Recently added articles from TriQuarterly:
Art, and the Art of Teaching.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... What do you read, my Lord?--Words, words, words ...IOf course a great artist can't be taught to be a great artist. Why then do we pore so eagerly over their biographies and autobiographical writing, the endless collections of letters (mostly un-illuminating), the ...
Adapting "Kafka on the Shore".(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... 1.For many years I taught in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University where there has been a long tradition of studying literary texts through performance. Fiction was my special interest as a student and teacher. Storytelling, the performance of fiction, ...
A Note on Frank Galati's "Kafka on the Shore" and Steppenwolf Theatre's New Play Initiative.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Steppenwolf Theatre Company launched its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with the world premiere of Kafka on the Shore, based on the book by Haruki Murakami, adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati. The production, featuring ensemble members ...
Adapting Proust: A Moment in the Red Room.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... I have spent most of my time in the theater adapting old texts derived from even more ancient oral tales, texts such as The Odyssey, The Book of One Thousand Nights and One Nights, Jason and the Argonauts, the Chinese epic The Journey to the West, and various myths and fairy tales. ...
Into the Abyss: Adapting "Madame Bovary".(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Part of the price Flaubert paid for celebrity was a string of requests from Paris theaters "eager to stage Madame Bovary" and cash in on the novelist's succes de scandale. Biographer Geoffrey Wall reports that one theater merely wanted to use the title, while retaining the freedom to devise ...