Bøger af Jack O'Brien

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Ecclesiastical muralist jack O'Brien began a 3 year torrent of writing in 1970 using his artist's pallet of colors, textures and compositions to make you 'feel' like you are there on the battlefield, in the bedroom or in his mind.

John (Jack) J. O'Brien (B. 1925 - D. 2001) was an ecclesiastical muralist who painted the ceilings and walls of cathedrals and churches and one statehouse across the Northeast United States during the 1950s - 1960s. A World War Two veteran with the 45th Infantry, he was severely wounded, highly decorated for bravery and suffered severe post-traumatic stress for many years of his life. In the 1960s, an accident with a coke bottle injured one of his hands and he could no longer climb the scaffolding to paint church murals. For a while after the injury he worked the Montreal Exposition, the World Fair and the Macy's Day parades as an artist and helped his Union. He rejoined his wife and children in Toronto, Canada after a hospital stay to treat alcohol and codeine dependency. Taking a tiny, Spartan studio in Markham near Bloor Street, Jack began a torrent of writing as a catharsis to rid himself of the demons of war. The book of poetry It's Like This and the book on war Dog Star, were completed first. He was elected President of the Canadian Writer's Guild, though American, and he would read his work to rapt, packed-in audiences. He completed two more novels in that tiny studio which housed only a bed, a coat hook and an overturned fruit crate as a desk. The Golden Gumball detailed his family's experiences during the Great Depression and The Terminal Assassins, was his only fictional work. It was a fast moving book where group therapy veterans with terminal conditions decide to target untouchable criminals and other agents of evil as their parting gift to the world. Paramount Motion Pictures began discussions with Jack to buy the rights to make it into a movie. As with all of his written work, he demurred and did not publish.

"Well, boy, how did you do it?" "What are the prison camps like?" "Are the Germans as cruel as they are painted?" These are the questions that I have been asked thousands of times since coming home. I have answered them from scores of platforms, for all kinds of Red Cross organizations; and now I have been persuaded to try and put my answer on paper-and if when I have finished, there are a few points cleared up that you have been wondering, and perhaps worrying about, I shall feel repaid for the writing. They say that "the pen is mightier than the sword," but my experiences of the last ten years have given me much more practice with the latter than with the former. I shall not attempt a flowery story, nor exaggerate anything to make it sound big, but I shall, as they say in the Court, tell "the truth, and nothing but the truth."

The Tony Award-winning director gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook. What do directors do? Jack O'Brien, the winner of Tony and Drama Desk Awards and the former artistic director of San Diego's historic Old Globe theatre, describes it like this: "You stand before a situation in which something is presented to you. You're afforded a challenge. Like catching an enormous ball. And you respond. You come up with a vision of some kind. That is, if you respond to the material at all, and one must, or it's doomed. You sort of feel that since you relate to the material at hand, you might as well try to be helpful."In Jack in the Box, O'Brien's follow-up to his memoir Jack Be Nimble, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with (including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others), and the choices he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career. With humor, warmth, and contagious excitement, O'Brien takes the reader by the shoulder, pulls them in, and tells them how to become a director-or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did.

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The Tony Award-winning director gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook. What do directors do? Jack O'Brien, the winner of Tony and Drama Desk Awards and the former artistic director of San Diego's historic Old Globe theatre, describes it like this: "You stand before a situation in which something is presented to you. You're afforded a challenge. Like catching an enormous ball. And you respond. You come up with a vision of some kind. That is, if you respond to the material at all, and one must, or it's doomed. You sort of feel that since you relate to the material at hand, you might as well try to be helpful."In Jack in the Box, O'Brien's follow-up to his memoir Jack Be Nimble, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with (including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others), and the choices he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career. With humor, warmth, and contagious excitement, O'Brien takes the reader by the shoulder, pulls them in, and tells them how to become a director-or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did.

A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directorsFor Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater. Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O'Brien hoped to make his mark by writing lyrics for Broadway but was instead pulled into the growing American regional theater movement by the likes of John Houseman, Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb, and Eva Le Gallienne. He didn't intend to become a director, or to direct some of the most brilliant-and sometimes maddening-personalities of the age, but in a charming, hilarious, and unexpected way, that's what happened. O'Brien has had a long, successful career on Broadway and as artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, but the history of the movement that shaped him has been overlooked. In the middle of the last century, some extraordinary people forged a link in the chain connecting European influences such as the Moscow Art Theatre and Great Britain's National Theatre with the flourishing American theater of today. O'Brien was there to see and record it all, in beautifully vivid detail. Funny, exuberant, unfailingly honest, Jack Be Nimble is the tale of those missing heroes, performances, and cultural battles. It is also the irresistible story of one of our best-loved theater directors, growing into his passion and discovering what he is capable of.