...Nikos Psacharopoulos Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 Directing Greek Drama: A Comment By Nikos Psacharopoulos The time was ripe for the emergence of answerer. Dialogue, a prime requisite for tragedy when, sometime at the end of theatre, evolved...

...Michael Feingold Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 Do We Need Greek Drama? We have no proof that the ancient Greeks relevant-in Greece-it cannot now be ever existed. (H. G. Wells: IIHow do you freely performed, because of the same know the world was not created just a military...

... the disasters which befalt mortals. social functions it serves. I am not seeking to impose gender politics upon the Greek drama, but rather pointing out that Sophocles, the lost Epigoni, Fr. 189...

...Andrew Szegedy-Maszak Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject by Clifford Ashby 1999: University of Iowa Press © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 13-The30.3-Books.ak 124-133 10/18/00 11:32 AM Page 131...

...John Barton Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Notes on The Greeks John Barton I believe that Greek Tragedy needs a fresh look. I want to ques• tion some of the stage traditions about its tone and how it should be performed today. Whenever I have seen a Greek...

...Richard Beacham Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Part III, The Gods: Orestes. John Shrapnel (Apollo), Janet Suzman (Helen). 36 John Barton Directs The Greeks Richard Beacham Twelve years ago the first issue of Theaters predecessor...

...Rustom Bharucha Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 The Bacchae directed by Klaus Michael Gruber, Schaubiihne am halleschen Ufer, Berlin, 1974. 64 Directing the Greeks Rustom Bharucha Directing a Greek classic frequently involves a confusion of Quite...

... of a traditional British education, learning Greek and Latin at a Ashland, Oregon and Stratford, Ontario. young age; while still in his teens he was able to read and translate Peter Arnott has written a number of books, including Intro• classical poetry. He also developed an interest in puppetry, and duction...

...Kenneth Cavander Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 Magic Circles/Inner Space Kenneth Cavander In the theatrical family, Greek drama is insignia; what lies outside the area of a pensioned-off grandmother, honored overlap is as great as, or greater than, on ceremonial occasions...

... Cavander In the theatrical family, Greek drama is insignia; what lies outside the area of a pensioned-off grandmother, honored overlap is as great as, or greater than, on ceremonial occasions, but most of what is contained within. the time merely tolerated as a com• plaining old invalid. When...

... you predicted that ancient Greek drama Andrei Serban's Medea is a production I will remember forever. would be quite timely in the 1970s; and the decade did see His first staging of the play at La Mama in New York employed a remarkable stagings of the classics by Gruber, Ronconi, text...

... Handy, you sure have stuck tion’ as some critics would have it, but with us like a good ole horse rarin’ for with an exoteric ‘version’of Sophocles’ battle.” original, a version that not only opens Is this how the Greeks spoke in 410 up Sophocles’ original to us in all its B.C.? Of course...

... trials. One takes also like hierarchies of order, well-con• place on the stage when the Greek structed plays, strict differences between leaders judge whether or not a traitor genres. Even madness is tolerated if it can receive a proper burial; in the is confined to a clinic...

... wreaking wonderfully sweet tyranny like blue cornflowers blue german cornflowers on her subjects & the Queen WAS a Ger- man though she spoke greek. For four hundred years the Turks ruled the greeks & the greeks could never forgive them for that though the blood of both hard...

... the spectacular elements of music in Greek drama. It is Greek theater were missing a relatively inflectionless V-efrWe*t from most performances...

... of Penthesilea, the last Amazon queen, with and Edward Bond. His tormented life and the great Achilles, most famous of all the spectacular suicide were the subject of Greek warriors, on the battlefields before Heinrich...

... into joy: “hell” has exploded and has flowed out into a horn of plenty. -Mikhail Bakhtin 1. According to Greek tradition, Philoktetes, son of King Poias, inherited from Heracles the bow and poisonous arrows to which that future...

.... 67 Did you decide to we ancient Greek because youfeared that if the words could be understood on the he1of information this might deafen the actors and the audience to the other kwels? We used ancient Greek in order to examine what is hidden in those particular sounds. You know...

...Andrew Szegedy-Maszak Theatre in Ancient Greek Society by J. R. Green, 1994: Routledge Copyright © Theater 1997 1997 SZEGEDY-MASZAK ANDREWSZEGEDY-MASZAK pottery, on the other hand, is remarkably durable. Green...

... with the can theatre. It wants to foster a way of atom, it is necessary both to have thinking about this theatre that refuses models and to change them. We have received mythologies and practices which the Greek model and we have our own. dwindle the heart and numb the imagina• Our most honest...