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van den Berg, Klaus. "The Geometry of Culture: Urban Space and Theatre Buildings in Twentieth-Century Berlin." Theatre Research International 16, no. 1 (1991): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300009986.
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In her 1983 book, Semiotik des Theaters, Erika Fischer-Lichte referred to theatre as part of ‘die Geometrie der Kultur’, a network of relationships materialized in space that symbolizes cultural experience. The concept of the geometry of culture may enable us to show how, in an urban space, different strands of human activities find their expression in the outline of urban space. Lewis Mumford demonstrates in The City in History that political programmes, economic interests, and cultural concepts influence the city's organization as well as the functions which individual buildings take in the urban environment. Cultural historians and semioticians such as Mary Henderson, Monika Steinhauser, Michael Hays, and Marvin Carlson have adopted this perspective for their investigations of the history of theatre in various metropolitan areas. For example, Henderson studies the relationship between the theatres and the financial district in New York City; Michael Hays and Monika Steinhauser analyse particular urban monuments, such as the Lincoln Center in New York and the Paris Opera. Marvin Carlson analyses how theatre buildings have been integrated historically as public monuments in various urban settings. Within the context of such studies I will examine the spatial and aesthetic re-alignments that World War II forced upon the integration of theatre buildings in Berlin, taking as case studies four major theatres: the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, the Deutsches Theater, the Schillertheater and the Volksbühne.
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JENSEN. "THE THEATRE COLLECTION MAKES THEATRE HISTORY." Princeton University Library Chronicle 49, no. 3 (1988): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26404155.
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Howson-Griffiths, Teri. "Locating sensory labyrinth theatre within immersive theatres' history." Studies in Theatre and Performance 40, no. 2 (September 9, 2019): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2019.1663649.
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Balme, Christopher, and Tracy C. Davis. "A Cultural History of Theatre: A Prospectus." Theatre Survey 56, no. 3 (September 2015): 402–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557415000320.
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If theatre historians had been paying attention to the proceedings at a Gilbert and Sullivan conference in Lawrence, Kansas in 1970, they would have heard a gauntlet strike the ground when Michael R. Booth delivered “Research Opportunities in Nineteenth-Century Drama and Theatre.” He called for research on audiences (“cultural levels, class origins, income, tastes, and development”), performance in the hinterlands (“we know that in 1866 60% of the theatre seats in metropolitan London were outside the West End”), economics (“theatre profits and losses, actors' wages, authors' income, management and organization, the pricing of seats”), and performance techniques (“technical developments in set construction, staging, lighting, traps, and special effects” as well as acting style). This cri de coeur to break the hegemony of literary teleologies is recognizable, in 2015, as a mandate to reorient inquiry toward how repertoires were delivered rather than how authorial talent was paramount, what buttressed profitability rather than what constituted fame, and who sustained a gamut of theatres rather than what demarcated elite taste. It set the agenda for aligning theatre studies in wholly new directions, and without citing a single source or calling out any particular historian it inventoried how theatre history could come into line with social history.
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Jory, E. J. "Gladiators in the Theatre." Classical Quarterly 36, no. 2 (December 1986): 537–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800012301.
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While restating the correct interpretation of the prologue to the Hecyra of Terence in CQ 32 (1982), 134 F. H. Sandbach has this to say: ‘Possibly the widespread view which the translators and I reject has been encouraged by disbelief that the theatre could be used for gladiatorial combat. It is true that there is no reliable evidence for such use at Rome, for Donatus' statement “hoc abhorret a nostra consuetudine uerumtamen apud antiquos gladiatores in theatro spectabantur” may be no more than inference from Terence's text.’ There is, in fact, a certain amount of evidence for gladiatorial combats in the theatres at Rome, that is at venues where ludi scaenici were performed, which it is difficult to regard as unreliable and which is consistent with what we know of the relationship between the theatre and gladiatorial games.
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Kudina, Ekaterina O. "To the creative history of Yuri Belyaev’s play Psisha." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 72–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-1-72-77.
