...Rustom Bharucha Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Theater in Baltimore • New Ideas In Search of a Theater Rustom Bharucha Originally founded in 1974 by Don Boros as The mance...

..., in which Mac performs American music from each decade of us history. Krasinski observes that Mac uses “popular” to mean not “true greatness” but rather the more complex, and perhaps uncomfortable, idea of “concocted hierarchy.” She concludes by using each segment of Mac’s performance to reflect on cultural...

... permanent stance that the theater can provide a vessel for transformation, bringing altered consciousness and maybe a better society.” Tracing this history, Sellar illuminates how Theater , as a journal and a reflection of its object of inquiry, has responded to the evolving idea of a public — a sphere...

... ideas of the performances by various means—including architectures, human bodies, historical narratives, and digital technologies—to invoke past performances within the present. 21 Nicholas Lowe Discovering the Exhibition by Curating It Performing Goat Island s Archive I am struck again...

...Árpád Schilling In this manifesto, Hungarian independent director Árpád Schilling, artistic director of the renowned ensemble Krétakör, articulates his ideas on directing, acting, and Hungary's theatrical tradition and producing structures. He gives examples of theatrical exercises used...

... , Jerry Springer: The Opera , and My Name Is Rachel Corrie , explores ideas about the powers of live performance to provoke and offend, and parses contemporary debates about what actually constitutes the conceptual category of “censorship.” Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Miriam...

... a peoples’ the Invisible Theater becomes visible, and present, he is actively engaged in in- theater whose activities were similar to theater loses its special shared emotional novating theatrical ideas with his Center those of a large communal collective. experience. for the Theater...

... JEFFREY M. JONES Editor’s Note: This article began as private impulse of an assumed “classic” norm.1 The orthodox correspondence in 1986 between Mac Wellman and conservative, on the other hand, seeks to preserve the idea Jeffrey Jones and, in publishing it in Theater, we...

... with poetic West as a metaphor for the attempt to only people reading this are people ideas in plays. I just got hooked on it, create a mythology out of afiagrnented who have poems and short stories I didn’t wake up one morning and say existence. Her plays feature a wide and essays...

... not passionate about what you’re doing, you tend tistic Director is the idea of an artistic dictatorship, where you to beget Wonder Bread productions. I’ve always been amazed that start to see yourself in a position of power. You can get cynical theaters would ask me if I would like to do, for example...

..., Berlovitz- than our own - the Jeune Lune scope is broader. In the Desbois, Dominique Serrand, Vincent Gracieux and, later, everyday world of Yang Zen Froggs, the characters are Robert Rosen settled on the idea of forming a company. mutated versions of Everyman, and their problems Having chosen...

...: Lidia Rossner Agonism and the Next Word Florian Malzacher Interviewed by Tom Sellar Critic, dramaturg, and curator Florian Mal- good idea or not? I was always fine with using zacher currently serves as curator and artistic this term as a provocation. A provocation, on director...

... games. We’re a couple of kids theorized by Viola Spolin, is a controlled form of play that in a giant intellectual Toys’RUs, pulling teaches communication skills and is a method of W boxes of ideas off the shelves and dumping approaching problems...

... and poli- practices consists simply of opposing them to past tics, what would you say its function is? What is practices? the purpose of Gob Squad? While it is beyond the scope of this intro- sean patten The whole idea...

... to solve their problems. Chesterton says that when a society tal ideology, the fundamental discourse of the show, had not been or institution is in trouble, that's exactly when you need a man of adequately agreed upon and understood and accepted by both direc• ideas more than anything else. Because it's...

... hundred years, let’s say? meable “social space for controversy . . . talking and At the same time, what do we do now with interpretation”1 and announced that you would this table and two chairs?” It can be poor or temporarily rename the National Choreographic very loud, but there was this idea...

... done. was that nothing of history or any other subject could make a poem What is the real job? Stark Young had an answer that is shock- worth reading, could justify a poem’s existence. To be justified, it ing in its simplicity. He said that the artist has some idea: the critic had to exist...

..., Thebes, is so ring to is an idea I got from talking to Rafael dependent on a backstory. Oedipus depends Spregelburd, a director I met in Buenos Aires. on it because that’s how he rules. The people He’s...

... headline with the title of Gordon Rogoff ’s collected essays, The- ater Is Not Safe. His critical acumen, which has often appeared in these pages, easily anticipates the concerns of the commission. Authentic theater takes us to dangerous places within ourselves and allows us to entertain risky ideas...

... is clear is what is immediately accessible . . . the mere skin of life.” At the hollow core of The Theatre and Its Double one finds only ideas...