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    Playwrights Canada Press, 2007

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  • Author: Ouchi, Mieko
    Date:
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    2007
    Summary:

    Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought-provoking contemplation on art, politics, and the seduction of fascism, and a theatrical examination of a woman who danced one perfect dance with the devil and forever changed the way films are made. Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most remarkable and controversial women of the twentieth century. Dancer, actor, photographer, and filmmaker, Riefenstahl caught the eye of Adolf Hitler with her prodigious first film: The Blue Light. A cinematic innovator, her decision to direct Triumph of the Will, got her blacklisted as a filmmaker until her death in 2003 at 101, unrepentant and mostly forgotten.&nbsp&nbspA stellar play by Mieko Ouchi, tackling historical subjects, The Blue Light is filled with rich language and complicated characters. A must-read in the canon of modern Canadian drama.

    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Playwrights Canada Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770910362, 1770910360