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The paper examines the creative history of the play Psisha by Yuri Belyaev – a theatre critic, fiction writer and dramatist of the Silver Age. While working on the article cycle A night at “The Opera House” about theatre history of the times of Catherine II, the critic researched historical sources: periodical, fiction, documents of the second half of the 18th – early 19th centuries. There Belyaev must have found the material for his early fictional experience – the historical short story Psisha. Among the characters of the story were a landowner – аn avid theatergoer, and the actors of his serf company. In this story the set of themes is defined, which the writer will develop further in his later works: the court and the serf theatres, the repertoire, the tragic fate of dependent actors. Later Belyaev addressed the theme of the serf theater as a dramatist and his artistic pursuits resulted in the play Psisha. The stage version had a great audience success in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the 1911–1912 theatrical season and was highly appreciated by theater observers in newspapers and journals. Judging by the reviews in the periodical press, the author of Psisha managed to strike the right balance between stylizations that became relevant during this period, the recreation of everyday scenes of the era and a sentimental psychological drama from the life of serf actors. Thus, it was possible to establish that Belyaev’s first works on the history of the Russian theater and his first literary works shaped the main themes and images of one of his most famous dramas.
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Roach, Joseph R. "Reconstructing Theatre/History." Theatre Topics 9, no. 1 (1999): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.1999.0005.
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Tillis, Steve. "Remapping Theatre History." Theatre Topics 17, no. 1 (2007): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2007.0012.
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Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. "A History of Theatre in Africa. Edited by Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xvii + 478; $140 cloth." Theatre Survey 46, no. 2 (October 25, 2005): 313–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557405220203.
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One of the greatest challenges to teaching world theatre history in the United States is that the vast majority of survey history books spend two dozen chapters on the theatre of the West, giving the theatres of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East a single chapter each at best. In addition, there have to date been no comprehensive histories of African theatre covering the entire continent, Africa north of the Sahara being linked for cultural reasons with the Middle East instead of geographically with the rest of the continent. A History of Theatre in Africa, edited by the pioneer of African-theatre scholarship, Martin Banham, is an excellent, if uneven, redressing of those imbalances.
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Shevtsova, Maria. "Political Theatre in Europe: East to West, 2007–2014." New Theatre Quarterly 32, no. 2 (April 13, 2016): 142–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x1600004x.
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What political theatre may be in contemporary times and in what sense it is ‘political’ are the core issues of this article. Maria Shevtsova discusses examples from within a restricted period, 2007 to 2014, but from a wide area that begins in Eastern Europe – Russia, Romania, Hungary, Poland – and moves to Germany and France. Her examples are principally productions by established ensemble theatre companies and her analysis is framed by a brief discussion concerning independent theatres, ‘counter-cultural’ positions, and institutional and institutionalized theatres. This latter group is in focus to indicate how political theatre in the seven years specified has been far from alien to, or sidelined from, national theatres, state theatres, or other prestigious companies in receipt of state subsidy. Two main profiles of recent political theatre emerge from this research, one that acknowledges political history, while the other critiques neoliberal capitalism; there is some unpronounced overlap between the two. Productions of Shakespeare feature significantly in the delineated theatrescape. Maria Shevtsova is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent book (co-authored) is The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (2013).
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Tillis, Steve. "CONCEPTUALIZING SPACE: THE GEOGRAPHIC DIMENSION OF WORLD THEATRE." Theatre Survey 52, no. 2 (November 2011): 301–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557411000408.
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Geography has been accorded surprisingly little attention in the study of world theatre history. Maps are by no means the sum total of geographic knowledge, but their existence (or the lack thereof) provides a handy indicator of an author's interest in the subject. Oscar G. Brockett and Franklin J. Hildy'sHistory of Theatrehas numerous pictures of actors and diagrams of theatres but only one map that directly pertains to theatre. All the rest of its maps (of which there are fewer than two dozen) are standard-issue political maps.Theatre Histories: An Introduction, by Phillip B. Zarrilli and others, is groundbreaking in many ways, but it includes only six maps, and none of these directly concerns theatre. Each of the six volumes ofThe World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatreincludes only one map, a basic political one. Other standard reference works on the history of theatre contain no maps; these includeThe Cambridge Guide to Theatre,The Oxford Companion to the Theatre, andThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance.Numerous types of map might be relevant for a study of theatre, but aside from the occasional political map, the basic overviews of theatre history do not include such resources.
