Ο Μαρκ Ρέιβενχιλ είναι ένας συγγραφέας που μπορεί
να μη μασάει τα λόγια του, μπορεί να σοκάρει με τις αμοραλιστικές του απόψεις,
όμως το Σύστημα έχει δείξει ότι ξέρει πολύ καλά να απορροφά τους όποιους
επιφανειακούς κραδασμούς προκαλούν οι αιρετικές του θέσεις....
Charles Mee's Intertextual and Intercultural Inscriptions: The Suppliants Vs Big Love*
Life [... ] is an experience we share with others
Charles Mee, Big Love
I: Despite (or because of) the political, technological and other radical changes in our postmodern times, theatre artists from all over the world still turn to the Greek classics,...
The Idea of Mediation in Handke's Kaspar
I: How is the self to be defined? How does it interact with the world? These questions certainly "bear no gifts to Athens." They have been central to world drama since the time of Aeschylus. Starting with the hypothesis that characters are coherent subjects, psychologically...
Re-membered pain in John Jesurun’s Philoktetes
What I cannot see, I can touch.
What I cannot touch, I can see.
What I cannot see, I can imagine.
What I can imagine is mine to keep. What I cannot imagine is not mine
John Jesurun, Philoktetes
Even in the midst of other people, everybody's locked inside...
Heterotopias of Blackness: The (Im)possibilities of the (Black) Female Self
Each day I wonder with what or with whom can I co-exist in a true union.
Adrienne Kennedy, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White.
It is always right
to name the place you move in.
to name...these people now.
wherever you are
they...
Power Games in Shepard's Prison-House of Language: A Lie of the Mind
Sam Shepard is undoubtedly the most prolific and discussed playwright to appear in the American theatre since Edward Albee. Young as he is, Shepard has proven all these twenty five years that he is a perceptive and investigative mind, capable of translating his “American experience” into effective drama. This is not to say, however, that there...
The Revival of Ancient Greek Drama and the Rage of Greek Critics
I: "I do not think there is any other country in the world," Thodoros Kritikos, the university professor and drama reviewer, has recently pointed out, " that honors the classics with so many and also such miserable productions as [Greece]. ...In our country the daily and friendly communion with the leading writers of ...theatre has familiarized...
Unhomelike but not homeless: Inter-national thoughts about theatre reviewing
Nationalism is not
overcome through mere internationalism; it is rather expanded and elevated
thereby into a system.
Martin Heiddegger
For the past several
years I have been teaching a course on theatre criticism and reviewing to
undergraduate students. The following comments are largely the result of that
experience and, of course, they...
