Search Results for folklore

... of their ambiguities—soaked in the aesthetics of folklore, kitsch, and spectacle. Tompa suggests that “less hierarchical forms of performance, such as postdramatic theater” hold the potential to upset these dominant single narratives with multiviewpoint art, including “forum theater, reenactment, and documentary plays...

... backgrounds for these stories. (While the operetta became an international genre of the monarchy, the so-called folk plays, a similar folkloric theatrical form which reached its summit in the mid-nineteenth century, remained confined within Hungarian national tradition. This form, today considered dead...

.... I chose to change Ibsen’s play as much as I did because I find it profoundly flawed. Ibsen’s sketches and drafts for The Ladypom the Sea show that he began with two quite contradictory ideas. One was a play rooted in a folkloric theme- the impossible Iletail ofdesign relations between...

...-prop that incorporated the spirit and presentational style of the cornmedia dell‘artc with the humor, character types, folklore and popular culture of the Mexican, especially as articulated earlier in the cen- tury by Mexican vaudeville companies that toured the Southwest in tent theaters...

... himself info Lenin, but he didn’f have the nerve. close examination, it turns out that the attitude toward folklore, in contrast to narrator-author is meant to be more impor- Pushkin’s, is either sanctimonious (sancti- tant than the subject matter itself. He...

... and tem- Theutre, Vol. XI1 of Cahiers D’Etudes Africaine porally from them called an audience, and also (Paris; Mouton, 1972), p. 255. those situations where the relationship is not nearly 6. Roger Abrahams, “Folk Arts” in Folklore and Folklfe, so sharply defined. Thus, a spontaneous group...

... writers of the court, with the by a “canon” and “tradition,” for, in the exception of the omniscient Alexander strict sense, Russian drama has not been Pushkin, paid no attention to folklore, and, in my opinion, never will be drama in which was so rich in dramatic material...

... was not presented implements cultural as well as economic made it a symbol of cultural self-de- by a theater company; it was by Conjunto development plans; this offers companies termination in the Caribbean. Folklorico Nacional (the National the long-term commitment which is Folkloric Group...

... the country between the elaboration, any approach or technique that could be of use was second half of the 60’s and 1976 (when as a result of a military coup incorporated with total eclecticism: elements from the regional this form of theater ceased to be), two in particular will be dis- folklore...

... a literal transpos- In 1935 Black playwrights Willis Richardson ing but in some adaptation of its folklore, art- and May Miller published the book Negro History In idioms and symbols, African material seems likely Thirteen Plays, which contained several dramatiza- to influence the art of drama...

... of wooden stage in Gubbio, Italy, facing Italian history and folklore that went several thousand spectators. He wears a unrecorded because the scholars who thin, Chinese black jacket, dark blue sweat- preserved past...

..., folklore in the plays ofCli W time, mood, and sometimes venue are di W er- Tug Yourgrau’s Lubwa p’Chong, and comedy in the dramas of ent.” In African theater generally, he says, dra- The Song of Jacob Niger receive deserving attention. The Žnal mas and performances “do...

..., folklore in the plays ofCli W time, mood, and sometimes venue are di W er- Tug Yourgrau’s Lubwa p’Chong, and comedy in the dramas of ent.” In African theater generally, he says, dra- The Song of Jacob Niger receive deserving attention. The Žnal mas and performances “do...

... of rehearsals and audiotapes of music Victoria Santa Cruz, Director of the Peruvian National groups, and interviews with theatre professionals. The Center for Folkloric Ballet, also stimulated so much enthusiasm for her work Inter-American Relations in New York has donated its entire that she...

... to a lecture written by his friend Stanley 36 return of the repressed Edgar Hyman, which traced Negro American folklore traditions through the figure of the “‘darky’ entertainer,” Ellison wrote: “Even though such performers as [Hyman] mentions appear...

... from the victim and his torturers, politics, by analyzing folklore they discover tively understood by the people so that the she created additional "characters" - a the facts underlying the myths. Boal raises theater is capable of confronting it in woman praying on her knees, a group...

..., to goats and folklore, almost as if the Rip industrial revolution has failed. He prefers a pastoral retreat. Why examine the legend of Van WinkZe in this particular At the same time, there is a brilliant moment...

... vocabulary adapted from kutiyattam, kathakali, Armenian dance, Balinese theater, various folkloric dance traditions, and other primary sources could have easily led not only to derivative performance styles but to a kind of muddled eclecticism, baffling to contemporary audiences. Initially...

... in order to be united in heaven. The primary source for Yao’s The Emerald people may admire those who are able to replace anonymity play, a story from the Sung Dynasty, belongs to this folkloric Bodhisattva - the with fame: historians may glorify the chosen pillars of socie- vein...

... and Start Me to Talking or I’ll Tell addition to the Junebug project, Ain’t undermining the fictional presence of Everything I Know in 1980. In No Use in Going Home, Jodie’s Got the storytelling character he adopts. African-American folklore, the Your Gal and Gone (1989...