...Anne Washburn Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 By Americans, for Americans a play about the Romanian Revolution of 1989 with hallucinations, phosphorescence, and bears Communist Dracula Pageant design sketch, American Repertory Theatre, 2008. Photo: Courtesy...

...Liviu Malita; Tom Sellar Tom Sellar interviews Romanian theater scholar Liviu Malita, who has recently unearthed records of theater censorship during Ceau escu's communist regime. Malita discusses his research at the Archive of the General Directorate for Press and Printing (DGPT...

...Razvan Penescu In this personal essay, Romanian publisher (LiterNet.ro) Razvan Penescu writes about his decision not to applaud a poor performance at the National Theater of Bucharest and how his dissent represents an expressive freedom that was disallowed in communist Romania. © 2009 by Yale...

...Alina Nelega Alina Nelega offers a playwright's perspective on the development of playwriting in post-communist Romania. She details the challenges faced by new playwrights in a primarily visual, director-driven theatrical culture, and discusses the history of programs like Dramafest and dramAcum...

..., the Spanish Second Republic’s Ministry of Public Instruction (MPI)—one of the two ministries held by Communists during most of the war—founded a National Theater Council. Four months later, the same ministry added a guerrilla theater division...

... as possible. I have difficulty expressing nobody says I got less political. On the contrary, I have the feeling this, but I always think, even if one is way down at the bottom as they can no longer categorize me as a Communist and leave it at an intellectual, an artist, a writer, one must have another ap...

... introduction sketches Kott’s wartime and postwar political biogra- phy as part of Poland’s communist underground and eventual government, explaining his signifi- cance among Marxist critics, particularly such postwar Marxist humanists as Leszek Kolakowski. Esslin seems to concur with Brook‘s opinion...

... in the wake of the Reichstag Fire in 1933. He spent eight in America through articles. essays, lectures and above all two years as a refugee in Scandinavia before coming to the United books The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of Theater States in 1941. Suspected of communist...

... biography. Two years ago Wüthrich began to update and expand his dissertation for publication. In the course of his investigations he was swamped by calls from elderly Swiss burghers who in one way or another had some contact with the allegedly Communist refugee while he had tried in vain to secure...

... also glimpse in the collapse of East European Communism the por- tentous certainty that it probably never would, because now all Communists had proven to be failures. With the removal of the Red Menace, it would never again seem necessary to do Brecht right, if at all. FERRAN...

...Steven Oxman Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams by David Savran 1992: University of Minnesota Press Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Cold War Cowboys cent female character in all...

.... An example is the black leader not be reliable. A. Philip Randolph, usually seen by One can see why. Robeson had many Duberman, himself no Communist, as friends and many foes, and the two ore has been...

... than an hour’s drive from Auschwitz in the formerly German city of Opole and performed the piece in the shadow of the Polish Communist Party’s rising anti-Semitic cam- paign in the late 1960s-a campaign that resulted in the forced emigration of the majority of Poland’s remaining Jewish...

...Anne Washburn; Anne Kauffman Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Interviewed by Alex Grennan Anne Washburn and Anne Kauffman rehearsing The Communist Dracula Pageant, American Repertory Theatre, Boston, 2008. Photo: Courtesy of Mimi Lien Strange Times...

.... • Utpal Dutt's relation with the three Communist parties in India His production of Barricade, a staggering historical spectacle set has been, to say the least, a tempestuous affair. According to in Berlin 1933, deals with the murder of a certain Judge Zauritz. Samik Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta's most...

...), not a common language but one in which he excelled stylistically. The essays on Shakespeare, later so famous, were written in the fifties in a coun- try with closed borders, concerned local productions (for example, “Hamlet after the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and could have...

... established directors, actors, and set design- ers continued to follow aesthetics they shaped under the constraints of the communist regime’s censorship and defended the values of both Stanislavsky’s acting system and the model of large state theaters’ receipt of 90-percent funding by public sources...

... and War in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, May 27, 2000. 35 05-Irmer.final 5/2/01 10:50 AM Page 36 irmer Sartre’s communist heretics...

...• munist leadership at a place called Naxalbari, in Darjeeling District. The Left Communists, who were the most powerful...

... of them originally came to Poland on academic exchanges, but they have become pioneers of capitalism, starting a huge open-­air market in the spectacular ruins of a derelict communist stadium on the other side of the river in Warsaw. This stadium-­market became my working site for three years...