446 stories by "George Hunka"
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…
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…
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 instan…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On 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…
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,…
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…
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 t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Below, 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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 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&#…
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 …
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…
