...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 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 Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 • Political Satire In Great Britain: The 7:84 Company Richard Beacham The 7:84 Theatre Company is the most prominent and...

...Daniel Gerould; Jadwiga Kosicka Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 • Political Cabaret In Poland: Jan Pietrzak's Under the Aegis Daniel Gerould and Jadwiga...

...Suzanne Cowan Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 Dario Fo in Fanfaru Abducted (1975) 6 Dario Fo, Politics and Satire: An Introduction to Accidental Death of an...

...Rustom Bharucha Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 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...

...Jack Zipes Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 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...

...Theodore Shank Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 Political Theater, Actors and Audiences: Some Principles and Techniques Theodore Shank The traditional purpose of Western theater in the twentieth cen• Western...

... 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 at the...

... Politics of the Mirrored Self In mid-1995, shortly after the final disintegration of the five-member post-Wall direc- torate of the Berliner Ensemble that left Heiner Müller sole leader, I asked him whether Brecht would continue to be central to that...

...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 to...

...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...

...Andrzej W. Tymowski Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 “A VOYAGE ON A BURNING SHIP”: THE POLITICAL DRAMA OF STANISLAWA PRZYBYSZEWSKA...

... appearance, as THEPERSONAL AS POLITICAL do Abraham and Isaac on their way to the chopping block, followed by Charlie Chaplin. DramaContemporary: Germany Or so it is written; what Handke names in the edited by Carl Weber script and what the spectator reads on stage 1996:Johns Hopkins University...

...Ivan Vyrypaev Translated and introduced by Susanna Weygandt, this polemic from the popular and controversial Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev responds to the new “Politics of Culture.” In June 2015, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky published guidelines for artistic creation, which Vyrypaev...

...” 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 by the...

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

...Mac Wellman Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 A Chrestomathv Of 22 Answers to 22 Whollv Unaskable and r! Unrelated Questions Concerning Political and Poetic Theater Mac Wellman...