.... Jonathan Shandell Robbie McCauley, Anna Deavere Smith, and Suzan-Lori Parks are three of the The Zoo Story and the most talented, important figures in contempo- Whole Story rary African American...

...Jean-Marie Patte Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 On Story Theatre Reflections and Reveries in a Train Jean-Marie Patte (In Volume 3, Number 2 of yalehheatre we examined the rise of Story Theeta in Amertca. We asked Jean-Marie Pam, a Fmch =tor and dimctor...

...Michael Annand Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 Story Theatre: Impressions by Michael Annand If we are to have a theatre - at Yale as everywhere else in America - we must take everything that lies behind us, and reconceive it in our own terms...

...A. J. Antoon Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 An Interview with Myself about Story Theatre by A. J. Antoon Interviewer: Can you define Story Antoon: I guess so. Theatre in a few words? Interviewer: Simple...

...Joel Lee © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Apna Theatre, Kanpur, 2006. Photo: Joel Lee Joel Lee “It’s the Story of Our Own Village” A Journey in Indian Street Theater I was thirteen hours late to my first performance by a street theater troupe. Two...

...Dario Fo; Ron Jenkins, translated by Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 The Story of the Tiger wasflrstper- The street performer had updated an why. You remember what it was like. formed by Dario Fo in Milan, Italy, ancient tiger legend to satirize the Com- Peter Jennings reporting...

...Barbara Mackay Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 Story Theatre at Yale by Barbara Mackay Story Theatre is not a new phenomenon. It has existed in various forms - reli- gious ritual, dance, pantomime, dumbshow - throughout history, whenever a shared collection of beliefs...

...Judith G. Miller Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Peter Brook’s Mahabharata (The Story of Mankind) Judith G. Miller improvisations from the mother text...

...Caridad Svich © 2021 by Caridad Svich. All rights reserved 2021 Caridad Svich s Theatre: a love story, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 2021. Video still. Courtesy of Know Theatre Caridad Svich Theat r e: a l ov e story When there s little time left, what world can we create? What...

...Victoria C. Ekwueme Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 Story Theatre In Africa: An Essay In Description. by Victoria C. Ekwueme When Paul Sills realized his conception of Story Theatre at the Yale Repertory Theatre in the 1968 production of Grimm's Fairy Tales, American...

... high? Hmmm? 18 THE RATS DOWN THE WALLS STORY Those art historians! looking at pictures with the lights off Really! Every discipline is caught up in its own importance to itself. Every system ofthinking is concerned with doing its business...

...Caridad Svich © 2021 by Caridad Svich 2021 Rehearsal for Caridad Svich s Theatre: a love story, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 2021. Photo: Ryan Lewis Caridad Svich On Unmaking Theat er in Theatr e: a l ov e story All plays written in the last fifty years are climate change plays...

...-­Rubin Global Queer Stories on the American Stage The Criminal Queerness Festival As of today, sixty-­four countries around the world criminalize lgbtq+ people, and by extension censor queer artists. As the founder of National Queer Theater and the Criminal Queerness Festival, I have witnessed firsthand...

... of Expression under Pinochet Four Theater Stories Introduction From 1973 to 1990, Chile was governed by a military dictatorship, which had overthrown the elected government of Salvador Allende Gossens three years into his six-year...

...Scott Saul © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 saul Scott Saul Presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Songs and Stories from Mysteries...

...Paul Sills Copyright © Theater 1998 1998 PAULSILLS TELLINGSTORIES A story must be told in such a way that it helps. A rabbi said: “My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher, the holy Baal...

..., for example, as employed the form (as did Brecht and Lorca) as an episode wayang beber. Medieval European deacons told Bible in larger shows focused on different performance tech- stories with exsultet rolls which were unwound over the top niques. In The Same Boat, an outdoor travelling piece...

... Family Stories: Belgrade Originally titled Porodicne Price Characters All the characters in this play are children. But they age...

...John Rouse Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 STRUCTURING STORIES: IROBERT WILSON’S ALCESTIS JOHN ROUSE Robert Wilson’s productions have story. And he uses his own...

...). at Queens College, C.U.N.Y. His trans- Gorky‘s human face (and Sholokhov’s too, lation of Vladimir Maramzin’s novella, by the way) is plainly visible. When I was still The Story of the Marriage of Ivan Petro- a schoolboy, I read his article, “Whose Side vich will appear...