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1999 Cave Run Storytelling Festival Poster, Cave Run Storytelling Festival Committee (Morehead, Ky.), Morehead Tourism Commission (Morehead, Ky.)

Cave Run Storytelling Festival Posters

Promotional development poster for the Cave Run Storytelling Festival held on September 24 to September 25, 1999. Those performing included: Jackson Gillman, Barbara McBride-Smith, Bob Shimer, Frank Jones, Bill Watson and The Kentucky Family Folk Theater.

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 …

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.

"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….. …

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) …

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 …

Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

No abstract provided.

Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich, William Grange

William Grange

JOSEPH GOEBBELS and ALFRED ROSENBERG identified Jewish playwrights, especially those who wrote comedy, as “agents of the threatening anti-Western invasion. . . . With the help of nigger Americanism, Jews from the East brought hither by the Mongolian sources of Bolshevism” had polluted an ethnically pure German theatre. Goebbels attacked plays by Franz Arnold (1878-1960), Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) Julius Berstl (1893-1975) Bruno Frank (1887-1945), Carl Zuckmayer (1898-1977) and others of deploying “hyper-modern, bolshevistic, mollusk-like and neurasthenic aesthetics” on German audiences. Purging the German theatre of comic plays by Jews and other creators of “abusive and undesirable literature,” Goebbels, Rosenberg, and …

Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.

Edward Bond’S ‘Irresponsibly Optimistic’ Preface To Saved, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.

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

David Wohl

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