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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Innovate This by George Hunka

(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). In 1978 the National Lampoon released…

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Last stop, everybody off by George Hunka

If a thing is worth doing, goes the saying, it is worth doing well, and this is as true of theatre blogs like this one as it is of everything ...

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Ezra Pound’s anti-theatrical prejudice by George Hunka

Unlike the situation in continental Europe, the relationship between Modernism and the English-language stage has always been uneasy. Several “High Modernists” wrote for the stag…

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

This Sunday, Marilyn Nonken traces her pianistic roots by George Hunka

As part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Next season at the Public Theater by George Hunka

Ah, youth. In 1978, at the green age of 16, I first visited the Public Theater on Lafayette Street on a short weekend trip from my home of Hazleton, PA, for a day of theatregoing that could …

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Paul Celan: The Straitening (1958) by George Hunka

Celan began a long poem in which “what’s real happens.” It was his follow-up to “Todesfuge” and moved deeper into inaccessible terrain. “Engführung”…

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Ron Rosenbaum’s theatre problem, and ours by George Hunka

I know I’m late to the party, but recently I’ve been enjoying the writings of Ron Rosenbaum, the writer of “narrative nonfiction and essays,” as he describes them, an…

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Celan and Beckett by George Hunka

According to John Felstiner, Theodor Adorno considered Paul Celan “the only authentic postwar writer to stand with Samuel Beckett.” [1] (Adorno, Beckett, Celan: there’…

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Upcoming: The Grand Gesture by George Hunka

This Saturday at 8.00pm, Marilyn Nonken and Sarah Rothenberg will perform a two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) and Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Ame…

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Upcoming in London: Screaming in Advance by George Hunka

On Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May at London’s Print Room, members of Howard Barker’s Wrestling School will present readings of four new plays by the dramatist — Concentrat…

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

On some photographs by Paul Cava by George Hunka

Paul Cava’s recent photographs demonstrate the tension between the vulnerable flesh and the solid object, between the body’s freedom and its restraint and encasement in hard pose…

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Monday, April 8, 2013

God bless the child by George Hunka

A diversion for Monday: Our friend Izzy Morgana Rabey has recently begun working with Welsh jazz pianist Bill Sutton, and just last month they recorded this version of “God Bless the C…

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Friday, April 5, 2013

21 asides on theatre criticism by George Hunka

Well, the series on criticism at Howlround has finally wound its way to the end of its weary week; you’ll find essays by Rob Weinert-Kendt (American Theatre and the New York Times), Ja…

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Archives: Readings in New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit by George Hunka

Originally posted on 18 February 2011. Though he wrote more extensively about it in his English Drama Since 1940, David Ian Rabey first suggested a “New Expressionism” as one of…

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Marilyn Nonken traces her roots by George Hunka

As part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

From the archives: The subterranean history of Europe and the martyrs of love by George Hunka

Originally published 1 May 2012: Beneath the known history of Europe there runs a subterranean one. It consists of the fate of the human instincts and passions repressed and distorted by ...

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Richard Foreman: Plays with Films by George Hunka

Plays with Films, a collection of three of Richard Foreman’s recent theater texts, is forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press on 30 April, just in time for the opening of Foreman’s …

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Friday, March 29, 2013

A few words in praise of gentlemen by George Hunka

Perhaps one of the more obvious traits about a few recent non-events in the critical community is that they display what might best be called un-gentlemanliness–that is, they cross the…

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Books: The Age of American Unreason by George Hunka

Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason. New York: Vintage Books, 2009 (an update of the original hardcover edition published by Pantheon Books in 2008). 357 pages. In 1963, Knopf publish…

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Friday, March 22, 2013

From the Erlkönig notebook by George Hunka

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

From the archives: Schoenberg and the New Expressionism by George Hunka

Originally posted on 19 October 2010. In his monograph on the music of Arnold Schoenberg [1], Charles Rosen describes one of the composer’s major achievements as “emancipati…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

From the archives: New Expressionism by George Hunka

Originally posted on 18 October 2010. In Schopenhauer’s conception of knowledge and the world, mankind is phenomenon par excellence, the object through which subjectivity can be known …

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

From the archives: A few notes on the subject by George Hunka

Originally posted on 23 March 2012. One of the responsibilities of criticism in this century is the reclamation of the individual subject, a subject who has been susceptible to undermining a…

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

From the Erlkönig notebook by George Hunka

As his work has provided inspiration to me before, so is it now; above a montage by Paul Cava, whose work is being celebrated in For Love, an exhibition at the jdc Fine Art gallery this mont…

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Erlkönig notebook: Terry Eagleton by George Hunka

… Nothingness is a profoundly political notion. It is an implicit critique of a social order obscenely bulging with matter. In Beckett’s case, of course, it has a more particular…

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Available now: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy by George Hunka

One of the most promising books about drama and theatre on the spring list is Sean Carney‘s The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy, published a few weeks ago by the U…

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From the archives: A report card for the arts by George Hunka

When the 1 March sequester went into effect, the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was cut by 8.2%, from $148 million to about $136 million, according to this report (this $148 m…

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Upcoming: Diagilev’s Paris by George Hunka

If you’re in Houston next Wednesday, don’t miss Diagilev’s Paris, a concert presented by Da Camera and featuring Sarah Rothenberg and my wife Marilyn Nonken. They’ll …

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Wednesday video: Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie at the Segal Center by George Hunka

Earlier today I posted my review of Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie at the Women’s Project Theatre; for those who want to know more, you couldn’t do better than the discussion, &…

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Review: Jackie by George Hunka

Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger. Directed by Tea Alagic. With Tina Benko. Scenic design: Marsha Ginsberg; costume design: Susan Hilferty; lighting design: Brian H Sc…

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Monday, March 4, 2013

A modest proposal by George Hunka

I am rarely tempted to offer suggestions as to the improvement of drama criticism and reviews in the mainstream media. As some of the responses to John Lahr’s recent essay suggest, how…

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