..., if smaller. Many of the above studies parse technical aspects of Stanislavsky s vexing system; some are system workbooks for the actor. Some authors explore cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, including early psychology and/or recent neuroscience, or trends in Russian literature, or Stanislavsky...

...André Lepecki In a talk originally presented at the 2015 Munich conference for the “Show Me a World” project, scholar André Lepecki, drawing from postcolonial theory and critical black studies, puts forth a critique of the colonial tendencies within curatorial practice and the art system. Lepecki...

...Paul McKinley The scenario: A Thursday night, very late. An online chat forum on Utopia and theater. As usual, there are many silent viewers lurking, invisibly watching the participants' comments scroll by, adding to the discussion here and there. The SysOp – or system operator, who acts...

... the “cesura between actor and character” to highlight the nature of the theatrical event for purposes that are largely social, drawing attention to systems of power, privilege, and violence. De Vos posits that unlike Brecht, however, Rau does not use these techniques to draw attention to the constructedness...

...Peter M. Boenisch; Lise Sofie Houe Peter M. Boenisch and Lise Sofie Houe survey the 2018–20 tenure of Swiss director Milo Rau as artistic director of ntg ent, the city theater of Ghent, Belgium. Contextualizing his role and actions within the European city theater system, the authors also examine...

... took it off the stage and into the streets. Hoffman’s guerilla assumption about the way meaning was generated. This documen- activity in the courtroom of the Chicago conspiracy trials hinged on tary sense assumed a stable system of representation. The actodac- the newly-perceived equivalence...

... cinema techniques, it asks viewers to consider feedback systems as conceptual frameworks. It also reveals, through a cybernetic lens, how neurodivergence can be viewed as a system of sense ­making: one differently attuned to temporal, psychic, and environmental embodied existence and holding key insights...

... of daily life passes so painfully that it’s “comic.” My plays are comedies. Building uphreaking down the (capitalist) System My own journey has been that of a comic hero (in many respects, the clownish character of Passemar in my play Par-dessus bord is a self-portrait): The hero...

... 5 morrison centuries. The cultural landscape of surveillance has been reshaped by (even as it has shaped) the continued expansion of digital information networks, the post-­9/11 political climate, social software systems such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, and the cultural...

... of natural resources and many of the world s people, particularly in the global South are responsible for the mess all of us are in. The theater industry, especially in the West, is a micro operating system that reflects the macro operating systems that are allied with individuals in places of power...

... of surveillance, wherein the centralized, optical, architectural system of panoptic discipline has given way to more dispersed, (in) dividualized, virtual, and algorithmic modes of control.1 Yet, an intellectual awareness of these technologies of surveillance is often con- nected...

... also took part in The system is unnecessary, the historical experience government rituals of various types, participated in anti- of the Art Theater is unnecessary, if we are to return Easter campaigns and in socialist competitions. Thus, for to that primordial soup of topical plays which defiled...

... play with, but also manipulate and assault, tiny brown puppets is deeply uncomfortable and implicates the performers, turning the audience into active witnesses urging the Rotterdam specta- tors to consider both their country s and their individual roles in the perpetuation of oppressive systems. Hotel...

... have their such thing as subjectivity or point of V tation in 1979 while in prison on disastrous consequences. Foustka’s view, no emotion or caprice. The system charges of subversion; and it’s in girlfriend, Vilma, walks out on him and functions on its own, like an efficient prison...

... into systems of experimental performance, and especially the ongoing validation of one or two Black artists into the hallways of notable folx. We thought about it as the pos- Theater 50:3 doi 10.1215/01610775-8651207 © 2020 by Thomas F. DeFrantz defrantz 64 Thomas F. DeFrantz s White Privilege, American...

... by in- tual or belief system, an abstract value, an opinion or prejudice - or corporating into its perspective the significance of spoken language as protonarrative, a kind of ultimate class fantasy about the ‘collective and what it names by posing a series of questions about the verbal ex- characters...

... Genesis. Bastiano's. This suggests two possibilities: One, the The Extension. The Old Reliable. It is virtual replacement of the bankrupt com- over ten years since Caffe Cino was mercial system by a more elastic, perhaps opened. It is now closed, and Joe Cino is more idealistic...

... Esslin The recent trend among American theaters towards the appoint• these theaters all have a subscription system which guarantees ment of literary managers or 'Dramaturgs' has, I believe, their 'Abonnenten' (subscribers) six to eight performances each awakened interest in this function...

... almost immediately after Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, probes the media systems, military-industrial mar- keting, racism, and quid-pro-quo rationalism that brought the American war machine into Iraq. Strictly speaking, there are no characters, only voices, in this play...