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... From June 6 through June 15, 1981, committed to the concept of emancipatory Meinhof’s the Grips Theater of West Berlin was the theater, and it did provide insights into re- venue of the Second International cent...

... in tional Children’s and Youth Theater which children could make more social use Festival, bringing together some of the best of their imagination. From 1969-1971, ensembles from Europe and Canada. Grips...

... In 1968 the Grips Theater of West Berlin began developing an "emancipa- tory children's theater." A group of cabaret actors, writers, educators and social workers wrote and performed...

...Jack Zipes © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Thomas Ahrens and Regine Seidler in Grips Theatre’s Melodys Ring , Berlin, 2000. Photo: David Baltzer Jack Zipes Political Children’s Theater in the Age of Globalization Thirty years ago I went...

... himself. Leopold moves from myself into? Less than a year my ears and besides, I am the tragic to the absurd as he speaks ago I was strong and healthy, depressed my soul is in the in fragments and manages full confident, tireless, impassioned. grip of a kind of apathy I spend...

...: “As soon as there is a power relation, there is a possibility of resistance. We can never be ensnared by power: we can always modify its grip in deter- minate conditions and according to a precise strategy.”6 Foucault never assumes that nothing qualifies as resistance except a reversal of the dynamic...

..., and who maintains his silence in spite of his growing agony. A gripping duet for one voice. If this scene does not succeed, because the Marenka is busy not with Jenik but with herself and, misled by the faulty German translation, performs this aria with a display...

... idol; Nora kneels to beg help from ample, call for a box set with four doors and sionary and gripping. The full-bloodedness Torvald, and is spurned into a balletic an atticful of furniture and knicknacks. Bar- of this performance feels precisely true to the posture like that of a rejected...

... at the Studio Museum in Harlem — traces of a body in pain. In November 2013 artist Tameka Norris, decked out in a deep red jumpsuit complemented by matching bangles and coifed Afro, stood barefoot solemnly gazing at an awaiting crowd by a knife gripped between her lips. Exercising her teeth and tongue...

...- gests that instead of attempting to solidify a media specificity for theater, we should be thinking about the ways “theatrical strategies modify the grip of mass cultural forma- tions.”6 Bay-­Cheng takes up this challenge to consider theater “as a form of media” in her book with Jennifer Parker...

... to lack grip or point, cuts obliquely. The strange joints that hold the world together call for unconventional methods of carving, and comedy s cryptic daggers of the imagination are arguably more necessary than ever. 4 up front Notes 1. Árpád Szakolczai, Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Rebirth...

... that make Cleopatra, the Queen of on inside it-toes flashing by and grip• Egypt, one of history's all-time great ping the stage floor as though they were actresses: a figure of wide enough fingers, thigh muscles rippling, stomach human power to appeal to such a heaving...

...- mate, ironic portrait of a marriage in Betting melon gripped by the eponymous hero on the Dust Commander to the operatic becomes both blessing and curse. This word grandeur of The Death of the Last Black Man in and imageplay, at once joyously anarchic...

...," that "suffering of the soul" which psy- chologists have labeled "melancholia" and which St. John of the Cross calls the "dark night of the soul." During such periods individuals are gripped by the chthonic powers living within...

... the end of the play, the Slave appears to describe Oedipus’ blinding: his fingers had stabbed deep into his sockets he hooked them gripping the eyeballs and he tugged twisting and dragging with all his strength till they gave way and he flung them from him...

... MAN . . . You get up knowing whatever your troubles is you can get a grip on them MARGARET E. GLOVER ’causethe blues...

... between crit- are a sign of hope. Any theater that wants to shake ical language and criticism’s ends. the grip of America’s dominant modes of percep- Stage language and the language of staging tion should take courage: a new, even...

... grip us so powerhlly if they were merely dystopian- there’s a thrill to the Last Judgment that’s absent in Brave New World or 1984 or in a play like R. U.R., however much more plausible they are. Dystopia, unlike apocalypse, is never welcomed. Dystopia is apocalypse’s rational twin...

... to a cheap romance novel that finds its bombastic end in Hollywood films. Once such a shadow of true drama is established, no one sheds a tear when such a prod- uct of decay becomes evening entertainment. Believability To ask the question another way: what makes theater such a gripping event...

... community of gifted Asian artists: fellow scholarship holders from Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Manila. This should have been splendid, but one big problem remained: their minds had been gripped by the big bad monster of Western cultural hegemony. “Every- body was turned towards New...