.... chelfitsch’sThe Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise: Youth Is Not the Only Thing That’s Sonic, Kanagawa Arts Theater, Tokyo, 2011. Photo: Kikuko Usuyama Toshiki Okada Translated from Japanese by Aya Ogawa The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise Youth Is Not the Only Thing That’s Sonic 1...

... Things that Have to Do with Us A Playwright’s Notes on the Struggle for New Romanian Plays Until 2002, the Romanian stage had been rather dull, except for the first three or four years after 1989, when the Ceauşescu regime fell. Several directors who had been living in the West (among them...

... ibl e Things A Conversation on Between Two Knees by the 1491s Migizi Pensoneau (coplaywright), Bobby Wilson (cop­ l ay w r ig ht), Er ic Ting (dir ector), Shyla Lefner (actor), Justin Jud Gauthier (actor), Ty Defoe (choreographer), R. Réal Vargas Alanis (associate director), and Julie Felise Dubiner...

... proposes decolonized curation as the imaginative affirmation of a wholly new collective sociability and finds a model for these relations in the notoriously “difficult to curate” art of Lygia Clark. As “wild things,” rather than objects of art, the works of Clark escape the colonized art system, offend...

... as a mediator – has made some introductory remarks to get the discussion rolling, but things have been pretty quiet, until… Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 ...

... the focus was to be on Hirsch's own adaptation of the classic Yiddish play The Dybbuk, and the students would find themselves called to a consideration of the spiritual side of human life. For this first two-hour session John Hirsch talked about his life in art; it was one of the things he did best. What...

... or four hun- the opposite. It’s simply that there aren’t any dred. You didn’t realize there were that many of external, metaphysical systems determining them, but there are. So, it took me a long time these things...

...• tinguished manner. Miller: The last thing we want is a mandarin conservatory theatre which simply repro• duces ancient moth-hole productions, but I can't understand what "ritual theatre" means. Improvised and superimposed rituals in the theatre? Student: It's not the ritual itself...

...: were topical, he had actors addressing the audience here the star attraction is the Haunted Fuselage, a sort of directly, and things occasionally got out of control. fun house ride over the course of which you encounter See, and everybody thinks it was just Gary Shandling. I demonic...

... for clarity and concision. Br a nden Jacobs-­Jenk ins About three years ago, Jane came to visit me in my studio upstairs, and we began a conversation about some interesting things we thought were happening in American theater design. We were noticing the emergence of certain themes and patterns in our...

...  Could you describe the evolution of formance design to talk about the same thing. the Prague Quadrennial under your leadership? Scenography is an old word for a simple What changes did you make to the format, and thing — stage design — that we use in East- what themes did you engage? Were...

... it throw things out and rewrite, and not to treat radiates with complexity. I think of the larger the text as a sacred thing. structural ideas growing like crystals. A simple example from a play I wrote a long time ago, GARRETT What about those...

... of if they want to conceive, and men won’t be fairness will be increased, and the churches needed at all. will play a bigger and bigger part in running things, and people will spend all their spare r: Or, or there won’t be very many men...

..., to encourage people to come not just for an artistic experience but to feel good. So, as well as doing the refined, sharp, exploratory work in the experimental area itself-new material, new ways of doing old material-it's important to do things which have a festive nature, outdoor things, things which...

...- thing together. This was when I had to direct Middleton and tiWS: Rowley's The Changeling in Zurich, something which inter- How did you two come together, and what has been the ested both of us from our respective standpoints. basis...

... and sung Contest),A Conversation with Georgia visible” somehow. I wrote poetry for country western music since I was O’Keefe, Tales of the Lost Formicans about five years and I was just eleven, so I had this performing thing (produced at the 1989 Humana beginning to get...

... of Drama. Katherine Ling: They're not great as actors. That's not their strong point. Their strong point is they're a living thing, a body theatre. It's a seduction theatre. And if they don't go with that all the way, then they cannot possibly be convincing. I've seen them looking fake...

... career in 1979, a way, it was a very personal thing — part of Anna Viebrock has emerged as one of Europe’s my family comes from Hungary, and this was most original and transformative stage artists, behind the iron curtain so I thought I would working in theater, opera, and other performance never...

.... Wrong. Wrong. Then, suddenly, someone shouts his answer from the back. Others join him. They all shout at once. It becomes a loud and fast thing. The teacher speaks rapidly trying to reply to each; Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Damn it! You're wrong...