...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...

...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...

..., have often been used to dramatize political points, usually attacking absent enemies. Photo: Arko Datta/AFP Photos Portfolio Political Puppets Puppets are inveterate political animals. And like many politicians, they can play on both sides of the fence. Governments and religious...

... follows). Their wildly inventive theater questions and counters nationalism (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...

... 43 1 Yvonne Rainer 2 3 4 5 6 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...

... 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...

...Joan Holden Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 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...

...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...

... were delighted by Nestroy’s daring use of slave language; his Political Satire humorous coded messages set audiences free, at least temporarily, to question and laugh with impunity...

...David F. Beer Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 Notes on an Amharic Political Ghost-Play David E Beer Summoning up the ghosts of national heroes is a popular motif in Ethiopia’s ancient theatrical and literary history, and is part of the allegorical tradition of the coun...

...Michael X. Zelenak Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: IHOWARD BRENTON’S ADAPTATIONS MICHAEL X. ZELENAK oward...

...Michael Zelenak Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 UBU RIDES AGAIN: THE IRONDALE PROJECT AND THE POLITICS OF ICLOWNING MICHAEL...

... and worried about taxi• 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...

...Michael Kustow Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 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...