...Jackson Polys Jackson Polys s Manifest X, American Realness: Bodies on the Gears, Gibney Theater, New York, 2019. Photo: Megan Heuer 1 19 Jackson Polys Manifest X A lecture-performance co- commissioned by Theater and the American Realness festival, 2019 Target. Aim high? Straight up? How to begin...

...”: excluded from membership in the Greek polis and at the same time a crucial figure in the fight against Troy; dead and at the same time alive; human but living on Lemnos like an animal; extremely vulnerable and yet invin- cible, thanks to Heracles’s bow and poisonous arrows. In contrast to most...

...) the theater might require for its own life. Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, offers an account of 8 the worst sort of places the polis that, in its transitory constitution from the exchange of human speech and action, seems to me to suggest...

.... With so many tautologies repeated unthinkingly and with dangerous conse- quences for a democracy supposedly reliant upon multiple points of view, art and art- ists would have to respond. They will not necessarily renounce and redress the poli- cies of any single administration or military in their work...

... to the horses which caused Oedipus to slay hold," and Polyneices' entrance, fright• his father, the lion and boar of Apollo's ened, with sword drawn, takes on a new prophecy which are Tydeus and Poly• and sinister connotation. neices, the "lions wild" to which Antig...

... it insofar as we things are sometimes the most simple don't try to do anything to end it. I think things. Art and politics, theatre and poli- we should learn this, 1 think we should all tics. Whenever I go around here soliciting know this by now and stop asking our...

... it insofar as we things are sometimes the most simple don't try to do anyth ing to end it. I think th ings. Art and politics, theatre and poli• we should learn this, I think we should all tics. Whenever I go around here soliciting know this by now and stop asking our...

... Theater. not mean that “funniness” is teachable, joke-loving President provides an excel- but it does reflect the increasing recog- lent example of this basic principle of nition that good clowning is an art en- clowning. Astonished by Reagan’s poli- compassing multiple skills, some...

... and social situations —  and for an activism that not only acts for the sake of acting but searches for intel- ligent, creative means of self-­empowerment: artistic strategies and tactics in poli- tics, political strategies and tactics in art.1 It was a big, ambitious effort. Those who...

...-grandmother, or the Virgin Queen of Heaven. My older brother isn’t a policeman, nor is he named Watambo. But he did work in a zoo for a while, not as a bear but as a Neanderthal man. He lived in a glazed poly- styrene cave, surrounded by animatronic dinosaurs. The entrance to his habitat...

... century, associated with writings such as Lessing s Hamburg Dramaturgy and Schiller s Theatre Considered as a Moral Institution as foundational manifestos, a leg- acy that Rau s Ghent Manifesto now extends in the name of a city theater of the future. With its philhellenic focus on the Greek polis...

... theorizing, if not known world is, and how efficacious, is ally the theater has moved outward to en• to society, at least to nature, to the cosmos. problematical and becoming more so. gage the polis, to reflect tradition, give Sherman's does not; it is intransigently dramatic form to community values...

..., the editors shy away from criticisms as anything other than just a refusal including contemporaneous discussions of the to take sexual politics seriously at all. queer sigdicance of the Ridiculous. (I’m thinking Dasgupta’s limited understanding of poli- particularly of Stefan Brecht’s fascinating com...

... representations of reality, insofar as it crit- icizes itself as theatre, obliges us to pass from ideology to poli- tics, invites us to refuse the former in order to engage in the latter. It is an opening upon reality and a preparation for action. (T.R., p. 286) NOTES...

... massacres and poli- cies, stood in small separate displays; museum-style plaques or exhibit labels stated the historical facts, underscoring the racial and social injustices of colonialism. For instance, a woman perched among props resembling human...

... massacres and poli- cies, stood in small separate displays; museum-style plaques or exhibit labels stated the historical facts, underscoring the racial and social injustices of colonialism. For instance, a woman perched among props resembling human...

... of concentration. For me, that was much more focused than the political aspects. Malina: I'm sorry about that. To that degree, it's unsuccessful. I mean to the degree that it doesn't affect you politically. But perhaps it affects you poli- tically in certain ways in which it affects you...

... However, whereas the montage served Eisenstein as a “poly- on stage draws a rubber dagger and starts to menace his or her phonic structure [which] achieves its total effect through the fellows. Hands with knives appear from the wings; threatening...

... information flow, contacts, a frame mad, appears as only the most pathetic in a whole for co-production and exchange, and, in pack of displaced persons victimized by his poli- moments of crisis or threat, considerable interna- tics. Refugees, exiles, the confused, the homeless tional pressure...

..., to it once in the first interlude, when Poli- Molière took the best from his forebears and chinelle sings a bit of it in Italian. But Lully? contemporaries. I was weaned on Perelman and Forget it. Mark and I delight...