...Royston Coppenger Copyright © THEATER 1984 1984 Evil, Bert States wrote in an essay on The Homecoming - the sexual nature of which Orton claimed was influenced by his first two plays - has the “power to arrest for our Lee Breuer’s Gospel delight certain bold lines...

... Kalb The Gospel According to Billy His pulpit, when he performs in theaters, is a red Village Voice distribution box stolen from a street corner, with his own picture displayed in the window. He wears a clerical collar over...

... States wrote in an essay on The Homecoming - the sexual nature of which Orton claimed was influenced by his first two plays - has the “power to arrest for our Lee Breuer’s Gospel delight certain bold lines of force which goodness simply doesn’t possess.” This is the logical...

... and AFTER. LAP. DISSOLVE began to frequent Pentecostal churches, performing and recording with black gospel groups. Through years of playing different RAP . BASS BRIZ...

...- times I find this dichotomy hard to bear. Yvan Sagnet Activist and Writer (Performer in The New Gospel) It was a big honor to be part of the film The New Gospel, not only because Milo Rau is a great director, but because through his works he comments on contemporary dramas and problems, social phenomena...

... Group and Performing Arts Journal Publications. He con- T.R. Burnharn 6 ceived, adapted and directed The Gospel at Colonus, with Billy Cunningham 74 original gospel music by Bob ‘Rlson, and the musical has been Charles Fredericks 5,7,8,9 televised nationally on the PBS series, “Great...

... Group and Performing Arts Journal Publications. He con- T.R. Burnharn 6 ceived, adapted and directed The Gospel at Colonus, with Billy Cunningham 74 original gospel music by Bob ‘Rlson, and the musical has been Charles Fredericks 5,7,8,9 televised nationally on the PBS series, “Great...

... and built his own instru- Breuer’s The Gospel at ments and used microtonal scales, also developed his own methods of singing and inton- Colonus, 1984. Photo: Beatriz Schiller. ing texts. Meredith Monk is perhaps the most famous exponent of nonconventional vocal styles...

... to Bertolt Brecht, Rau is not an idealogue, exposing inconsistencies rather than promoting any single ideology in his work. Milo Rau directing The New Gospel, Matera, Italy, 2019. Photo: Gianni Cipriano Helga Kraft Milo Rau as Influencer A New Realism in Theater With the rapid expansion of the media...

... with us at their own follies, they suffered from confusions or disbeliefat a rousing gospel melody and performed like while it focused on the conceit of Shake• the improbabilities that occurred. It formed rock and roll. They filled out their comical speare's story and its didactic function as well...

... places the pieces into four distinct categories—reenactment, recollection, reactment, and reclassification—each of which allows for a kind of questioning of and engagement with history and the present. Milo Rau s The New Gospel, ntgent, Matera, Italy, 2019. Film still: Thomas Eirich-­Schneider Lily...

... of the ongoing Congolese Kivu conflict and the Syrian Civil War; the play is addressed in several other contributions here. The topic of African refugees is also the focus of his recent Matera projects, The Revolt of Dignity (Die Revolte der Würde; 2019) and its documentary film pendant The New Gospel (Das neue...

... of 1983 excellence. His “problem” is not with stories that start the Twilight Zone Lee Breuer’s and Bob Telson’s The middle-class confknity, British stiff music humming in your head. Gospel at Colonus creates a minor upper lip, the spiritual impover- Neither Gregory nor the audience sensation...

... for The Gospel at Colonus, adapting perspective, if not on the world as such, at least on the world Beckett’s stories in preference to his plays. And yet Breuer’s he has created in his art. resistance to scripts isn’t a symptom, in him, of a resistance This “detached...

... for the remote control wand, point Click. New picture: a satellite’s view it at the TV and click: it sizzles on. A of the mottled blue earth, while an unc- gospel choir croons from the set as the tuous Southern voiceover soothes its picture warms into clarity on a close-up narrative: of a man’s sweat...

... of play collections, including American Melodrama, Irene Haupt 81,83,85 Gallant and Libertine, and Doubles, Demons and Dreamers. Old-vme Gospel Hour 36.37 Heather Henderson...

... of play collections, including American Melodrama, Irene Haupt 81,83,85 Gallant and Libertine, and Doubles, Demons and Dreamers. Old-vme Gospel Hour 36.37 Heather Henderson...

... whit^ Substance, the wasteland has become the entire world. Set “a century or two after our time and possibly an almost equal time after the great thermonuclear war,”18 its two characters are named Mark and Luke, apparently after the Evangelists. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke offer...

... to Euripides gods to be fallible (did Apollo give Orestes the wrong than to Sophocles or Aeschylus. For instance, gospel music advice he raised the status of the common man by was perfect to use with Sophocles as Lee Breuer did in dramaturgically using him in place of the gods (the farmer...

... this spring. For the past nine- (Interview) Vol. 15, no. 2, p. 39; “Lee Breuer’s Gospel,” (Review) Vol. 15, teen years he has been affiliated with the National Playwrights Conference of no. 3, p. 77. the Eugene O’Neill Center, serving as its Artistic Director since 1968. He is Covi, Giovanna. “Theatrical...