...! Some Notes on French Combatant Trench Scripts of the First World War I Before we raise the curtain, which is noticeable by its absence . . . —Marcel Astruc and Léon Bruele. Songs! Armaments...

...Laurence Shyer Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Arriving at the New Theatre in style: from a 1910 advertisement. B America's First Literary Manager: John Corbin at the New Theatre Laurence...

...Allen J. Kuharski © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 Allen J. Kuharski Improvisation with a Corpse The Theater of Witold Gombrowicz Enters the Twenty-First Century The totality of Witold Gombrowicz’s life and theatrical work can be grasped only through...

...John Freedman © 2006 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Lost in the Stars, directed by Grigory Dityatkovsky, St. Petersburg, 1999. Photo: Yuri Belinsky John Freedman Russian Theater in the Twenty-First Century A Critic’s Journal...

...Marina Kotzamani Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Red: An Exhibition of Theater Costumes from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century 
 curated by Christian Lacroix
 Palais Garnier, Paris
 October 2005 - January 2006 P roductions Marina Kotzamani Red...

...David Mamet Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 The proclamation and repetition of We discard our first principles the mo- First first principles is a constant feature of life in ment they cause us...

...Scott T. Cummings Copyright © THEATER 1983 1983 THEATER IN’ CONEY ELAN The First Annual Mermaid Parade Scott T. Cummings Life stops for a parade. Instead of cars, the street is filled with people, dressed...

...André M. Zachery © 2016 by André M. Zachery 2016 André M. Zachery Artist’s Journal Futurity and the Containment of Blackness in Twenty-First-­ Century­ Performance The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in his 1994 Flame Wars chapter “Black to the Future.”1...

...Joel Schechter; Colette Brooks Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 “Who’s on First”: Contemporary American Playwriting From the Editors Perhaps the Great American Play will be written this year; Ever since O’Neill, “great” serious...

... of Myself, Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 2013. Photo: Sarah Walker 5Daniel Sack First- Person Plural The Selected Essays of Nicola Gunn (2010 19) Nicola Gunn is a Žrst- person artist. In her works she directs herself, unreservedly, using direct language to recount stories she has...

...Tristan Tzara Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 THE FIRST CELESTIAL ADVENTURE OF MR. EXCEDRIN, FIRE EXTINGUISHER Tristan Tzara MR. BLUEBLUE penetrate the desert hollow out your path howling...

... Felton-Dansky Controlling the Twenty-First Century Suppressed Theater and Global Change I. On the evening of Saturday, December 19, 2004, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in Birmingham, England, planned to open a world premiere: Behzti (Dishonor), by a young Sikh playwright named...

... this spring in the first Are You On, Masters of Culture?” I needed issue of the English language edition of no other explanations. Nor is there any need Kontinent, to be published by Doubleday. to speak about that out-and-out phony...

... in 1971, and the British director Michael Langham succeeded him. Under his artistic direction, the Guthrie Theater stabilized and flourished. When Langham announced he would resign at the end of the 1977 season, an international search for his successor commenced. For the first time during the Guthrie's...

...Jasmine Mahmoud Two early twenty-first century ensembles of color in Seattle—and their methods—anchor this article. The first: sis Productions, which started in 2000 as “Sex in Seattle,” an episodic and humorous theatrical series about the romantic relationships of Asian American women. Conceived...

... the focus was to be on Hirsch's own adaptation of the classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, and the students would find themselves called to a consideration of the spiritual side of human life. For this first two-hour session John Hirsch talked about his life in art; it was one of the things he did best. What...

...C. Carr Holly Hughes began her career at New York's wow Cafe, that “home for wayward girls” featuring work by lesbians. There she developed her first play, The Well of Horniness (1983)—now a classic in certain circles. Hughes moved very quickly from that playful soap opera parody to experimental...

... been chiefly responsible for this development and during the 1975–1976 season he first officially assumed the title. What follows is an edited record of an interview conducted in February 1978. Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Dramaturgy at A.C.T.: An Interview...

...Marco de Marinis; Giovanna Covi, translated by The following article is part of a slightly longer piece, the first section of which simply expands upon the work in reception theory previously carried out by de Marinis, Greimas, Jauss and others (see bibliography) in order to better define...