...Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Politics as Theater, Theater as Politics: An Introduction As the calendar year changed to 1985, readers of 1984 breathed One conimentator has ohservcd that Ronald Reagan’s carver in more easily...

...Joan Holden Satire and Politics in America; or, Why Is that President Still Smiling? Joan Holden Among the pygmies, when somebody gets too big for his if slightly. The Living Theatre and Bread and Puppet...

...Richard Beacham • Political Satire In Great Britain: The 7:84 Company Richard Beacham The 7:84 Theatre Company is the most prominent and successful comic: of songs...

...Daniel Gerould; Jadwiga Kosicka • Political Cabaret In Poland: Jan Pietrzak's Under the Aegis Daniel Gerould and Jadwiga Kosicka Political cabaret...

...Suzanne Cowan Dario Fo in Fanfaru Abducted (1975) 6 Dario Fo, Politics and Satire: An Introduction to Accidental Death of an Anarchist Suzanne Cowan...

...Rustom Bharucha Politics and Satire In• India: The Theater of Utpal Dutt Rustom Bharucha You are one among thousands of people. The theater feels like the The satirist's power seems to have resided, not in secret...

...Jack Zipes Piscator and the Legacy of Political Theater Jack Zipes Although Erwin Piscator spent over a decade in the United States An account of these experiments written by Piscator himself has and piloted...

...Theodore Shank Political Theater, Actors and Audiences: Some Principles and Techniques Theodore Shank The traditional purpose of Western theater in the twentieth cen• Western Europe and the Americas. Often...

... language; his Political Satire humorous coded messages set audiences free, at least temporarily, to question and laugh with impunity at the forms of economic and Joel Schechter and Jack...

...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...

...Claudia Wilsch Case 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 Walser is poised to become one of Europe’s most...

...Eileen Blumenthal Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf being savaged in effigy in April 2000 during a demonstration by Hindus protesting the recent killing of Sikhs in Kashmir. Effigies, first cousin of puppets, have often been used to dramatize political points...

... (and so much else) with wit, craft, and beauty. That’s reason alone to look more closely at their maverick worlds.  — Tom Sellar doi 10.1215/01610775-2007-026 Pink Operettas and Political Games We Hungarians thought politicians and theater got a divorce eighteen years ago. But no such luck...

... Where’s the Passion? 7 8 Where’s the Politics? 9 10 Or, How I Became Interested in Impersonating, 11 12 Approximating, and End Running around My Selves and Others’, 13 14 and Where Do I Look When You’re Looking at Me? 15 16 17 Physiologists agree...

... to impromptu road soccer matches conducted with a flaming ball— aimed at reclaiming the city, resisting processes of gentrification, homogenization, and corporatization. © 2010 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2010 David Freedlander Urban Folk Art Performance, Politics...

...• of the theatre in American political cir• cabs and coffee and whatever. The people cumstances today was held in the Experi• that the theatre does change, and I be• mental Theatre of the Yale Drama lieve this profoundly, are the people in School. Among the participants were...

...Michael Kustow theatre/WAR/news/h istory / POLITICS/theatre by Michael Kustow 1. Aristophanes performed his anti-war comedies, bursting with satire, fantasy and propaganda, at the very peak of the great Peloponnesian War wh ich he oppos• ed, and which brought such disaster...

... the disasters which befalt mortals. social functions it serves. I am not seeking to impose gender politics upon the Greek drama, but rather pointing out that Sophocles, the lost Epigoni, Fr. 189...

...” idiom with a focus on gesture, movement, song, and a predominantly non-verbal dramaturgy. In the following selections from the book, Bharucha repcts on the creation of perfonnance texts in the context of the ethnic and political struggle in Manipur. His criticism is followed...

...Charlotte Canning Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 EDUCATION AND POLITICS AT SEATTLE ICHILDREN’S THEATER CHARLOTTE CANNING f a theater...