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Madrigal Holiday Feast (December 3-5, 1999), Lindenwood University

Student Theatre Programs

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Theodor Lebrun And Industrial Comedy Space In Nineteenth Century Berlin, William Grange

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The formation of the German Reich in 1871 was an occasion of unprecedented economic growth, accompanied by an equally conspicuous increase of both theatre construction and audience growth. One important aesthetic result, to paraphrase Hélène Cixous by way of Jacques Lacan, was "re-locating and un-making" the comic self in an alternative space of the Wilhelminian “Imaginary.” The victorious conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the collection of billions in war reparations from the vanquished French allowed the German economy between 1871 and 1890 to surpass that of France and soon thereafter that of Great Britain. The erstwhile Prussian …

Congress On Research In Dance Keynote Panel At 2000 Feet: A Celebration Of World Dance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19-25, 1999, Linda Caruso Haviland

Arts Program Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work

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The Poet King On Stage And Page, Samuel Smith

English Faculty Scholarship

Review of:

• Margaret Healy. William Shakespeare: Richard II. [Writers and their Work.] Plymouth: Northcote House Publishers Ltd., 1998. Pages 88. £6.99, paperback. Frontispiece. Bibliography. Index. 0-7463-0845-0

• Margaret Shewring. King Richard II. [Shakespeare in Performance.] Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pages 206. US$29.95, paperback. Appendices. Index. 0-7190-4626-2.

Anyone who teaches Shakespeare's Richard II will profit from careful readings of both Margaret Healy's and Margaret Shewring's study of this play. Both of these books can be read and digested rather quickly (Healy's almost in a single setting), but this does not mean readers should take them lightly. Both books are …

The Cutting Edge, August/September 1999, Vol. 10 Issue 3, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

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The Fight Master, Spring/Summer 1999, Vol. 22 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

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Faust In Barcelona: Catalonia's La Fura Dels Baus, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Total darkness. Garbled electronic sounds gradually build into a thundering roar, reminiscent of a plane veering down the runway. An orgasmic explosion fills the theatre with a big bang and a sudden flash of light. Following the chaos, what emerges in the darkness is the phantasmal image of two rotating human heads fixed at opposite ends of a single body. It is Faust, fastened to a revolving metallic "bed" evocative of Leonardo da Vinci's armillary sphere. The heads spin like two satellites in a never-ending cosmic orbit, creating a subtle allusion to the Faust/Mephistopheles duality that later in the performance …

The Cutting Edge, May/June 1999, Vol. 10 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

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The Children's Hour (April 8-10, 15-17, 1999), Lillian Hellmann

Student Theatre Programs

Program for The Children's Hour (April 8-10, 15-17, 1999).

The Cutting Edge, February/March 1999, Vol. 10 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (February 18-20, 25-27, 1999), Tom Stoppard

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (February 18-20, 25-27, 1999).

Passing Performances: Conference Opens Closet Of American Theatre, James Wilson

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Coincidentally, CLAGS's one-day symposium "Passing Performances: History, Evidence, Identification" occurred just as Hollywood's biggest film star publicly rejected the long-standing and wide-spread claims that he is gay. In a high-profile legal battle that concluded this past fall, Tom Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman settled their libel suit against a London tabloid, which asserted that their eight-year marriage is actually a ruse constructed to conceal Cruise's alleged homosexuality. The couple reportedly settled for more than $500,000, and they hoped to quash rumors once and for all that their marriage is a sham. Even in this "post-Ellen" era, the suit reflects …

"Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich", William Grange Prof. Dr.

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The idea performing comedy, and performing a lot of comedy, during one the most systematic reigns of terror the world has ever known may at first blush seem somewhat degraded. The perception of most people, especially in the English-speaking world, is that “German comedy” in the first place is an oxymoron. The fact is, however, that 42,000 productions were staged between 1933 and 1944 in the Third Reich, and the majority of them were comedies. The most frequently performed were plays by the now forgotten likes of August Hinrichs, Maximilian Böttcher, and Fritz Peter Buch, Jochen Huth, and Charlotte Rissmann. …

Review Of The 1999 Humana Festival Of New American Plays, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, David Wohl

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

A Review of the Plays Performed during the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

The Merging Of Two Fine Arts: Sound Design For Anton Chekhov's Play The Seagull, Chad Alan Clasemann

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

For the CSB/SJU Theater Department 1998 Fall production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, I was the sound designer. This included at its heart 7 original songs written specifically for this play. I also operated the sound board for the run of the show. After the production, I wrote a reflection paper which analyzes the process of my work as well as the songs in detail. Also included is a CD containing all of the original music.

“Indians,” “Braves,” And “Redskins”: A Performative Struggle For Control Of An Image, Jackson B. Miller

Faculty Publications

Native American groups across the country have been protesting the use of their symbols and heritage in sports arenas for over a decade. Yet, particularly in the realm of professional sports, these protests have not generated significant changes in attitudes and practices. This critical essay examines several Native American protest events to reveal the factors contributing to the failure of the reform movement and to suggest some strategies for rhetorically reformulating the campaign.

