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Tom Cone (born Thomas Edward Cone, 1947 – April 2012) was a Canadian-American playwright and librettist. His work often presented provocative ideas about morality and art and it stretches existing forms through the integration of music and the visual arts. In many of Cone's plays characters are "riding a fault line, about to make a change which may result in tragedy,"〔"Robert Wallace and Cynthia Zimmerman eds. The Work: Conversations with English-Canadian Playwrights. Toronto: Coach House, 1982."〕 sharing an "evocative, somewhat taboo recollection of their common past."〔"http://www.rainreview.net/rain-020402.html"〕 In ''True Mummy'' two former lovers who once crossed a dangerous line together, are reunited. The title of the play refers to a black, luminous glaze used by artists such as JMW Turner, that was made from the ash of cremated mummies.〔"True Mummy, Tom Cone, Anvil Press Publishers, 2004 Vancouver, Canada"〕 Visions of life and death of an Egyptian Princess form alternating scenes, and, as she is being prepared for mummification, towards the end of the play when a Turner painting is displayed, it becomes clear that she is on it. Other plays include ''Herringbone'', ''Stargazing'' and ''Love at Last Sight'' and Cone wrote librettos for operas ''The Architect'' (for Vancouver Opera, 1993), ''The Gang'' (Vancouver New Music, 1997), and ''Game Misconduct'' (Vancouver Playhouse 2000).〔"Everybody on the Sidewalk: A Conversation with Tom Cone, TCR The Capilano Review 3.4/Winter 2008 Collaborations Issue, pp. 5-26"〕 He also wrote adaptations of Molière's ''The Miser'' and Goldoni's ''The Servant of Two Masters'' 〔"http://wikireadia.org/search-books-by-isbn.php?searchstr=0887542557&searchby=ISBN&action=Search"〕 which were performed at the Stratford Festival where he was a writer-in-residence between 1978 and 1980. He adapted ''Herringbone'' into a musical in 1981, with music by Skip Kennon and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. It premiered in Chicago followed by productions in New York at Playwrights Horizons, in London at The King's Head Theatre, at the Edinburgh Festival, at Hartford Stage starring Joel Grey, and in many cities throughout North America. From 2007 to 2009 it toured Williamstown Theater Festival, McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) and the La Jolla Playhouse (CA) in a production starring BD Wong, directed by Roger Rees.〔"http://broadwayworld.com/people/news/Tom_Cone/"〕〔"http://www.curtainup.com/herringbonenj.html"〕 Tom Cone lived in Vancouver where he was an active curator and promotor of experimental music and the avant-garde.〔"http://www.hadleyandmaxwell.net/hadley-maxwell-matthewscone-house-vancouver/"〕 He died in April 2012 of cancer.〔Smith, Janet (April 9, 2012), ("Playwright, librettist, and avid arts advocate Tom Cone dies at 65" ). ''The Georgia Straight''〕 == Selected works == * There (1972) * The Organiser (1973) * Cubistique (1974) * Herringbone (1975) 〔"http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9B04EED9123BF932A35754C0A964948260"〕 * Whisper To Mendelsohn (1975) * The Imaginary Invalid (1975) * Beautiful Tigers (1976) * Shotglass (1977) * Stargazing (1978) * 1792 (1978) * The Writer's Show (1978) * The Servant Of Two Masters (1980) * The Architect (1993) 〔"http://www.jgshillingford.com/index.php?pageID=bookList&titleID=138&imprintID=4"〕 * True Mummy (1997) 〔"http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?t=theatrical_rides"〕 * Donald and Lenore (2008) 〔"http://www.vancouverplays.com/theatre/previews_theatre/preview_chutzpah_donald_lenore_10.shtml"〕〔"http://felixculpa.bc.ca/events/donald-and-lenore/"〕〔"http://www.vancourier.com/story_print.html?id=2674609&sponsor="〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Cone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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