...Elfriede Jelinek Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Interviewed by Gitta Honegger I Am a Trümmer f rau of Language Elfriede Jelinek, Interviewed by Gitta Honegger gitta honegger How are you notified when God,” I said. I was relieved; here I was in my you...

...Claudia Wilsch Case Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Wandering Whores, directed by Jacqueline Kornmüller, Staatstheater Stuttgart, 2004. Photo: Gudrun Bublitz Claudia Wilsch Case The Political Is Personal Theresia Walser’s New Stage Language Theresia...

... of language in wartime, conducted in 2008. The playwrights respond to the Iraq War by discussing the responsibility of theater artists in crisis and salient examples from their work. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Moderated by Caridad Svich Now or Later, by Christopher...

... and discuss their theatrical roots and implications. Martha Graham’s synthesis of theater If we need something to offset our realistic theater, and dance has yet to be fully accepted as part of the undoubtedly the dominant theater of our age, if we theatrical canon. The critical language...

...Joel Schechter; Jack Zipes Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 Those among us wondering how theater can survive and pro- Slave Language test injustice in reactionary times may find...

...Liza Henderson Copyright © THEATER 1988 1988 SERIOUS MONEY AND CRITICAL COST: LANGUAGE IN THE MATERIAL WORLD...

...Gitta Honegger Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 This German Language.. . An Interview with Elfriede Jelinek Gitta Honegger On a home movie screen a middle-aged woman carrying a suitcase wanders along a mountain path. Hannah Arendt...

..., interviews, letters, and play excerpts collected in BODYLANGUAGE this volume (his first English-language edition) were mostly written in the 1980s. Novarina declares war on the French lan...

... this spring in the first Are You On, Masters of Culture?” I needed issue of the English language edition of no other explanations. Nor is there any need Kontinent, to be published by Doubleday. to speak about that out-and-out phony...

..., whose plays are currently deflning the theater repertoire in our country. It seems as if young writers today are having a difficult time finding a common language with the country's older playwrights (Viktor Rozov, Alexandr Shtein, Afanasy Salinsky) and with the middle generation (Alexandr Gelman...

...Bernd Stegemann Ten years after the original German-language publication of Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theater —a book that altered the critical discourse about contemporary theater practice—Bernd Stegemann weighs the ramifications of Lehmann's book as European theater artists struggle...

...Jean Graham-Jones This introduction to the author’s translation of Rafael Spregelburd’s play situates both text and production within the Argentine artist’s oeuvre and poetics and analyzes them as critiques of contemporary globalized society. The article argues that Spam proposes language as a tool...

... terms; tunity to ponder the means through Abraham, huddled on his mountain- the flow of language in its sonorous which language works to create drama. top, believing against all reasonable ex- qualities (“stilted” is an antonym to For many of us, unfortunately, the issue pectations that he...

... on stage can be endlessly varied and expanded through each spectator’s imagination. A play without words turns out to be all about language-its possibilities contained in and released by images. Always present in the square, though neither named nor suggested, is the challenging spirit...

...) The nature and function of language is to Words fail to faithfully reflect what the speaker some extent the subject of Peter Handke’s plays. In feels, thinks, or sees, and the self-conscious charac- Sev-Accusation, language is seen as a means of ac- ter adopts an adversary stance towards his own...

... tom sellar  Some theatermakers familiar with is what motivates me to reengage in the basis your Russian-­ and Ukrainian-­language plays of psychological understanding — ­right to the speak of your work in reverential tones, but in the core, to the word itself. English-­speaking world we have...

... - - I with the German language several nouns or transformations of verbs into nouns. It is impossible this cloud around me to translate them into English which doesn’t permit such flexibility, that I keep a a house...

...Liza Henderson SARRAUTE’S SILENCES LIZA HENDERSON he connection between language and Not in our too soft words, words we have made supple, time...