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Deswal, Neerja. "Indian Folk Theatre : History and Relevance of its Revival." Journal of National Development 31, no. 1 (July 1, 2018): 173–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.29070/31/57450.
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Ozieblo, Barbara. "Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience. By Dorothy Chansky. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004; pp. 256; 15 illus. $55 cloth; Summer Stock! An American Phenomenon. By Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004; pp. 320; 25 illus. $27.95 cloth." Theatre Survey 46, no. 2 (October 25, 2005): 343–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557405370207.
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The theatre has long been recognized as a site from which national and social values can be promoted, and this was particularly the case with the Little Theatre and summer stock phenomena. Even when performing non-American plays, these movements addressed the education of the audience, as Dorothy Chansky and Martha Schmoyer LoMonaco make apparent in two rigorously researched studies. Both have chosen to focus on the audience as an integral component of the theatrical event and, eschewing postmodern theories of the spectator's gaze, they bring a sociohistorical perspective to their findings, which are based on in-depth research of theatre documents, memoirs, and reviews. Chansky examines how the Little Theatres constructed and educated their audiences, whereas LoMonaco, in tracing the history of a number of summer-stock theatres, uncovers the hold that the audience has on artistic and financial policies. The two books cover areas and aspects of theatre history not frequently studied; they examine the complex artistic and economic issues involved in founding and running a theatre, while also certifying that American theatre has never been contained by a few streets in the vicinity of Times Square.
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McConachie, Bruce A. "Realizing a Postpositivist Theatre History." New Theatre Quarterly 10, no. 39 (August 1994): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x0000052x.
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Bruce McConachie teaches in the Theatre Department at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is one of the leading theatre historians in the United States, who has, as David Mayer put it in his review of McConachie's most recent book, Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820–1870, ‘been examining, criticizing, and improving the practice of theatre historiography’ for many years. McConachie's re-examination of how history is researched, analyzed, and written has its origins in an article, ‘Towards a Postpositivist Theatre History’, which he published in Theatre Journal in 1985, criticizing scholars who limit their theatre histories to events in the theatre. He called for historians to realize that theatre is only one part of a much larger socio-cultural complex, and that it is the historian's job to analyze theatre in terms of that complex. this article was the point of departure for the following interview, which Ian Watson conducted with McConachie in Philadelphia in January 1993.
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KNOWLES, D. "Armand Gatti's Two Theatres: 'Theatre institutionnel' and 'Theatre d'intervention'." French Studies 49, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/49.1.49.
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Левитан, Ольга. "Русский театр в Израиле: сто лет вместе." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 45, no. 1 (2011): 76–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221023911x552016.
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AbstractThe article explores the history of the Russian Theatre in Israel as an inseparable part of Israeli theatre life: Russian Jews had a decisive role in the foundation of Israeli theatre and in the very beginning of Hebrew theatre in Palestine and in Moscow, and for decades the main Israeli artists introduced themselves as pupils of Vachtangov and Stanislavsky. In addition, a specific sensitiveness to Russian cultural tradition made a serious impact on Israeli theatre school and repertoire policy. The article discusses the phenomenon of enduring connections between Israeli and Russian theatres. The discussion is based on original archive research, and it includes first publication of a variety of data and documents as well as the analysis of different aspects of the intercultural Israeli-Russian dialogue.
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Roark, Carolyn D. "Theatre History Explained (review)." Theatre Topics 17, no. 1 (2007): 87–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2007.0011.
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Rush, Adam. "Musical theatre: a history." Studies in Theatre and Performance 39, no. 2 (November 8, 2017): 206–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2017.1401302.
