...Heather Henderson Copyright © THEATER 1988 1988 RE-CREATING DEKKER’S AESTHETICS OF MIRTH HEATHER HENDERSON he Shoemaker’s Holiday (c.1598), barely disturbing...

... The Critical Panopticon: Essays in Theater and Contemporary Aesthetics by Mohammad Kowsar (Peter Lang, 1991). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS The Age and Stage of George L. Fox episodes, Irwin's play conveys the rise and because, Kelly shows...

...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...

...Thomas F. DeFrantz Thomas F. DeFrantz Performing the Breaks Notes on African American Aesthetic Structures Many forms of African American expressive culture derive their aesthetic capaci- ties from the manipulation of rhythm. In these modes, subjectivity emerges in high contrast...

...Mark Lord The following article is part of a series of essays on the ethics of play production. In search of statements of aesthetic and ethical purpose, the author has frequently found it necessary to analyze theaters' advertising, for it is only in their advertisements that most of our theaters...

... back to Stalin, who “turned classics (from Pushkin to Tchaikovsky) into icons,” replacing religion with a sacred artistic canon. “Aesthetics,” Davydova contends, “is more important than politics. I’m sure that fascist ideology grows out of fascist aesthetics.” Copyright © 2018 Yale School of Drama...

... in the gaps created by the transformative industrial and aesthetic shifts of American theater in the 1960s.” Herrera then reexamines how dramatists of marginalized identities, by recovering the legacies of Baldwin and Fornés, might move beyond mainstream aesthetics and “diversity’s categorical logics” through...

...Laurens De Vos Laurens De Vos examines the ways in which director Milo Rau incorporates the poetic and aesthetic techniques of alienation theorized and pioneered by German director Bertolt Brecht for purposes similar to but distinct from Brecht’s. Like Brecht, De Vos argues, Rau exploits...

... for funding and support to express new visions. He argues that Lehmann's aesthetic analysis has taken a prescriptive turn in the theater world and hinders artists from using the theater's most engaging forms: characters and narrative fictions. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009...

...Milena Bogavac; Miloš Lolić Tom Sellar speaks with two of Serbia's leading young theater artists—playwright Milena Bogavac and director Miloš Lolić, both in their twenties. In this interview, he asks them about the aesthetic and political aspirations of the next generation of theatermakers...

...Jacob Gallagher-Ross Jacob Gallagher-Ross introduces the text of Big Art Group's SOS , a piece recently staged at the Kitchen in New York City. He analyzes and situates the company's mediatized aesthetic within the context of contemporary consumer culture and the economic implosion of 2008. ©...

...Emily Carson Coates This article discusses the interrelationship between contemporary dance aesthetics and social change developed in the piece Dans Un S’Y Mettre by Burkinabe choreographers Auguste Ouédraogo and Bienvenue Bazié, as well as their larger project, Engagement Féminin, which aims...

... has termed it, a sublime stupidity rather than a Romantic one. Historicizing the sublime from its origins in Longinus through Kant to the present day, Dorsen argues that the sublime is an aesthetic of technocratic collapse, and a response to the limitations of rational understanding in the face...

... of their ambiguities—soaked in the aesthetics of folklore, kitsch, and spectacle. Tompa suggests that “less hierarchical forms of performance, such as postdramatic theater” hold the potential to upset these dominant single narratives with multiviewpoint art, including “forum theater, reenactment, and documentary plays...

... the responsibilities and intimacies of spectatorship, asking “What does it mean to watch dance-based movement, aesthetically, ethically, politically?” Copyright © 2018 Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2018 contemporary dance audience participation spectatorship ethics site-specific Chicago...

... describes current and emerging trends in Latinx theater across the Americas as expressed over the course of two panel discussions and among small-group participants. Recounting how these geographically diverse conveners responded to questions concerning Latinx aesthetics, political activism, funding...

...M. Lamar; Tucker Culbertson M. Lamar and Tucker Culbertson elaborate on M. Lamar’s aesthetics of Negrogothic cinema, music, and performance. The Negrogothic, explain the authors, is an approach to representation in which the black body verges on disappearance and the interior of the black psyche...

..., novel, play, or aesthetic experience of literature, art and music presup- musical composition is an artefact of human endeavor that poses God’s presence. “I will put forward the argument,” he indic?tes consciousness; and it does so within the states in the opening segment...

... situations. can be easily granted to works ofinnovative Bent is the story of Max Berber, a young topicality without regard to aesthetic in• homosexual estranged from his family...

... inaccuracies or misrepresentations capable disparity between what we call fact and and suggesting that certain incidents have been fiction, or between aesthetic and non-aesthetic fact. carefully managed, have not been expressed in As the once close relationship between the expe- their entirety...