... as Historical Witnesses i. With their mnemonic bodies, cats are live archives of lost histories that bring forth the pasts they share with us. As soon as a cat crosses into the field of perception, we cannot help but trace it. As media, cats at once call for representational and material inquiry. Cats...

... the theatrical motif to examine three separate issues. The first concerns Stalin's chameleon-like behavior towards all who came into contact with him. He goes on to describe the masterful staging of the Moscow Purge Trials during which virtually all the key actors - the defendants, witnesses, prosecutor, judge...

..., the Tragedia Endogonidia, launched in 2002 and now completed and touring the world, investigates the possibility of staging a contemporary tragedy, as well as considering how one would watch or wit- ness such a performance. The eleven episodes that constitute the cycle were originally performed in ten...

... of interest in the classical equation is not the classical artgact or artist but the contemporary witness - he or she who sees an object as ”classicd”What are his or her motives for this act of witnessing? The Buddy Holly case makes clear that, as in most cases, there is more than a little self...

... interpretation, at the Saltlage.ret Theater, written during the war, saw quite the seventies. theater, in March of 1979. Herman, who left plainly the key opposition in Hamlet: Wit- Poland in 1968, had staged the world premiere tenberg and Elsinore. These events show...

...), as if the whole world were poised to hear every mean- spirited little pseudophilosophical pearl he lets fly. Skinny, burned-out Warren is a dim- witted klutz who, in the face of Dennis’s bullying, tells dud jokes and wears the perma- nent scowl of someone just smart enough to understand there’s a lot...

.... This is the PRESIDING PERSONS OF THE PLAY: MAGISTRATE. Four other men, WITNESSES presumably, sit next to the wall. In the shad- ARMOUR WREN, a Selma planter, WILLIAMS~N’S neighbor ows beyond, another...

.... The eight actors change roles and por- tray prosecutors, defendants, judges and witnesses, sporting garish make-up and A scene from Thomas Schulte...

... jaksch  On your website, your company ongoing performance project I-­Witness Central describes I-­Witness Central City as a story-­ City, the New Orleans – based theater ensemble mapping project that seeks to open up personal Mondo Bizarro uses digital storytelling and story stories to a wider...

... is an three ways: either as if he were a tiresomely quotable elocutionary acknowledged influence on Hodth, Durrenmatt, and Handke. wit, a mindless low comedian, or a doctrinaire political reformer. Now, nearly 120 years after his death, Nestroy has been revived He is none of these exclusively...

... 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...

... satirized Moscow society of the early 19th The unstable world of the artist, in which his or her century. Woe From Wit reflected a vast undercurrent of identity is constantly subject to political and economic political and social disillusionment that preceded...

... of manners focuses on the overdressed in a vain attempt to be a la mode, or the man narrow, self-involved world of leisured courtiers in or woman who pretended to more wit than they actually late 17th century London. The comedies of Oscar Wilde possessed - left themselves open to ridicule...

... just a witness. moments in it. Here comes the nightlife, the Stars of New I can tell you no truer thing about myself than York...

... of witnesses about the Nor is White’s tape actually played; it is monologue is followed by the anguished two murders, Mann intercuts relevant dramatized, and edited (the only time, with testimony of White’s wife. Strongly reminis- fragments of Schmidt’s opening remarks and one brief exception, Mann...

... of global conditions based on intolerable suffering? Where does Western compassion end and begin? Can the actor or spectator become a witness to such violent histories and not merely depict them, represent them, or consume them? And what responsibilities does that altered mode of witnessing imply? Although...

... center my role of being a witness to my uncle Joseph Naytowhow sharing a Nehiyew Sky Woman story that was given to him by Elder Yvonne Chamakese, from Pelican Lake which is located two hours from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This writing highlights Indigenous artistic interpretations of the fall...

... of people frozen everywhere. . . . I can’t move my cart.”1 But, after precisely five minutes, the statues reanimated and went their way, fad- ing back into the flow of traffic. The witnesses broke into applause. They had no idea what had happened, and they seemed to like it. One bystander...

..., Meuse et Moselle, strategies that provide opportunities for being seen and gathering witnesses to one’s France, 1917. Photo: worth, vitality, and being: “When both the outside and the inner world deprive us of Lt. de Preissac. reflective evidence...

... Edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019 Live art, while not sui generis in South Africa, has risen to visibility only recently and with a perceived lack of precedence. With no canon, there can be no preciousness about origins or legacies. Because live art did...