...Alisa Solomon © 2001 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2001 Theater 31.3-02 Solomon.sh 10/16/01 4:22 PM Page 2 Alisa Solomon Irony and Deeper Significance Where Are the Plays...

...C.B. Coleman Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 IMILITANT IRONY, REVOLUTIONARY TIME C.B.COLEMAN ith the exception of notes from Meyerhold, contemporary ac...

... (part burlesque, part sentimental bathos), its in- The Ironies of Enemies adequate performances (except for Chaplin and Martha Raye), and its indifference...

..., and so on by King Industry, inJt ironies that had to be pointed out King Military, and King University. Get It? Three kings. "The future of America is from the audience or the blind, sincere War!" we all shout, and run away with some singing "Silent Night" over bad imitation politicals that make...

... gun, and so on by King Industry, .ing -- ironies that had to be pointed out King Military, and King University. Get It?Three kings. "The future of America is from the audience or the blind, sincere War!" we all shout, and run away with some singing "Silent Night" over bad imitation politicals...

... a matter of moral expedience. It’s the great Modernist impulse, repeated as farce.” The joke, however, is wearing thin, and the laughter is dying away. Irony, as Dee writes, “is approaching a kind of critical mass in our culture...

... dance” in which Antinova moved an insightful assessment of American theater everything but her feet. It was, she admits, “a today. preposterous dance,” but, luckily, “the artists America is plagued by “geezer theater.” adored its self-referential ironies.” She...

... satiric intent, becoming a the futile little dreams of order man vision of total irony, reflecting the creates to counteract that anarchy. At absurd ity which contro Is ex istence, the same time, the play is a fantasy allowing man the luxurious illusion of embodying the romantic...

... for children. In this contemporary moment of postsincerity and pro-­irony, artists can carve out space in the theater for elusive ideas of authenticity, of truth, of unperformed and unpolished reality to emerge without apology. Both Gob Squad’s Before Your Very Eyes and 600 Highwaymen’s Employee...

... anthem. sion, digression, and irony: he is an autodidact 160 productions who has never met a material fact that he didn’t through Ishmael, scores a philosophical point like, an observer who absorbs all but rarely acts...

... the it is relevant to measure their accomp- unsettling anxieties and unspoken dif- lishment against Chekhov’s obliqueness ferences of any couple groping towards and irony, it is more central to regard a rapport...

...- tire season from the rnoney that goes into one 57 of those special moments. There was, of course, an added irony to the performances of Arien which required fresh...

... not, but neither did they comic and tragic irony, but also refracts speak in the windy, neo-Elizabethan our own modem notions of tragedy and idiom used by Gilbert Murray, and ‘Justice’through it. Calling Pound’s ver- which Pound felt had all but exter- sion a ‘translation’ is inaccurate; writ- minated...

... and the horror of nuclear holocaust, sets up a strangely caustic dramatic irony: what we see unceasingly undercuts what we hear. For example, the report submitted by General L.R. Groves to the Secretary of War describing the first atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, is read...

... of the text serves to comment upon those adjacent to it, generating codes of meaning from the juxtaposition of apparently unrelated episodes. This sophisticated network of analogies and ironies is the essence of Vinaver’s dramaturgy. “Irony - that is to say the brutal discrepancy between what...

... be Wishing perhaps to atone for the unfortunate obscuring of too didactically intrusive in so ostensibly simple a play. Irony and Orwell’s central political message: the tyrannical impulses inherent comment may, of course, also be conveyed through sensitive acting, in a communist revolution which...

... European, really. A sense of irony This morning an actress in the Yale pro- helps them to weather history. I don’t You visited Poland last year. Did this duction was discussing how Chopin is mean heavy irony or totally distancing affect your writing of the play? not a play where characters...

..., personal nostalgia urges individualism and proximity. Seussical taps into feelings of familiarity. It had a great concept—every- body’s favorite children’s books live onstage. Unfortunately, along the way the good doctor’s rich irony was lost, and without it his quirky creatures were left smiling...

... a is nothing if it isn’t about the awakening of an minor character from any one of Shakespeare’s irony fundamental to all these notions of duty plays and rewrote it based on the minor charac...

... it tant note that American plays in this tradition training, together with the ensuing conflation of to life and art, led to a comparatively new cir- contain no trace of the irony that marks the cumstance in American acting - the psychorOgy works of European playwrights who share...