446 stories by "George Hunka"
The National Theatre in London has just announced further details about their upcoming production of Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution, which will open on 27 September in the NT…
Originally filed in August 2011. In regard to the last paragraph, Mark Nixon’s excellent monograph Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1936"1937 was recently published by Continuum. …
Fewer than half of my readers reside in the United States, say my statistics; most of them appear to be from Europe, first the UK followed by France, then Germany, then the lovely towns and …
The ladies and gentlemen of the United States Postal Service dropped the new issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art in my mailbox yesterday, and Bonnie Marranca curates a fine collec…
A friendly correspondent writes me to take issue with my flippant, blanket dismissal of the Occupy movement at the bottom of a rather lengthier post yesterday. Unfortunately it’s Monda…
Good news comes along too rarely to let it go without comment, so here’s a bit. Last 31 December, President Barack Obama signed a piece of legislation to warm Home Secretary Orbison…
This morning brings news of the death of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who would have been 87 in just ten days. The Guardian has an obituary here; below, a YouTube video of the great lieder mast…
If you can manage it, you should take the hike out to Brooklyn’s Brick next month for Matthew Freeman‘s new show, Confess Your Bubble, a monologue written for the Brick’s s…
First published on 7 April 2011. From Ben Brantley’s “The Joys of Feel-Bad Drama,” in today’s New York Times: Still, more than three decades after it was written, [Wa…
It’s always a pleasure to welcome the annual summer visits of the Potomac Theatre Project to New York. This year, the company will offer Neal Bell’s Monster, an adaptation of the…
Lyn Gardner pointed the way to Dennis Kelly’s speech “Why political theatre is a complete fucking waste of time” the other day, and despite that sensational title the speec…
British playwright Dennis Kelly, whose musical adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel Matilda is scheduled to land on Broadway next year following a triumphant run at the the Royal Shakespeare C…
There are now 15 hours left in the LuckyAnt fundraising drive to save the Living Theatre. The campaign seeks to raise $24,000, which would permit the group “to pay its rent, bring in a…
Howard Barker’s 1970 play No One Was Saved formed the basis of Made, a 1972 film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Roy Harper and Carol White; Barker himself wrote the screenplay…
Television play in 25 scenes. Unproduced in that medium; first performed in the season “Plays Television Would Not Do” at the RSC Warehouse Theatre, 21 February 1979. Directed by…
Two of the most critically and commercially successful theatre productions in the United States currently are the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and the Goodma…
Play in two acts. First performed at the RSC’s Warehouse Theatre in Covent Garden, 28 July 1977. Directed by Barry Kyle; designed by William Dudley; lighting by David Boshell. With Ian…
Television play in two parts, written c. 1976 according to Brown. Unproduced in that medium; first performed in the season “Plays Television Would Not Do” at the RSC Warehouse Th…
Now available for instant streaming on Netflix, the 1974 documentary Janis, directed by Howard Alk, is a refreshing portrait of the great — one of the greatest — rock-and-roll si…
In A Style and Its Origins (2007), Howard Barker’s alter-ego Eduardo Houth wrote of Barker’s playful attitude towards the UK’s National Theatre: Barker had amused himself b…
Play in three acts. First performed at the Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield, 19 October 1978. Directed by David Leland. With Roger Sloman (Hacker), Toby Salaman (Prince of Wales), Richard …
Adorno is not particularly known for his writings on eros (indeed there are few). But, after doing a reading of and research into Howard Barker’s early play The Love of a Good Man, I c…
The conflation of technological advancement with human progress leads to self-worship. Reason makes possible the calculations, science and technological advances of industrial civilization, …
Founded by Julian Beck and Judith Malina in 1947, The Living Theatre continues its work at 21 Clinton Street; this longevity testifies to the continuing relevance of the exploration of theat…
One of the more interesting dimensions of the off-off-Broadway scene was how little of it actually took place in sites specifically designed as theatres. Both Joe Cino and Ellen Stewart oper…
