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Jan 01, 2008; Shank, Theodore ... A near miracle happened at dinner. We were invited to dinner by members of a foundation that has generously contributed to the support of TheatreForum. Suddenly we were asked if we would like to print TheatreForum in color. They would increase their grant to cover the additional printing costs ....
DIMITER GOTSCHEFF: THE FINE ART OF POLITICAL SPECTACLE
Jan 01, 2008; van den Berg, Klaus ... Among the current crop of innovative directors working in the contemporary German theatre, Dimiter Gotscheff stands out for several reasons. The Bulgarian-born director is one of several foreigners who have made their mark on the German theatre. Gotscheff, who is 64, has worked steadily since ...
DMITRY KRYMOV DESIGNER'S THEATRE
Jan 01, 2008; Freedman, John ... "We want to take this children's tale and puff it up, puff it up, puff it up into a Biblical tale." -Dmitry Krymov, before a rehearsal of the dramatization of Andrei Platonov's "The Cow." Moscow, 23 March 2007. Chekhov offered up the wisdom that if you display a gun in the first ...
Altruists and Torturers: An Introduction to The Unmentionables
Jan 01, 2008; Norris, Bruce ... I'm going to go out on a limb-stake out a wildly radical position: I think torture is bad. Really, really bad. I think that if we torture people (which by the way, doesn't work) we've instantly surrendered the moral high ground and lowered ourselves beneath the level of any possible enemy, ...
THE UNMENTIONABLES
Jan 01, 2008; Norris, Bruce ... THE TIME IS THE PRESENT The set is a large upstairs bedroom and adjoining spaces of Don and Nancy's villa in western equatorial Africa. The house was built in the late nineteenth century, but has been rather extensively renovated, and decorated in a style that connotes American good ...
TRANSMOGRIFYING BRUNO SCHULZ'S UNIVERSE: DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE'S REPUBLIC OF DREAMS
Jan 01, 2008; Shea, Megan ... It is a chilly night in November, though winter has yet to arrive full force to western Massachusetts. Audience members mill around outside on a farm while the smell of the surrounding greenery and the smoke from distant wood burning stoves permeates the air. The doors open, and the audience ...
AFTER THE FLOOD: RESURRECTING PRAGUE'S ARCHA THEATRE
Jan 01, 2008; Berchild, Christopher L ... In August of 2002, the Czech Republic was hit by a wave of devastating flooding, affecting what many reports estimate at over one-third of the country's population. Few areas were hit harder than the city center of the nations capital, Prague, which sustained massive damage when the Vltava River ...
MAKSYM KUROCHKIN: A WRITER FOR PARADOXICAL TIMES
Jan 01, 2008; Freedman, John ... (ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) In Vodka, Fucking, and Television Maksym Kurochkin sketches the rather scabrous portrait of a sarcastic, self-effacing, offensive, painfully sensitive and intensely proud writer whose "life and work," to use a standard phrase, have run ...
VODKA, FUCKING, AND TELEVISION
Jan 01, 2008; Kurochkin, Maksym ... HERO: I'm an old man. I'm 33 and according to science I haven't been able to learn anything new for the past eight years. After 25, people don't change. Everyone knows this, but the hero is the only one who accepts it. I, obviously, am the hero. Studying after the age of 25 is a waste of time ....
Discovering Delta: A Conversation with Bulgarian Director Petar Todorov
Jan 01, 2008; Orenstein, Ellen ... Sitting in the first row of the La MaMa Annex in New York City this past September-the audience seated on all four sides-I was shocked and then fully captivated by the shapes, sounds, and forms developed in the first few moments of Delta, a three-woman/character production co-created by ...