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Bibi, Ambreen, Saimaan Ashfaq, Qazi Muhammad Saeed Ullah, and Naseem Abbas. "Ajoka Theatre as an Icon of Liberal Humanist Values." Review of Education, Administration & LAW 4, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 279–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/real.v4i1.135.
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There are multiple ways of transferring human values, cultures and history from one generation to another. Literature, Art, Paintings and Theatrical performances are the real reflection of any civilization. In the history of subcontinent, theatres played a vital role in promoting the Pakistani and Indian history; Mughal culture and traditions. Pakistani theatre, “Ajoka” played significant role to propagate positive, humanitarian and liberal humanist values. This research aims to investigate the transformation in the history of Pakistani theatre specifically the “Ajoka” theatre that was established under the government of military dictatorship in Pakistan in the late nineteenth century. It was not a compromising time for the celebration of liberal humanist values in Pakistan as the country was under the rules of military dictatorship. The present study is intended to explore the dissemination of liberal humanist values in the plays and performances of “Ajoka” theatre. The research is meant to highlight the struggle of “Ajoka” theatre for enhancing the message of love, tolerance, peace and other humanist values in such crucial time.
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Bertilotti, Teresa. "Un dramma "concepito come un romanzo d'appendice". Traduzioni del Risorgimento sulle scene della Grande guerra." MEMORIA E RICERCA, no. 29 (March 2009): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/mer2008-029007.
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- The article focuses on Italian theatre and its reception during the First World War, in particular on the dramas and performances based on the Risorgimento's history. This type of performance cannot be considered as high or low theatre: the plots cannot be bound to one category, audience reactions are the same in Milan as they are in small city theatres and in schools, independently from who is acting. The author sheds light on the popularization process of national history through theatre and at the same time, contextualises these apparently opaque plots, in an attempt to understand what the performances conveyed.
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Brown, John. "Tomorrow's Theatre – and How to Get There from Today's." New Theatre Quarterly 18, no. 4 (November 2002): 334–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x02000441.
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Taking a wide-ranging look at the aesthetics and economics of theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, and highlighting the increasing interest in learning about theatre in the educational sphere at a time when institutional theatre appears to be floundering, John Russell Brown here draws on his own visits over the past decade to traditional and contemporary theatres in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia to suggest how new approaches to and locations for theatre might build on forms which continue to draw audiences worldwide. John Russell Brown founded the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, and for fifteen years was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. His New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia was published by Routledge in 1999. His articles on Asian theatres and their influence in Europe and America have appeared in recent years in New Theatre Quarterly and several Indian journals. He edited and contributed to The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (1995) and has been General Editor of the ‘Theatre Production Studies’ and ‘Theatre Concepts’ series, both for Routledge. This article is based upon his inaugural lecture at Middlesex University, where he is currently Visiting Professor.
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Ley, Graham. "Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 27, no. 3 (August 2011): 215–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x11000431.
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In 1996 Graham Ley compiled for NTQ a record of the first twenty years of Tara Arts, the London-based British Asian theatre company. In this essay, he tests the theoretical concept of a third space for diaspora culture against the experience of two leading British Asian theatre companies, and considers the contrasting role of an Asian arts centre. From 2004 to 2009 Graham Ley led an AHRC-funded research project on ‘British Asian Theatre: Documentation and Critical History’, and has co-edited with Sarah Dadswell two books soon to be published by the University of Exeter Press: British South Asian Theatres: a Documented History and Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre. He has earlier published in NTQ on Australian theatre and enlightenment and contemporary performance theory, and is presently Professor of Drama and Theory at the University of Exeter.
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Tillis, Steve. "The Case against World Theatre History." New Theatre Quarterly 28, no. 4 (November 2012): 379–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x1200067x.
