Holloway is:

• train from Egham to Waterloo
• London Underground: Waterloo and City Line from Waterloo to Bank
• London Underground: Northern Line from Bank to Moorgate.
• It's a five minute walk from Moorgate to the Barbican Centre.

The show starts at 7.45, so you ought to get the 6.23 train from Egham at the latest.

See you there!

Hi everyone, this is the blog for the Contemporary Theatremaking option on the New York City Players, run by writer-director Richard Maxwell. This space will be open for you to report on the project as it unfolds. I want all of you to post ideas and comments to this board as the course unfolds. You can upload pictures, if you like, and comment on each other's posts. If you are unsure how to do any of these things, you can email me and I'll try to talk you through it. By the end of this course, it should be a many-voiced record of your journey through the course to the final performance and will be a very useful resource for you to refer to when you come to write your essays.

You can also let your friends on the other projects know about this blog. Just give them this URL: and they'll be able to read what you write. They will also have a blog to maintain, so together these should create a collective record of the whole course's work.

I hope you enjoy the course!