...Elinor Fuchs © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 A chart of Mars. Illustration: Sir Robert Stawell Ball Elinor Fuchs EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play Since its origination as a classroom tool in the early 1990s, Elinor Fuchs’s...

... by the villagers. ‘Not enough flair,’ he comments. Then he buys a mask after checking the price with his guide: ‘Is that what you would pay for it?’ Reassured, he asks his favourite question: ‘What else are you going to show me?’ It is getting dark and everyone is tired — the maestro, his Indian hosts...

...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...

... Last spring, we asked a number of critics, scholars, and directors who are concerned with Brecht's work whether they'd been affected by the last few years' spate of articles about the role of Brecht's female collaborators. Did giving new weight to the contribution of a woman assistant or co-author...

...Shonni Enelow Shonni Enelow asks, “What can we learn from looking at actors about the ways that surveillance has shaped contemporary life?” Her article examines performances in Leos Carax’s Holy Motors (2012), as well as works within the performance exhibition We’re Watching at Bard College (2017...

... 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...

...M. Elizabeth Osborn “Soon after the death of Rabbi Moshe, Rabbi Mendel of Kutsk asked one of his disciples, ‘What was most important to your teacher?’ The disciple thought and then replied, ‘Whatever he happened to be doing at the moment.’” What the renowned Canadian director John Hirsch happened...

... interested, thinking about the duration of his passion. Telling a five-­year-­old his real mother and father are looking for him is different from telling a thirty-­five-­year-­old. I couldn’t stop imagining and writing about what these inter- views might be like. What sorts of questions could you ask...

..., there is always such a diversity of au• ment?" I asked, sensing the beginnings of diences that we would profit more by an interesting discussion. positing an ideal, selective sample of an audience than by quibbling over petty "Most definitely...

... understood. You never will. I’m some- than a day. Neither one will grow up thing behind your head. Something you right. can’t quite see. Go ahead, turn around. Woman: You’ll have to ask for help. You won’t see me. You can’t see some- You’ll have to ask...

... asked ques- tradictory ones. In one case, we had a man who tions; so it became a sort of discussion, and the had really been tortured, whom we had inter...

... young man Never so deep. Hospital room. young woman Never. (Suddenly, looking at him) Why? young woman alone. She seems nervous. young man Did they ask you anything? Her left hand...

... to town for class in such a long time? BOY I could not attend for my mother has been ill, sir. Teacher I wish I had known. Kindly tell her that I’m here to see her. Boy (calls to room 2) Mother, come, our teacher is here. Mother (from room 2) Won’t you ask him to come...

... THE RATS DOWN THE WALLS STORY This last may or may not be the most gruesome of all the realities they have to face but it’s the one they figure I can help with. And so they ask my help. And so I try. When I was a boy even before my brush with psychology I was working as boys...

... calls out from the audience: An- Shouting from the cast: What are you go- swer me a question, will you, what are ing to do? It’s your revolution, it’s your you going to do after your revolution? world. Don’t ask me, ask yourself. Try...

... ask questions to myself, try to sort it out, try to figure it out, says Sherry, Ann Liv Young’s alter ego, in her solo performance piece Cinderella, pre- sented at the Issue Project Room in September 2010. This, in a nutshell, is the show: self-­reflective, base, confounding, and yes, fasci...

... that one throw Woyzeck and Andres into an later, by asking: "Am I a murderer?" open field: (Marie had already given herself away in a similar question: "Am I a Hey, Andres! That streak across whore...

... attacks (while no fication of our plan was this: one was looking) until the climactic mo- The play used the theatre as its meta- ment when Starkey's Son asks, "Must I phor for the country, consequently really go out there now and be killed?" to creating a character out...

... in Question Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions The following collection of questions and prayers It might be helpful to seed the community with is intended to be asked...

.... I mean, have you seen them, talked to "What are you talking about?" asked a them, listened to them, touched them, self -consc iously frustrated actress. and is this all you can carry away from the experience. I just don't...