... 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...

...John Glore Over the past decade, an image of Ten years ago, critics and friends of The Canon- Sam Shepard and his work has developed the serious theater - the Third Theater...

...-030 © 2011 by Matt Cornish Canonical Improvisations: The Case of T h e m Christopher Grobe The recent revival of Ishmael Houston-­Jones’s Them, a multidisciplinary dance event from the mideighties, joins a host of similar attempts (across all the temporal arts...

...Michael Thalheimer In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia Galotti...

...Steve Moore; Carlos Treviño In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia...

... dramatic canon since modernism. She advocates for a renewed emphasis on “religious literacy” in education so that academics and critics may better understand these works and their successors. © 2020 by Dana Tanner-Kennedy 2020 American religion metaphysical religion postsecular theater American...

...Charles McNulty Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Works Cited Butler , Judith “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” In Inside/Out , edited by Fuss, Diana. London: Routledge, 1991 . Chambers , Ross “Irony and The Canon.” Profession 90 . Clum , John M. Acting Gay...

..., was subjected to intense political scrutiny, and the canon was plumbed for historical and topical parallels. Kott’s “Grand Mechanism” was sensed and explored in a variety of productions by directors such as Peter Zadek, Benno Besson, and Peter Stein, not to mention Bertolt Brecht; in Poland, by the Kraców...

... of the canon. working with a female co-director “in order to Tennessee Williams, too, was marginalized identify with the inner lives of the [female] by virtue of his sexual preference, which does characters” didn’t illustrate any cross...

... “cultural, social, pedagogical choices which aim at a convinced that those who do not believe are necessarily more or less stable consensus,” and a canon, comprised of haunted by not knowing. Obviously, Steiner is a believer our personal, even private choices. Quoting Matthew and Real Presences...

... the canon of classical dramas and dramatists, in hopes of turning away from the American theater s stubborn Eurocentrisms to more globally diverse and racially representative repertory. (Of course, as this journal has often underlined, American theaters have rarely delved into the true scope...

... across his work. Yet even within this expanded historical context, the figura of Molière continues to overshadow his immediate surroundings. The contributions included in the present special issue do not go so far as to refute the cultural importance of canonical bodies of works: there is no denying what...

.... The paintings were merely stage sets for a bigger drama: a creation myth for Canadian art. The Seven were performing the roles of art- ist-originators for the eye of historical posterity roles they went on to play, virtually undisturbed, for generations in Canada s art canons. But now we are in 2020...

... relating hung, the commissioner, the purchaser, the estimated the canon to culture, culture to readers, or readers to the value of the painting, the subject and its cultural history, canon has grown geometrically in the last decade (partly, the traditions inscribed in certain blends of light and color...

... themes.” Yet, he insisted, his chosen plays “had to justify themselves on the score of their intrinsic excellence, and the difficulty has been to choose among the wealth of material” (vii). Quinn’s enthusiasm and critical discern- ment were instrumental in shaping the canon of American drama...

... to entertain doubt as a critical practice that grapples with the centuries of scholarly, pedagogical, and performance traditions that have made it difficult to imagine a queer Molière. Of Shakespeare, Madhavi Menon has stated, Being canonized deprives a text of agency, containing what is potentially too...

... of Molière, which testifies to his unrivalled status within comedic repertoire, it is of course necessary to question the rather unexpected choices made here from among his numerous comedies. For though we are hardly surprised to see him considered a canonical author even in his lifetime, worthy...

... an interesting keep the audience attuned. landscape with two poles, downtown and uptown, if you will. At one extreme, there is horowitz It would be impossible to overesti- an audience for innovation and on the other mate the importance of bringing the language an audience for the canon done a certain way...

... Ein Sportstück, referred to their work as “Hedda home The text is a montage of quotes and their directed by Einar variations from the canon of German Dichter und Denker (poets and thinkers), from Schleef, 1998. Photo: Hoelderlin and Kleist to Hegel, Fichte...

... The German-language plays that dealt specifically with the war as it approached or ran its disastrous course took a peculiar sat- isfaction in matching the iconography of the canonical texts with the enormity of his- torical events. Carl Hauptmann, older brother of the more famous Gerhart, published...