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A strong case can be made against world theatre history as a subject of scholarly study. This paper analyzes seven arguments that can be levelled against world theatre history as an academic subject. It then offers rebuttals to each of these arguments. In so doing, it seeks not only to establish the legitimacy of world theatre history as a subject of study, but also to clarify the methodologies and the goals of such study. Steve Tillis received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches at St Mary's College of California. He has previously published articles on world theatre history in Asian Theatre Journal, TDR, Theatre Topics, and Theatre Survey.
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Shodell, Elly. ":Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memories." Oral History Review 34, no. 2 (September 2007): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ohr.2007.34.2.181.
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HEINRICH, ANSELM. "Shakespeare and Kolbenheyer: Regional Theatre During the Third Reich – a Case Study." Theatre Research International 31, no. 3 (October 2006): 221–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883306002197.
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The importance of regional theatre in the grand scheme of theatre history has long been neglected; this even holds true for an area of research which has aroused more historical interest than any other – Nazi Germany. Addressing this desideratum the article investigates the history of a typical provincial theatre – the Städtische Bühnen in the Westphalian city of Münster – with a special emphasis on the repertoire. The author examines how far the regime was able to implement its demand for a specifically political theatre and relates his findings to other German playhouses. The article argues that the failure of the Nazi administration to turn the Münster playhouse into a propaganda stage does not mean that regional theatres did not fulfil their role for the regime. They did so in other, less obvious ways.
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Wainscott, Ronald H. "American Theatre Versus the Congress of the United States: The Theatre Tax Controversy and Public Rebellion of 1919." Theatre Survey 31, no. 1 (May 1990): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400000958.
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For eight days in January 1919 the theatre industry was at war with the U.S. Congress, a nationwide event surprisingly overlooked in previous theatre history. Theatre management and its host of workers joined with the public to wage a well-orchestrated campaign in the newspapers and mail, in the theatres and on the streets to stop what was perceived as a gross injustice to the American theatre and its paying audience.When the United States Congress was framing a six billion dollar tax revenue bill to recover exorbitant war costs from the first world war, it attempted to slip in a new tax which would raise theatre admissions by ten per cent in order to return between seventy-five and eighty-one million dollars to the government. The original bill levied a twenty per cent tax on all tickets of admission above thirty cents (thus most movie houses were exempt). In addition box seat holders at theatres and the opera were to be taxed twenty-five per cent.
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Bay-Cheng, Sarah. "Theatre Squared: Theatre History in the Age of Media." Theatre Topics 17, no. 1 (2007): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.2007.0001.
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Watson, Julia. "Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?) by Charlotte Salomon." Biography 42, no. 2 (2019): 438–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2019.0050.
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DUTT, BISHNUPRIYA. "Introduction." Theatre Research International 42, no. 3 (October 2017): 323–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788331700061x.
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These three essays on distinct research areas and case studies cover a broad history of educational institutions in India, their focus on theatre and cultural education, and their role in creating citizens active in the public sphere and civic communities. The common point of reference for all the three essays is the historical transition from pre- to post-independence India, and they represent three dominant genres of Indian theatre practice: the amateur progressive theatre emerging out of sociopolitical movements; the State Drama School, which has remained at the core of the state's policy and vision of a national theatre; and college theatre, which comprises the field from which the National School of Drama sources its acting students, as well as new audiences for urban theatres.
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Haddad, Naif Adel, Leen Adeeb Fakhoury, and Talal S. Akasheh. "Notes on anthropogenic risks mitigation management and recovery of ancient theatres’ heritage." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 8, no. 3 (August 20, 2018): 222–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-11-2016-0062.