El Teatro Español En El Fesitval Iberoamericano De Teatro (Fit) De Cádiz: La Sociedad En Una Bañera, Polly J. Hodge

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

"Desde 1985 el Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro (FIT) tiene su cita anual en Cádiz y se enorgullece de ofrecer muestras de teatro de España y de muchos países latinoamericanos que ejemplifican lo último en las técnicas escénicas contemporáneas. Según el Boletín Informativo Municipal de 1996, el festival ofrece lo mejor de las Artes Escénicas de Espaiia e Iberoamérica y "apuesta por la calidad de los espectáculos frente a la cantidad de los mismos" (9). Lo que en general se destaca en estas obras es su abandono del aspecto verbal como el medio de comunicación principal. La imagen visual, gestos, ritmos …

The Fight Master, Fall/Winter 1999, Vol. 22 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

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"Un Agujero Sin Límites": La Mirada Fenomenológica De Josep M. Benet I Jornet, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Con un estilo libremente poético y, a veces, frenético, Richard Foreman, dramaturgo, director, y figura predilecta del mundo del teatro experimental neoyorquino, intentó en 1972 trazar del modo siguiente los puntales teóricos de su llamado "Teatro Ontológico - Histórico"

I want to be seized by the elusive, unexpected alivenesss of the moment.

Surprise at the center: not the surprise of the least-expected…because that (Least-expected) is a reaction that “places” it and makes it no longer elusive. But

surprised by

a freshness

of moment that eludes

constantly refreshes. You go toward it

and can’t seize it? You don’t go toward it….. …

Agustín Gómez-Arcos En El Ocaso Del Exilio: Los Primeros Años Parisinos, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Agustín Gómez-Arcos llego a Francia en 1968, y sus primeros años de residencia en Paris representan un intervalo de transición con respecto a su trayectoria como escritor. Es una época de continuidad, tanto como de ruptura, en la cual las arduas memorias de un pasado español se funden con nuevos comienzos. Mientras que los temas que marcaron sus obras anteriores -la política, la religión, el erotismo y la lengua siguen habitando su escritura exílica, a la vez, su salida de España lógicamente induce una serie de transformaciones temáticas y estilísticas que más adelante pasaran a su obra novelística. En el …

Performance Theory: «Desde Lo Político A Lo Espectacular: El Caso De Els Joglars», Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Durante las últimas décadas, en Estados Unidos, España y otras partes del mundo, una de las cuestiones que ha suscitado un mayor grado de reflexión en el mundo teatral, por parte de los artistas tanto como de los teóricos, es la interrogación crítica y radical sobre la relación entre texto dramático y representación. La palabra escrita, tradicionalmente proveniente del dramaturgo e históricamente considerada el locus de autoridad en el teatro, empezó a perder su potencia prescriptiva con respecto al montaje artístico o «puesta en escena». Incluso, en algunas ocasiones, el espectáculo teatral alcanzó un nivel de independencia según el cual …

Un Nen A L'Escala, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

El personatge principal d'El criptograma de David Mamet és John, un nen de deu anys hipercansat i d'ulls lleganyosos, intelligent i tafaner, a qui el seu permanent insomni ha deixat en un curiós estat de fantasia, en algun lloc entre el desvetllament i la vigília inconscient. El seu gest més compulsiu dins l'espai escènic consisteix en un constant viatge amunt i avall d'una escala amenaçadora que domina el camp de visió dels espectadors. L'escala és potser l'únic objecte estable sobre l'escenari i actua com un lloc de transició i un pont espaciotemporal entre el món innocent del nen (a dalt) …

A Fragment From Act Ii Of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Linda B. Fairtile

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This manuscript transmits ten measures from the so-called "Sextet" in the opera's second act, corresponding to pages 207 (measure 2) through 210 (measure 1) of the current published orchestral score. The passage forms part of the middle section of a tripartite structure that begins and ends with the renowned "Musetta's Waltz" ("Quando m'en vo"). At this point in the plot, the inhabitants of Paris's Latin Quarter, gathering to celebrate Christmas Eve at the Cafe Momus, witness the spectacle of Musetta's successful attempt to win back her lover. The section as a whole presented a problem for Puccini's librettists, who had …

The "Confessing Animal" On Stage: Authenticity, Asceticism, And The Constant "Inconstancie" Of Elizabethan Character, Peter Iver Kaufman

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

For persons persuaded by the rhetoric of sixteenth-century religious reformers, authenticity was a complex matter of access to the reality of divinity. George Levin's paper on empiricist "habits of mind" seems a strange place to start elaborating on that observation, for such "habits" look to be worlds apart from what I study, the sixteenth-century Calvinist adaptations of patristic and medieval ascetic spirituality. Yet Levin maintains that he has identified empiricism's near-ascetic techniques. "To know nature," he claims, "one must make it alien ... and deny one's own desire." If he is correct about "the programmatically self-alienating" character of "the positivist …

Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles And Folk Dance In "The Field", Anthony Shay

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

In this introductory essay I put forth several concepts and elements that can be profitably examined before any meaningful analysis of these ensembles and their choreographic output can be properly addressed. These include issues of authenticity and representation, as well as the variety of social and technical restrictions and limitations—political, financial, artistic—faced by the artistic directors of these companies. Thus, the main intent of this essay is to establish a theoretical and methodological model for the study of professional and semi-professional state folk dance ensembles as well as the numerous amateur performing and exhibition groups that emulate the state dance …