Monday, March 19, 2012
Now playing at the Irondale Ensemble Project in Brooklyn through next Saturday 24 March, Karen Malpede’s Another Life, produced by the Theatre Three Collaborative and directed by the a…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:36AMSunday, March 18, 2012
CBS News runs an Associated Press story here, and Daisey himself commented on the controversy during yesterday’s performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; a recording of …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:43AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Mike Daisey is absolutely right. As he tells Ira Glass on This American Life today: Everything I have done in making this monologue for the theater has been toward that end — to make p…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:53AMFriday, March 16, 2012
My daughters Goldie (three) and Billie (who will be two tomorrow) and I are enjoying pre-bed storytime with a variety of what might be called “classic” children’s books, wh…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:41AMThursday, March 15, 2012
It takes time — years — to develop a style, whether prose, verse, or dramatic, and ultimately it’s a question of assimilation, not imitation. Young writers imitate: They tr…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:51AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
At Culturebot today, Jeremy M. Barker responds in a lengthy but essential essay to Robin Detje and myself. While Barker, Detje, and I dig rather deep in this contemporary though far more mod…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:25AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
My first book, Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama, was published one year ago this month, and I’m delighted that it continues to enjoy sales, regardless o…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:03AMSunday, March 11, 2012
The heat that rises from these debates may give you brain burn, but it’s also thoroughly absorbing. So watch out. Toward the show’s end you may wind up leaping to the stage to join an in…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:26AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
As I develop a longer response to Robin Detje’s essay “Post-Dramatic Theater and the Bleeding Heart of the Seventies,” I wish to link today to another recent essay which is…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:02AMFriday, March 9, 2012
The accountant is the new censor. The accountant claps his hands at the full theatre. Howard Barker “Fortynine asides for a tragic theatre” (1986) Arguments for a Theatre (17) Ju…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:58AMThursday, March 8, 2012
In response to Karen Malpede’s essay “On Being a So-Called Political Playwright” which appeared at Howlround on 29 February, I repost the below brief entry, originally publ…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:27AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Just posted in the last day or two at the Web site for Yale Theater magazine is an essay by German critic Robin Detje that first appeared in Theater heute Jahrbuch 2010, “Post-Dramatic…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 02:27PMOn Tuesday, 28 February, the Guardian posted the below brief, seven-and-a-half minute interview with British dramatist Edward Bond. Bond and Andrew Dickson discuss his early career, the cont…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:36AMMonday, March 5, 2012
At Pirate Dog today, British critic Aleks Sierz (The Theatre of Martin Crimp, Rewriting the Nation) briefly responds to my post regarding avant-garde drama and experimentalism last week, c…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:50PMFriday, March 2, 2012
From 2007, below is a post about Howard Barker’s A Style and Its Origins. Howard Barker/Eduardo Houth, A Style and Its Origins. 119 pages. London: Oberon Books, 2007. The world has a p…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 11:36AMThursday, March 1, 2012
In her post “Avant-garde theatre: Britain has lost what little nerve it had” on 28 February, British theatre artist Hannah Silva reviews some of the current controversy over the…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:28AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
It’s likely that what Marx and Freud were to the twentieth century, Adorno and Lacan will be to the twenty-first. It took nearly a hundred years for the importance of the former pair t…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:11PMMonday, February 27, 2012
The artist or thinker who by nature, choice, or circumstance is a melancholy isolate can indeed find happiness, but it is not the happiness of the individual situated in community, blanketed…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:45PMThursday, February 23, 2012
It is hard, if not impossible, to overestimate the role that Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, played in revolutionizing both the American theatre an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:51AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Tributes to Prof. Daniel Gerould, who passed away earlier this week, can be found in the comments section of my original post. Others may feel free to add to these comments, which constitute…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 06:31PMBelow, Jeremy Irons appears as both Reader and Listener in Charles Sturridge’s 2000 production of Samuel Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu for the Beckett on Film project. More informatio…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:47AMThursday, February 16, 2012
From February 2011, and I find that it resonates more clearly (and Kraus’ words contain more wisdom) with the passage of time in this 21st century. I live in an era of decline and inha…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:32AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Just out from Eyecorner Press, Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance, edited by Caridad Svich, brings together several essays by significant artists, scholars, and critics …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:33AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Yesterday brought news of the recent death of Daniel Gerould, Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the City Univers…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:52AMFriday, February 10, 2012
I’m continuing to enjoy the virtues of streaming Netflix, and over a few hours last night I was delighted to revisit yet another rarity — Michael Ritchie’s 1975 satire of b…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:02AMThursday, February 9, 2012
In the 1990s and 2000s, a hustler in the northeastern United States exploited his own ethnic roots and his own winning style to bilk hundreds of people from his own ethnic community out of m…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:25AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
In regard to my post earlier today, I’m glad to add that Cambridge University Press has announced that a new translation of the Fourfold Root is scheduled to be published as part of th…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:20PMThe role of sexuality and tragedy in Samuel Beckett’s work is receiving new attention. Published by Palgrave just last year, Paul Stewart’s Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett&#…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:06AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
To describe myself as a pessimist and an elitist is, today, an act of radical repudiation and risks misunderstanding and even hostility from those who, first, accept mere potted definitions …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:59AMFriday, February 3, 2012
Apropos of yesterday’s post, the British (and Germans) are stepping in where U.S. critics and publishers fear to tread. I am informed that Methuen is planning a survey of American play…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:25AMThursday, February 2, 2012
Before I retire to matters extra-theatrical and non-dramatic, a little unfinished business to be completed. I note the new publication of The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Play…
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