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...Martin Harries Harries looks back at Samuel Beckett’s complex intermedial experiments to historicize the question of theater’s relationship to “new” media, and argue for a more nuanced theorization of theater’s exchanges with other media, and theater’s status as a medium in itself. © 2012...

...- the play’s bureaucrats in current day Washington, D.C., served several very different poetry readings where one Senator Hums obstructs funding for a deserving near Mayakovsky’s statue in 1958. At the project. Mayakovsky himself suffered from official unveiling...

... of these identifications point to the peculiar, already suspect status of the play as text — as drama, if we accept Eric Bentley’s distinction between drama as the written form of theater and the play as the performative form. The question of which of these is the “first American play” invites us to consider...

...- 37 remorse unable to “free himself from the earth‘s crust.” The statue, once wrested from the “dead’ stone, was “entombed...

..., for the classical witness is compelled by the relationship to accept a status inferior to the classical artist whose work he admires - a status of permanent inferiority. Why this should be so - why aggression and submission need be so inextricably linked - is probably best left for Hafold Bloom to explicate...

.... the sky. The marble equestrian statue is framed by the relief fac• But the sensation of the evening was not Mahler's tragic ings of the burial niches. A black wall with a life-size portrait of the Mozart; it was Roller's scenic concept of it: side "towers" and a Commendatore provides the background...

... a turning of the tables, but ultimately as op- world. Rather Penthesilea kills Achilles series of improvisations on life in the Greek pressive and destructive as the male society it because Ulysses, mastermind of the status and Amazon camps in which the emphasis fights? quo and keeper...

... for a wife. 68 He wished to have- He did not say "My statue." That was too hard a thing to ask for- So he said, "one like it." But Venus understood what his prayer really meant: And when he came home and kissed his statue He felt the lips grow warm The flesh give way...

... even through death, the woman resurrects herself from the statue of Bodhisattva, is both a constant topic and an unspeak- Underworld in order to “live” with her husband. They may able mystery. The maids marvel at the unique statue with reti- suffer from being born to serfdom, but they can transcend...

... left to live. About ly watchful, black-faced mannequin that tions that form part of the process of prepara- twenty hours before he invites the statue to stood alone on the naked stage, dressed up in tion but which find only indirect, oblique ex- supper.” During the rehearsals, moreover, the gaudy...

... going to the theater and being is being staged, especially one that you recommended for a pro• aware ofdramatic literature is not a status-giving activity. In other duction? Do you attend opening readings? words, it gives you status in this country to have a Cadillac; it gives...

.... For the Comedy of Errors, rather a sick man who built a garden out- the director and I wanted something sug- side Rome, full of sculptures of monsters, gesting musical comedy, and we decided including a famous Hell Mouth. One to have a painted set, flat, with bright statue...

... revolves around a number of endemic issues, from exorbitant tuition fees to a curriculum that remains, for the most part, trapped in the colonial paradigm. The 2015 protests first gained prominence when University of Cape Town student Chumani Maxwele threw excrement at the statue of Cecil John...

... with This probably explains why the studio’s basic concern dur- the sincerity of nonprofessionals. Besides which, the audience ing this time of change became its social standing or, more did not expect great mastery from the studios as much as specifically, its legal status and economic independence. The honesty...

..., It's Pheidas got blue balls rolling first They'd turn the rhetoric up, then whisper: by humping statues in a certain shrine. BEWARE OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS And Pericles, who thought he'd get the IN OUR MIDST! blame, Yes, indeed, old Athens, like a lady...

... be the same - only differences in material interest is to acquire and maintain goods and services, circumstances separate them. make financial deals, show off the status that money Of the three plays, Greenberg's Eastern Standard is brings. In the older comedies, self-interest leads...

...- jected so-called Western values and courted Islamic reform. As a result, writers with a socialist-feminist consciousness have been over- shadowed by female exegetes who believe that Islam grants them greater status than Western “freedom” could...

... phraseology. Quwgcredenza with in-law, the novelist Nathaniel West collaborated on Even 76 Stephen, a satire on the American publishing biz that went plot in motion. The statue reminds him of a girl he loved and unproduced. SWEET Bye and Bye, a musical he wrote with lost: yet the Venus who...

...” of the Statue in New York harbor, as the collective ing through successive waves of im- 1of Liberty, or so the newsweeklies ritual of self-congratulation threatened migrants, Green Card suggests that re- tell us. The language-- of the to tarnish her newly-restored glory. cent refugees...

... the oppression institu- liberate any of its parts. Blacks could only be black, women only tionalized in the status quo. The streets and universities became women: identification with any extant category would confine one to stages of political activism, while the media provided the audience...