.... 85 THEATRE IN FRANCE Donna Giovanni: Staging Ambiguous Desire Judith Graves Miller...

... 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...

... is somewhat hidden, or that have a point of view, dangerous because first different kind of unity-a unity that vio• it is ambiguous. The tragic and the lates the so-called rules of Aristotle. comic disintegrate in the grotesque. Ajax has always had a very bad press In terms...

...Adam Versenyi CAMERA THEATRON: ISHERMAN/STEICHEN ADAM VERSENYI eliberate ambiguity;hermeticism; work...

... to suggest the ambiguity and mystery of the original. Sensitive to the role he had assigned to himself, Holderlin used Antigone to express, in the endless reverberations of stylized...

... when he made a shift in vow - never again a living thing." thinking and realized that it should center on Gladys that it began And to this note, Fugard added the line: "Piet is widely to work. He explains: "There were no ambiguities in Piet's suspected of being...

... wife’s lap. (Only in Buchner’s imagina- particular instance, one must note that there are tion does a man’s wife accompany him to a broth- few political ambiguities in Biichner’s text. A el.) From that moment and for most of the thousand and one cues direct the audience’s sym- evening, the text...

... The Disney corporation, however, generally tries to obscure the mechanical and mass-reproduced aspects of its kingdom and therefore provides an ambiguous antithe- sis to Benjamin’s claim. A more direct antithesis, and a fuller understanding of the auratic qualities of mass reproduction in a capitalist...

... of theatre to Leonce and Lena notes: which become flaws if the play is read as literary mockery: the ambiguity of Buchner, for all his complaints character, the complex verbal games against Schiller and Romanti- and philosop hical imp1ications contra- cism and Idealism...

... style harks back to the mode’s application of them is practiced with more recent New Criticism of William Emp- such acuity and balance that one feels as if for- son, whose Seven Types of Ambiguity manifests gotten truths were being whispered directly...

... role as polemics. Meanwhile, Mamet has touted the play coproducer of David Mamet’s Oleanna, which, as controversial while insisting that its implica- from its premiere at the American Repertory tions are ambiguous, that it does not take sides. Theatre last May to its run in New York this past...

... than they allay. In- This formal ambiguity is reflected on Austin jumps back, then makes a stand; he deed, even with its realistic skin Tnu Wit the level of signification. The conflict be- smiles too, but only slightly. Tnu Wat ends has, from the beginning, a strange, tween Austin and Lee...

... the ambiguity narrow experience, Delano refuses to ac- which exists between reality and-appear- cept its reality and thus interprets it as a 83 play staged for his benefit. In Lowell, this of human nature, Lowell has reversed and idea is physicalized through a series of extended...

..., and net I’d say. And I show the ambiguity through you could see open food cans, the point was language. He speaks the truth, he projects it, you were entering something. McCarthy also so to speak, unintentionally...

...? Patri- otic? Treasonous? Satter and the Half Straddle company acknowledge Reality s moral imperative, but also choose to live within the ambiguity of both the document and her action. Like Reality, they refuse to distill her action to simple partisanship. Sat- ter acknowledges both the release...

... with and undercut by the emotional distance between them fragmented people show all their these ambiguous incidents. Martin, and the world. When the play ends contradictory desires, yet do not give for example, burns Elin’s cheek with we see the family deadlocked forever. a cohesive answer...

... it, such historical contradictions and ambiguities turn out to be at the heart of this issue of Theater, in Shawn-Marie Garrett’s essay about minstrelsy and Rebecca Rugg’s about American musicals, indeed in Mac Wellman’s visions of Antigone, as much as in the Stein forum. Stein might not like my reasons...

.... But "I laugh" or sometimes, speaking of oneself, "he laughs" illu- minates other ambiguities if spoken in the most perfectly sinister manner. As for "he falls" or "I fall, overwhelmed"-this becomes lyrical, comic, or dramatic, or better yet all three. Who the fuck gave me such a theatre...

... time with scientific objectivity; he and ambiguity. shows no emotion, but the audience begins to At first the spectators are wary; perhaps take delight in his musical and visual discoveries. they’ve heard that the show involves messy audi- If all...

...; that resolved ambiguity then Akalaitis' contemporizations ofclassics is that mastery of theatrical staging and. initially backfires on Akalaitis by working against the they cancel their potential for pointed seems to resonate with an interpretation of interests of her specific setting, blocking all political...