...Colette Brooks Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 The Theatrical Image On Photography by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977 Colette Brooks The powers of photography have in effect de-Platonized our under- standing of reality, making it less...

...Michael Feingold Copyright © by yale/theatre 1970 1970 EMPHASIS The Visual Image "You are"-the hip crowd has been trying ten years later we would have to tell him, to tell us of late-"what you eat." No one breaking it gently, that so do political...

...John Freccero Copyright © by yale/theatre 1970 1970 BLOW-UP: From the Word to the Image by John Freccero In the vocabulary of the communication arts, the word "linear" has come to have a pejorative meaning, standing for a mode of expression, indeed for an entire culture which...

...Charles Swoope Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 37 Images in a Vast World: An Appreciation of Stark Young Charles Swoope A quarter of a century ago, at the publication of the final collection of Stark Young's dramatic criticism, Immortal Shadows, Eric...

... in Living Images (and there are many, unusual in a critical field not notable for honesty of emotion) occurs as a footnote to Kauffmann’s review of the 1971 film Love, featuring Hungarian actress Lili Darvas. Kauffmann lets us know from the start that his longtime friendship...

...Jan Lauwers © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Images of Freedom Jan Lauwers, Interviewed by Erika Rundle Jan Lauwers found his niche as a director Life Is Rare. The first installment, Caligula, during the New Wave of theater and dance in modeled after Albert...

... Postcards from my Balcony, begun in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto. As emanations of a care-based writing practice, these entirely textual “postcards” include image descriptions, written messages, and voice memos. Amy Amantea s Where s the ppe?, from Pandemic Postcards...

... of the work, the most important single element of the image. It should be as absolute as can be managed. Dark- ness at this level becomes a form of sense deprivation. Its effect is to cancel the group experience of theater, to cancel the awareness of surrounding space, to throw the spectator...

... of televisual corporations, or an issuance from the complex of government and industry, a significant component of spectacularity has diffused into the realms of the crowd unreal — online amoebic communities and nonlocatable sites that produce and consume images via frenetic peer-­sharing...

... This dossier presents a photographic narrative of Theater s history, wherein pho- tographs oscillate between the historical status of an event and the utopic uncertainty of dreaming a utopia both placeless and promising. Theater recorded as a visual image lies between these two regimes of experience, between...

...Kenneth Collins © 2017 by Kenneth Collins 2017 Day 47. Image by the artist Portfolio Worth the Review Kenneth Collins The New York Times has a slogan: “All the news that’s fit to print.” But as a theater maker in New York City, the inclusivity, in terms of discourse...

... men in grey suits with blank faces - Rischbieter does not condemn Wilson for segregating text perhaps the “Hollow Men” of the T. S. Eliot poem from image: in fact, he feels that this enhances understanding printed in the program: “Shape without form, shade of the text...

... and are now engaged by major pretation of the written text, and to en- of Seattle staged a German Festival. The fes- state theaters. Nel began his career as an ac- courage the creation of concrete images on tival began with a production of Brecht's In tor in the radical early days of Peter Stein's...

... a single glass sphere of water, I further distorted their projected images with additional spheres of water, resting them in steel trivets. For the final film, I edited the separate videos together, along with footage of the live performance. On its own, the script proposes an entire, phenomenal worldview...

... Abbas and Ruanne Abou- Rahme featuring a new performance by the sound and image performance group Tashweesh, an improvised constellation that brings the artists together with musi- cian/performer Muqata a. Tashweesh combines their different practices in a joint per- formance, using sound, music...

... of actors and spectators in the theatrical pro- duction of images” (185 – 86). We might also take the term — more...

...- analysis. Photographic images of people playing, pears in a white shirt and checked skirt, Such is Edward Lucie-Smith’sdescrip- or playing at playing, spoke to one blond hair pulled back by a headband. tion of the qudities of Symbolism in his another. The picture frame...

... vulnerable to a logical criticism usually in- The virtues and the miracles of the sun appropriate for a pure image-theater ex- Into a temperate furnace; temh dull nature perience. For that reason alone, Dead End...

... Greatest City after Paris and The History of the Main Complaint. Among fifty-two billboards in apparently nonstrategic city locations, three images around remnants of the mine dumps became the germ of Ractliffe’s Inner City Works. Three more by Clive van den Berg recalled the ghosts of miners...

... of theatrical conventions as the Mean Ings): ter of art, and to point to a place signs or images of shifting patterns of where it can be found, if only in a empathy. His attention to empathic “the nature and primary function set of abstract ideas or truths, ‘or response roots his discussion...