Interviews
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“Arts Feature: Lola Pashalinski Interviews Herself.” Dyke TV, created by Linda Chapman, Mary Patierno, and Ana María Simo, episode 53, Sangfroid LLT, June 7, 1994. https://media.smith.edu/departments/ssc/dyketv/dyketv1994_playlist.html
Coffeehouse Chronicles #159: Lola And Linda – Secrets From Their First 40 Years. LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Club. March 13, 2021. With JoAnne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, Linda Chapman, Clove Galilee, Melanie Joseph, Nicky Paraiso, and Mia Yoo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2bBg2iCpW8&ab_channel=LaMamaExperimentalTheatreClub
“I was a Lesbian Child: Lola Pashalinski.” Dyke TV, created by Linda S. Chapman, Mary Patierno, and Ana María Simo, episode 18, Sangfroid LLT, October 5, 1993.
https://media.smith.edu/departments/ssc/dyketv/dyketv1993_playlist.html.
Interview with Penny Arcade. The Lower East Side Biography Project – Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia. February 27, 2007. Filmed at the New York Theatre Workshop rehearsal space.
Interview with Steven Watson. Circa 2000.
“Lola Pashalinski: Evoking a Sense of Menace.” Interview by Shimi Horwitz. Backstage, Nov. 5, 2019.
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/lola-pashalinski-evoking-sense-menace-1-44257/.
“Lola Pashalinski & Linda Chapman.” Interview by Sara Farrington. The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde. 53rd State Press, 2022, p. 93.
Also includes interviews with Black-Eyed Susan of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, as well as JoAnn Akalaitis, Ann Bogart, Lee Breuer, Richard Foreman, Kate Valk, and Robert Wilson.
“Lola Pashalinski and Miss Cubbidge: Interview.” Lola talks about Charles Ludlam and The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the famous scene from Bluebeard: The Seduction of Miss Cubbidge and the avant-garde theatre of New York in the 60s and 70s. https://vimeo.com/388940948
“A Question for Lola Pashalinski.” New York Magazine, April 28, 1986, p. 21. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/28/magazine/sunday-april-28-1996-a-question-for-lola-pashalinski.html
Stuart Sherman. Interviewed by Lola Pashalinski. Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman, By Robin Deacon, 2013.
On The Ridiculous Theatrical Company
Photo by Leandro Katz
“Bluebeard.” More Plays from Off-Off Broadway, edited by Michael Townsend Smith, Bobbs-Merrill, 1972, p. 359.
“Bluebeard.” The OFF OFF Broadway Book: The Plays, People, Theatre, edited by Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman, Bobbs-Merrill, 1972, p. 388.
Bottom, Stephen. Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off Off Broadway Movement. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Lola appears on the cover as Miss Cubbidge in a 1969 shoot for The New York Times. Charles Ludlam is referenced on pp. 7, 216, 226-27, 230-32, 234, 274, 326-28, 329, 356-59, 365.
Brecht, Stefan. The Original Theatre of the City of New York: From the Mid-60s to the Mid-70s. Book 2: Queer Theatre. German Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978.
Discusses Charles Ludlam, John Vaccaro, Ronald Tavel, Jack Smith, among others related to the Ridiculous.
Edgecome, Sean F. Charles Ludlam LIVES!. University of Michigan Press, 2017.
See “Chapter 1: Charles Ludlam’s Queer Legacy.”
“From the Invisible to the Ridiculous: The Emergence of an Out Theatre Aesthetic.” The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalle. New York University Press, 2002, p. 135.
Lola and Charles also appear on the cover as Miss Cubbidge and Bluebeard.
Kaufman, David. Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2002.
“The Life of Lady Godiva.” The New Underground Theatre, edited by Robert J Schroeder, Bantam World Drama Edition, 1968, p. 171.
Marranca, Bonnie and Gautam Dsagupta, editors. Theatre of the Ridiculous. Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1979.
Chapters dedicated to The Life of Lady Godiva p. 13, and Stage Blood p. 51.
Marranca, Bonnie and Gautam Dsagupta, editors. Theatre of the Ridiculous. Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1998.
Updated to include “The Plays of Ronald Tavel” p. 19 and “Theatre & the Ridiculous: Conversation with Charles and Gautam” p. 77 as well as The Life of Lady Godiva p. 37 and Stage Blood p. 93
Poland, Albert. Stages: A Memoir. Albert Poland, 2019.
