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To the Reader
Oct 01, 2008; ... Our annual Fall issue foregrounds, as usual, spring and summer theatre festivals throughout Western Europe, with reports from the Berlin Theatertreffen and the festivals in Avignon, Recklinhausen, Barcelona, and Oslo. Among other reports we are pleased to offer information as usual, from Barry ...
"Once upon a time in America..."
Oct 01, 2008; ... "Once upon a time in America ..." " ...a dream of theatre" was the motto chosen for this year's six-week Recklinghausen theatre festival. Indeed, the festival was dedicated almost exclusively to the continent of North America and promised its authence a broad panorama of twentieth-century ...
The 2008 Berlin Theatertreffen
Oct 01, 2008; ... The 2008 Berlin Theatertreffen The Tempest Each spring a jury selects ten outstanding productions from German-speaking Europe to be presented in the May Theatertreffen in Berlin. There were several rather surprising choices in the 2008 selection, but the majority of the names ...
Avignon 2008: Children, Babies and Even Some Dogs
Oct 01, 2008; ... Avignon 2008: Children, Babies and Even Some Dogs The sixty-second Avignon Festival took place from 4 to 26 July. It was a banner year with three new productions by the provocative avantgarde Italian theatre director Rameo Castellucci, the co-artistic associate with Valérie Dréville of ...
Avignon OFF 2008-The Noise of People Around
Oct 01, 2008; ... Like the metaphor of theatre itself, actors and the public mixed once more in the annual celebration within the ramparts of this magical papal city. The gap is growing between the official IN with fifty offerings and the ever proliferating OFF: 957 shows. Foreign plays are never in the original ...
Grec 2008: Between the Local and Global
Oct 01, 2008; ... There's been a fair bit of soul-searching in the Catalan press about the role of the Grec this summer. Whether it's to do with a lackluster opening event (Nigel Lowery and Amir Hosseinpour version of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale) or suffocating temperatures that had critics craving an autumn ...
The 2008 Ibsen Stage Festival: Oslo, Norway
Oct 01, 2008; ... It was a surreal image. British theatre director Peter Brook-who revolutionized twentieth-century theatre with his notion of "the empty space" - was onstage at Oslo's Nationaltheatret, accepting the first International Ibsen Award from none other than Tancred Ibsen, the playwright's grandson ....
Antonio Gala: The Art of Words
Oct 01, 2008; ... Since the success in 1963 of his ground-breaking first play, Los verdes campos del edén (The Green Fields of Eden, translated by Patricia W. O'Connor), Antonio Gala has figured prominently among Spain's most admired dramatists. Despite his twenty-two stage productions, he does not consider ...
Paris Theatre, Summer 2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... Paris Theatre, Summer 2008 The 2007-08 Paris theatre season is more or less over by the end of June when most of the subsidized houses close for two months. Among the final productions of the season, two much anticipated productions proved to be disappointing. Michel Vinaver has been an ...
Vinaver's Par-dessus bord at the Théâtre de la Colline
Oct 01, 2008; ... Vinaver's Par-dessus bord at the Théâtre de la Colline Christian Schiareni's staging of Par-dessus bord (Overboard) by Michel Vinaver, offered at the Théâtre de la Colline in ijaris in May and June of 2008, was remarkable for several reasons. The play recounts the changing fortunes of a ...
A Conversation with Liv Ullmann
Oct 01, 2008; ... On 31 August 200|8, Henrik Ibsen's grandson, Tancred Ibsen, officia ly presented the newly-created International Ibsen Award to the legendary Peer British theatre director Brook on the mainstage of Norway's Nationaltheatret in downtown Oslo, while a packed house of spectators rose to their feet ...
A Conversation with Eirik Stubø
Oct 01, 2008; ... In late August, Norway's National Theatre opened its bi-annual (Nationaltheatret) in Oslo a new production of Ibsen Stage Festival with Ibsen's dark classic Rosmersholm, directed by Eirik Stubo, whose successful ani somewhat controversial eight-year tenure as Artistic Director will expire at the ...
Vie du grand dom Quichotte et du gros Sancho Pança
Oct 01, 2008; ... Vie du grand dom Quichotte et du gros Sancho Pança "This is a histbric event," claims Emile Valantin of Vie du grand dom Quichotte et du gros Sancho Panca, the production he designed in collaboration with Éric Ruf] for the 2007-2008 season at the Comédie-Française. The introduction of a ...
An American in London: Spring 2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... An American in London: Spring 2008 What are American academics to do in London during spring break? They go see two theatrical offerings written by Americans: one, a musical adaptation of an iconic American novel and film; the other, an almost unknown play by a major American female ...
The Volkstheater Rostock Enters a New Age
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Volkstheater Rostock Enters a New Age Situated in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the northern coast of the former GDR, the Volkstheater Rostock has been a major state theatre company in Germany for over five decades. Once a leading state theatre of East Germany, the ...
Puccini and Aeschylus in Sicily, May 2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... Puccini and Aeschylus in Sicily, May 2008 In late May 2008, I traveled to Giardini Naxos on the east coast of Sicily to give a paper on the Neapolitan playwright and actor Raffaele Viviani (1888-1950), at a conference organized jointly by the American Association of Italian Studies ...
Paris Theatre, January-April 2008
Apr 01, 2008; ... Paris Theatre, January-April 2008 Classic Plays Christopher Marlowe's Edward II is a strikingly modern play. It deals openly with homosexuality and paints a bleak portrait of political maneuvering. Anne-Laure Liégeois has directed an excellent production of the play for the ...
Spring in Berlin
Apr 01, 2008; ... For Berlin theatregoers, the month of May is dominated by the annual Theatertreffen, but there are always a number of attractive other offerings for those who wish to fill in nights between the festival performances. Some of these in fact are Berlin productions that were nominated for the ...
Johann Kresnik's The Ring in Bonn
Apr 01, 2008; ... Johann Kresnik's The Ring in Bonn Johann Kresnik has been internationally active as a choreographer and director since 1967. After working in Bremen, Heidelberg, and at the Volksbühne in Berlin, he and his ensemble were engaged at the opera in Bonn. Der Ring is Kresnik and his dancers's ...
Wallenstein
Apr 01, 2008; ... Wallenstein Rarely has a new production of an old play attracted the kind of international attention as did the premiere of Wallenstein: ein dramatisches Gedicht (Wallenstein: a dramatic poem, usually translated as The Wallenstein Trilogy) by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Peter Stein ...