...Jonathan Kalb Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 THEATERJN·cAM13RIDGE Whose Text Is It Anyway? The Balcony at A.R.T...

... in the Western world, all we have left of them are some texts. After only one hundred years of film, we have hundreds of fine film productions at our disposal. Everyone who works in the theater today, like everyone in the audience, is steeped in film experience of one kind or another and, in good part...

...Rustom Bharucha Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 “MEMOIRS OF AFRICA” - PERFORMANCE/TEXT/POLlTlCS RUSTOM BHARUCHA he following are extracts from The Theater...

...Jonathan Kalb © 2005 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2005 kalb Jonathan Kalb Gulliver’s Choice Note on the Text Gulliver’s Choice is a counterplay to Heiner Müller’s Mauser (1970), which is itself a counterplay to Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken (1930...

...Nicola Gunn Copyright © 2019 Nicola Gunn 2019 21 Nicola Gunn In Spite of Myself A Performance Text Theater 49:3 doi 10.1215/01610775-7855060 © 2019 by Nicola Gunn Nicola Gunn s In Spite of Myself, Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 2013. Photo: Sarah Walker Note This script...

...John Rouse Copyright © THEATER 1984 1984 THEATER IN BERLIN Robert Wilson, Texts and History: CIVIL wars, German Part John Rouse On March 28, 1984 the Olympic Arts events...

... theatrical texts — ­texts written exclusively for and about a theater that is, for the author, a technology and instrument for the world to exist as a place for one’s own personal phenomenon to discover itself within the most complex of known systems of time and space — ­that modern civilizations have...

...Frank W. Wadsworth Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 THOSE SACRED TEXTS AGAIN A Comment on Robert Brustein's "No More Masterpieces" by Frank W. Wadsworth Among the varied pleasures of yalehheatre's exciting first number, the sweet reasonableness of Robert Brustein's...

..., teacher, and director, she has taken on the role of interviewer as well, so she could assess the process from every angle and make it complete. Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 THE RAP ON EURIPIDES: CREATING NEW TEXTS...

... coup de théâtre. Zur Sozialpsychologie des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels bei Diderot”. In Lektüren und Lektionen. Verusche über Literatur, Literaturtheorie un Literatursoziologie . Frankfurt a.M: Suhrkamp, 1973 . Theatrical Texts and Social Context...

... of three years. Each production will be rooted in the indigenous cultural context of the individual city; it will be performed by an actress belonging to the city, who will shape Kroetz's text according to her own needs and tensions, her own sense of history. Totally wordless, Kroetz's monodrama focuses...

...Jean Graham-Jones This introduction to the author’s translation of Rafael Spregelburd’s play situates both text and production within the Argentine artist’s oeuvre and poetics and analyzes them as critiques of contemporary globalized society. The article argues that Spam proposes language as a tool...

...Michael Thalheimer In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia Galotti...

...Cristina Modreanu Romanian theater scholar Cristina Modreanu discusses the primary model of dramaturgy, classical texts presented in a realistic style, has evolved after 1989 in Romania to accommodate new visual styles of avant-garde directors. Modreanu describes directors such as Mihail Maniutiu...

...Steve Moore; Carlos Treviño In this interview, theater scholar Jonathan Kalb and acclaimed German director Michael Thalheimer discuss Thalheimer's radically stripped-down approach to canonical dramatic texts, with reference to several recent productions, including Liliom , The Oresteia , Emilia...

...Jacob Gallagher-Ross Jacob Gallagher-Ross introduces the text of Big Art Group's SOS , a piece recently staged at the Kitchen in New York City. He analyzes and situates the company's mediatized aesthetic within the context of contemporary consumer culture and the economic implosion of 2008. ©...

... 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...