Charles Ludlam is referenced on pp. 85, 87, 97, 99, 130, 249.
Roemer, Rick. Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. McFarland & Company Inc, 1988.
Of particular note: Chapter 2 “Roots of Ridiculosity” p. 17 and Chapter 5 “The Ridiculous Plays, Part One: 1967-1979” p. 83.
Samuels, Steven. Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly: Essays & Opinions of Charles Ludlam. Theatre Communications Group, 1992.
A posthumous collection of Charles’ writings, including manifestos.
Photographs
Photo by Martha Swope ©The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Hujar, Peter. [Photo of Lola Pashalinski]. Peter Hujar, Grey Art Gallery: NYU, 1990. p. 37.
Hujar, Peter. [Photo of Lola Pashalinski]. Portraits in Life and Death. Da Capo Press, 1976. n. pag.
Katz, Leandro. Bedlam Days: The Early Plays of the Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Viper’s Tongue Books, 2020.
Waldman, Max. Bluebeard. Waldman on Theater. Doubleday and Company, 1971, p. 163.
Journals, Periodicals, Reviews (and more Photos)
Photo by: Leandro Katz
American Theatre. July-August 1987. Lola appears on the cover in Egyptology. A profile of Charles Ludlam is on p. 84 and an overview of Richard Foreman’s career, “Both Halves of Richard Foreman” is on p. 14.
“Charles Ludlam.” TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Winter 1970, p. 203
“Charles Ludlam: The Mating of Theater and Art.” ArtForum, September 1981, p. 67.
Photos of Lola in Corn p. 69; Camille p. 72; Bluebeard p. 71; and When Queens Collide p. 70
Godfried, Martin. “People are Talking About: Tarot: A Take-Over Deal.” Vogue, February 15, 1971, pp. 84-85. Includes a review of The Grand Tarot and photo of Lola as The Empress.
Kaufman, David. “From the Ridiculous to the Sublime.” Interview, Dec. 1989, p. 74.
“Liberation of Lear.” American Theatre, July-August 1988, pp. 12-14. Includes a photo of Lola as gender-reversed Kent, p. 14.
Performing Arts Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring/Summer 1978.
See “Special Section: Theatre of the Ridiculous” p. 40, and “The Plays of Ronald Tavel” p. 55 which includes The Life of Lady Godiva. An interview with Charles Ludlam appears on p. 69. Photos of Lola in Bluebeard p. 72; Der Ring Gott Farblonjet p. 74; Corn p. 76; and Camille p. 78.
“The Ridiculous Theatrical Company.” Vogue, March 1975, pp. 132-133. Richard Avedon’s photo of Lola as Miss Cubbidge, and Company in assorted character dress p. 133.
Sherman, Stuart. “Charles Ludlam.” Theater magazine, Yale School of Drama, Spring-Summer 1994. pp. 12-13.
Smith, Michael Townsend, Theatre Journal: Reviews from The Village Voice 1960-1974. Fast Books, 2015.
“The Ridiculous 1966 – 1957” pp. 222-229 includes reviews of The Life of Lady Godiva and Conquest of the Universe. “The Ridiculous II 1972-1973” p. 291 includes reviews of Eunuchs of the Forbidden City. A review of Corn appears on p. 296.
TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Fall 1968.
See an interview with Charles Ludlam p. 116; an article on Ronald Tavel p. 106; Stefan Brecht’s “Notes on the Theatre of the Ridiculous” p. 117; and Lola photographed as Bunny Eisenhower/War in When Queens Collide p. 137.
TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter 1987.
Lola appears on the cover of this edition with additional photos pp. 134, 137, 146-147, 152, 155, 165, 168, 171, 175. An article on Richard Foreman’s work including Film is Evil, Radio is Good with photos by Babette Mangolte on pp. 125, 136, 143, 149.
“Turds in Hell.” TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 14, no. 4, September 1970, pp. 110-119.
Production photos pp. 115, 119.
Scripts
Ludlam, Charles. The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam. Perennial Library, 1989.
Ludlam, Charles. Eunuchs of the Forbidden City. Scripts, vol. 1, no. 6, New York Shakespeare Festival, April 1972, p. 28.
Photo by: Leandro Katz
