ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the life of Richard Foreman as an artist. He had spent his teenage years in 1950s America, growing up during the McCarthy era. Another twelve years would pass before Foreman would get the opportunity to present one of his plays in France, but a strong connection had been forged on that first visit: a connection that would cause him to spend a large portion of his working life abroad, making a significant body of work for European audiences and critics. Foreman was a keen theatregoer throughout his teenage years, though mostly what he was able to see were conventional Broadway shows. Then, when he went to college to study playwriting at Brown, he was trained in the craft of constructing a 'well-made' play. Foreman arrived in Paris with a growing reputation as a key figure in the American avant-garde. Foreman began rehearsals in July and made no particular adjustments to his working methods for the new context.
