...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...

...” 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...

... 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 at...

... 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, and 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...

... identity 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek Theater & Politics by Zygmunt Hübner, Edited and Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, 1992: Northwestern University Press Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Politics on an makes an uncompromising effort to embrace...

... Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1969 The Theatre in American Political Life A Symposium On March 15, 1968, a midnigh t teach-in and screamed "Yes, strike!" and then and discussion on the place and relevance they all went out and worried about taxi...

...Théâtre Universitaire de Nancy Copyright © by yale/theater 1969 1969 On the Difficulty of Putting Politics in Charge by the The2tre Universitaire de Nancy During May-June 1968, several members of the Thedtre Universitaire of Nancy, France, collaborating with striking workers in...

... with major public events of its time - scar, in the minds, and maybe in the sub- deal with them while they are still making sequent actions, of our spectators. The the headlines? Can live theatre intervene theatre, in other words, tells its own kind in politics and history by...