..., NOT A WRITER"- ACTING AND IAUTHORSHIP IN BULGAKOV'S WORKS SUSAN LARSEN n a letter dated April 13, 1933, Mikhail Bulgakov one-act plays in which the young Bulgakov also performed...

...Marc Robinson Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Four Writers Marc Robinson In his early poem “Clepsydra,” John Ashbery writes of “a moment that gave not only itself, but 31 also the means of keeping it.” The line points to the source...

..., whose plays are currently deflning the theater repertoire in our country. It seems as if young writers today are having a difficult time finding a common language with the country's older playwrights (Viktor Rozov, Alexandr Shtein, Afanasy Salinsky) and with the middle generation (Alexandr Gelman...

... role in both, as chief writer on Steeltown, and as an important contributor to script revisions on 1985. Holden first began working with the Mime Troup in 1967 when her adaptation of Goldoni's L'amante militaire was performed over fifty times in the parks of San Francisco, and she was one...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky Miriam Felton-Dansky offers an introduction to the writer Sylvan Oswald and proposes that his work High Winds expands the boundaries of dramatic art by reshaping the form and the architectonics of trans storytelling. According to Felton-Dansky, “Changing the format...

...Kathleen Cioffi Kathleen Cioffi provides an overview of the ambitious Paderewski Musical Project, examining the collision of American and Polish dramaturgies across three pieces— 3 Paderewskis, Virtuoso , and Memory Laws . All three were part of a 2017 competition encouraging American writers...

..., designed to foster new writing. Particular attention is paid to writers Gianina Carbinariu and Stefan Peca. © 2009 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, directed by Tea Alagic, Women’s Project, New York, 2008. Photo: Carol Rosegg Alina Nelega...

... making, and specifically, since I am a writer, how they help and hinder our writing. They are as natural to life as breathing and, like the breath, deserve some attention. The Great Tradition is the tradition of the past, those millions of great writers and storysmiths all over the world...

..., arranger, lished writers, but we try to do plays by people who have had only and composer who just cannot get rid of the songs in his head all com• one play or two or three. We commission a number each year, and bined, under Donohue's direction, to energize the small-scale perfor• then the space...

... on the means of produc- tion,taking its cues not from playwrights but from performers & di- rectors & environmentalists. This avant-garde seeks out the roots of drama in the actor's body. The center of theatre-for the Groups-is not the writer, but somewhere between the genitals and the navel...

... to of autobiographical novels; in it che writer and find the plays of Peter Handke more congenial his subject are presented with self-conscious cir- to the practices of our stage, and even nicer for cumvention; in short, it immediately strikes one us to fix the blame for this infelicity on the as a work...

... an in- dividual yet prominent force in the modern English theater; a renegade writer with a fiercely personal comic vision of man “. . .adrift in a world without a purpose. . .” struggling along as if there were one. Barnes endures, endeavoring to keep the playwriting world honest...

... to penetrate the harness of my Americanized persona that was to pro- after the catastrophe, created by a writer, who, like Walter tect me from the eerie silence of a Viennese postwar childhood, from Benjamin’s Angel of History is blown into the future while looking a language which, in my mind, had...

... writer whose fascinating period of Gorky’s intense disillusionvent article in this issue criticizes Gorky’s blanket with Stalin and his sense of the betrayal condemnation of the bourgeoisie, may be of the entire revolution. Gorky was at times taking Gorky too literally...

..., the reviews currency, they need to be moving around in the community, they would have been the same. One reviewer remarked that not only ought not to be hoarded. Because if there is any insight in these weren’t we any good now, we were never any good.” words, the writer has an obligation...

... not GDR was expressed again last sum- East German government to dissolve number as many exiled writers as the mer, through his performance in an its people after they allegedly "for- Chinese; our excuse must be that our East Berlin production of Danton's feited the confidence of the govern...

... impose a unifying theme on an array published only three times a year, of such diverse writers, but as articles and have a much longer “lead time” filtered in they clustered together than weekly or monthly...

...Aleksey Remizov; Roberta Reeder, translated by Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 Aleksey Remizov (1877-1 957), was a very Gorky: different writer than Gorky. Remizov...

.... Politically, Gorky was “out of shape,” he kept changing his opinions. Lenin told him once, “You’re a good writer but politically you’re a very...

... in drama; this is known as artistic fer- Such a structure naturally had to decay ment. and die, and as the larger social structure changed, it naturally did so: there is to- Young writers began finding their way to day no serious theatre whatever on New York in increasing numbers...