...John Towsen Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 ZEN AND THE HEART OF PHYSICAL COMEDY: THE REVENGE OF IMURPHY’S LAW...

...Julie Siege Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 COMEDY UNDER THE NEW MOON: THE RISE AND FALL OF CABARET AT THEATRE DE LA JEUNE LUNE...

...Alexis Greene Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 THE NEW COMEDY OF MANNERS ALEXIS GREENE he comedy of manners is often the dramatic form of have erotic...

..., to Felicia, A Third Worldist onstage, at least before a mixed argue about. And it is our conviction A Mysterious Passenger audience. When we chose to treat the that a peaceful solution depends on A Stewardess topic of the Mideast in a comedy, it both peoples’ willingness to look to Tami...

...Morton Lichter Copyright © by yale/theatre 1969 1969 CAFETERIA STYLE A Comedy in Two Scenes by Morton Lichter Cafeteria Style was first performed at the Theatre-in-Progress Workshop of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts...

...Michael Portnoy; Evan Hill Michael Portnoy s 100 Beautiful Jokes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2014. Photo: Ernst van Deursen. Courtesy of the artist Interview Complicating Comedy, Engineering Behavior A Conversation with Michael Portnoy Interviewed and introduced by Evan Hill When I introduce...

... Copyright © by yale/theater 1974 1974 Comedies of Family Life (Volume One costs one penny) Comedy I (The action takes place on the porch. Enter Mrs. Muckley.) Act I Scene One MOTHER...

...Sara Harvey; Anna Sollazzo Sara Harvey and Anna Sollazzo A Constellation of Perspectives Molière in the Eighteenth Century, as Told by the Actors of the Comédie-F­ rançaise Molière is the first, but it would be unjust et ridiculous not to consider Le Joueur on a level with the best of his plays...

...Andrew Friedman Julia Mounsey, Peter Mills Weiss, and Brian Fiddyment s while you were partying, Soho Rep, New York, 2021. Photo: Julieta Cervantes Andrew Friedman Do Not hing. Die Yo ung. End t he Wor l d. The Comedies of Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss I learned of Julia Mounsey and Peter...

.... If poetry is what’s lost in translation, then laugh may simply be a matter of his self-assigned comedy must be what’s lost in explanation. Tre- role as explicator, but his lessons, too, seem vor Griffiths’Cornedicrns seeks to explain comedy, flawed by an awkward seriousness. The first act...

...Evan Hill up front Cryptic Comic Carvings Evan Hill Our present moment is rife with comicality. The comedy industry is bigger, more diverse, and more lucrative than ever. The market is now driven by niche fan bases and decentralized, often participatory, mediums of comedic production. Political...

..., her Agathonphile is published under her own name (Agathonphile martyr, tragi-comedie. Par D. Françoise Pascal, Fille Lyonnoise), a rare thing for a newcomer who is barely twenty-three years old. The dedication of this first play (premier essay) to Lyons s governing officials extends its praise...

...) of comedy, and they simply did not know 1836-48:lived mostly abroad what to make of it. There was hardly any plot at all, the action developed very 1842: Dead Souls,' The Overcoat...

... concentrated on The Bourgeois Gentleman (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) (1670), contextualization efforts have consisted mostly in drawing links between the comédie-b­ allet s turqueries and the famous visit of Suleiman Aga, an emissary from the Sublime Porte, to France in 1669.1 Rather than investigating, in my...

... writing The comedies of Johann Nestroy reveal a highly individual began to be recognized. New productions were mounted, new voice that analogies and approximations cannot capture. Nestroy stagings tried. Nearly 200 years later, Nestroy’s plays are still on is unlike anyone else, or anyone...

... Supper (1970); Lulu (197 1); The Bmitch- ed (1974); 77ze Frontiers of Farce (1977); Laughter (1978); Antonio (1979); Red Noses, BlaGk Death (1980). Barnes is a comic playwright in the most contemporary and dramatic sense. Comedy out of adversity as Durrenmatt indicates in his essay...

...John Towsen Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 MO11 ERE "A 1' ITALl EN N E : " DARIO FO AT THE COMEDIE FRANCAISE JOHN TOWSEN...

...Martial Poirson; Amanda Gann Molière s Le Tartuffe ou l Hypocrite, directed by Ivo van Hove, La Comédie-­Française, Paris, 2022. Photo: Jan Versveyweld Martial Poirson Translated by Amanda Gann Le Plateau à l uvre Staging Molière in a Time of Commemorations Despite a reception subject...

... Deconstruction Jan Kott I the husband rediscovers his wife in the guise of the Stranger. But In the first scene of The Misanthrope Alceste rushes into in A Doll House the traditional signs of tragedy and comedy...

... Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, is fail. more than a painstaking revival of a classic Just as Titus disguises himself in order Genuine comedy. It is a witty re-examination of our to win favor with society, Nestroy...