...Andreas Englhart Andreas Englhart examines the aesthetics of evil, particularly extreme evil, in the work of director Milo Rau, focusing on Five Easy Pieces . Englhart considers the ways in which postmodern aesthetics are beginning to turn once again toward the ethical and how this turn is both...

... tech- niques: Five Easy Pieces (2016), The 120 Days of Sodom (Die 120 Tage von Sodom; 2017), La reprise (2018), and the ntgent production Familie (2020). These productions reenact pri- marily real stories10 and, using a collage technique, contextualize these historical events by intermittently...

...Milo Rau ntgent, 2018. Photo: Michiel Devijver Milo Rau Ghent Manifesto The Ghent Manifesto was read during a livestreamed conference at ntgent on May 1, 2018, by the children from the second staging of Five Easy Pieces and simultaneously published on the theater s website. Every institution has...

... documentary, released in 2017. The 2016 production Five Easy Pieces perhaps Rau s most controversial project, as it involves child actors dealing with the sexual abuse and murder of young girls opens with a prologue that focuses squarely on the clumsy pro- cess of Congo s independence in 1960 in an effort...

... of an evening of theater (Five Easy Pieces). In order to arrange things a bit more clearly for myself, I divided the projects into groups, such as the Trilogy of Representation, the Europe Trilogy, the Trial Trilogy, and so on. But first to the name of my production company, and some influences which may...

... interesting young American producers are working abroad and the question of the relation between the talent of film making and the American film is an intricate one. There has been a very bad break between centers of for- mer film making and what's going on now. There is no doubt that Five Easy Pieces...

..., shared their own stories. Meanwhile, similar to the earlier 88 milo rau s work as artistic director of ntgent Five Easy Pieces (the first production Rau created at Ghent, for youth theater campo, Milo Rau s Orestes in 2015), the only two professional actors onstage acted as interviewers and commenta...

... Kirle’s essay on MacArthur “genius” grants awarded to individual playwrights and theater artists. The Fishers’ no-strings-attached series of checks that allow Mee to cover his living expenses through his career is not unlike the MacArthur no-strings-attached five-year grants. If Mee were...

... with Bruce Kirle’s essay on MacArthur “genius” grants awarded to individual playwrights and theater artists. The Fishers’ no-strings-attached series of checks that allow Mee to cover his living expenses through his career is not unlike the MacArthur no-strings-attached five-year grants. If Mee...

... and peer into amy holzapfel  How did Habit begin? the bedroom or bathroom of the house to watch the david levine  I thought of the piece five performers go about their business: checking a text years ago, after...

...- the nineteenth century, where she stays. Ibsen tators are well-trained in decoding plot points wrote it because he heard of some produc- and they don’t need to hear the same thing five tions in Europe, especially in Germany, where times to understand the story. The second step actresses themselves...

... stantly and consciously defying what is expected from them and from Native storytelling. The five comedians also develop projects independently as writers, filmmakers, or visual artists. Between Two Knees tells the story of a Native American family across the ages, finding ways to thrive despite...

... needles Sit Knitting and is being written by five female made of different materials and amplified. poets. It’s a response to Whitman’s wonderful That will accompany their speaking and the poems about the city...

... perfectly willing to accept that there are com- lang I wrote a piece last year called The Pass- posers who have those feelings and believe that ing Measures, forty-five minutes long, for bass this is music’s legitimate goal—Corigliano is clarinet...

...: Within a series of arches appearance: “All my life I thought I was an and land; Pither‘s final recollection of the made of metal tubing, five differently col- American, but now I find out I was a bag lady he met, who feeds the birds and ored blinds on tracks can be pulled down WASP.” He is lanky...

... wording. Jean Lambert-Wild, the director, and Jean-Luc Therminarias, the composer, following a stay with the Xavantes on the Rio das Mortes Indian reserve, in the Bra- zilian Mato Grosso, called on five Xavantes to reconstruct, with four French actors, a Wara or open space where the men...

... believe they act. The emphasis is on believ9, though. I‘ve seen a five year old boy pretending to be an old man - all the adults concurred, he was over fifty. No gimmicks, no method, no fake walk, just pretending with belief. This is the kind of acting that is espe...

...Adam Versenyi ELS JOGLARS AT TWENTY-FIVE ADAM VERSENYI discussion of theater history...

... for the musicians to move among five performance stations. But Druckman composed the piece with a scenario of events in mind, and talks about it as if he were recounting the plot of an opera. The performers begin the piece by entering from the back of the hall while playing and singing...

... twenty-five years have carried on this come to New Haven to lead - with host Ming Cho Lee’s hospitable assistance radical tradition. Anyone who wishes to - three-week explorations of Pericles and King Lear. This time the focus was comprehend the company’s popular to be on Hirsch’s own...