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Purpose Ancient theatres and odea are one of the most significant and creative socio-cultural edutainment centres of human history that are still in use. They stood and served as huge multi-functional structures for social, religious, propaganda and political meeting space. Meanwhile, ancient theatres’ sites have an intrinsic value for all people, and as a vital basis for cultural diversity, social and economic development, they should continue to be a source of information for future generations. Though, all places with ancient theatre heritage should be assessed as to their potential risk from any anthropogenic or natural process. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The main paper’s objective is to discuss mainly the anthropogenic and technical risks, vulnerability and impact issues on the ancient classical theatres. While elaborating on relevant recent studies, where the authors were involved in ERATO and ATHENA European projects for ancient theatres and odea, this paper provides a brief overview of the main aspects of the anthropogenic qualitative risks and related issues for selected classical antiquity theatres. Some relevant cases are critically presented and investigated in order to examine and clarify the main risk mitigation issues as an essential prerequisite for theatre heritage preservation and its interface with heritage reuse. Findings Theatre risk mitigation is an ongoing and challenging task. By preventive conservation, theatre anthropogenic qualitative risks’ management can provide a framework for decision making. The needed related guidelines and recommendations that provide a systematic approach for sustainable management and planning in relation mainly to “ancient theatre compatible use” and “theatre technical risks” are analysed and presented. This is based on identification, classification and assessment of the theatre risk causes and contributing factors and their mitigation. Originality/value The paper also suggests a new methodological approach for the theatre anthropogenic qualitative risk assessment and mitigation management, and develop some recommendations that provide a systematic approach for theatre site managers and heritage experts to understand, assess, and mitigate risks mainly due to anthropogenic and technical threats.
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Golovlev, Alexander. "Political Control, Administrative Simplicity, or Economies of Scale? Four Cases of the Reunification of Nationalized Theatres in Russia, Germany, Austria, and France (1918–45)." New Theatre Quarterly 38, no. 2 (April 20, 2022): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x22000021.
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In 1917–18, the new republican governments of Russia, Germany, and Austria nationalized their former court property. A monarchic-turned-national heritage of prestigious opera and dramatic theatres weighed heavily on national and regional budgets, prompting first attempts to create centralized forms of theatre governance. In a second wave of theatre reorganization in the mid-1930s, the Soviet government created ‘union theatres’ under a Committee for Arts Affairs; the German and Austrian theatres underwent the Nazi Gleichschaltung (1933–35 and 1938); and France, a ‘democratic outlier’, opted for nationalizing the Opéra and Opéra-Comique under the Réunion des théâtres lyriques nationaux. These conglomerates have so far been little studied as historically specific forms of theatre management, particularly from a comparative, trans-regime perspective. What balance can be struck between economic, political, and ‘artistic’ costs and benefits? How does ‘Baumol’s law’ of decreasing theatre profitability apply to these very different politico-economic systems, as well as to war economies? Dictatorships reveal an economic seduction power, while this essay argues for confirming a long-term ‘great European convergence’ of state-centred theatre management, internal structure, and accountability, both in peace and war. Here, the stated goals and short-term contingencies yielded to trends originating from the logic of theatre production itself, and the compromises that the state, theatre professionals, and the public accepted in exchange for the capital of prestige. Alexander Golovlev (PhD, European University Institute in Florence, 2017) is a senior research fellow at the HSE Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the University of Moscow. His recent publications include, for New Theatre Quarterly, ‘Theatre Policies of Soviet Stalinism and Italian Fascism Compared, 1920–1940s’ (2019), and ‘Balancing the Books and Staging Operas under Duress: Bolshoi Theatre Management, Wartime Economy, and State Sponsorship in 1941–1945’, Russian History XLVII, No. 4 (2020).
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Elam Jr., Harry J. "Making History." Theatre Survey 45, no. 2 (November 2004): 219–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404000171.
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These three quotes will serve as a starting point as I enter into this discussion of the import and role of theatre history. While I make a case for theatre history generally, my examples and thesis are drawn from African American theatre history most specifically. My argument is for a critical historicism, a process that recognizes the need to historicize and situate dramatic criticism as well as the need to theorize history or, as Walter Benjamin suggests, to “rub history against the grain.” Rubbing history against the grain means that we must interrogate the past in order to inform the present, remaining cognizant of the material conditions that not only shape theatrical production but the historical interpretations of production. It implies a need to work against conventional historical narratives and the ways in which history has been told in the past.
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Schoolfield, George C., Frederick J. Marker, and Lise-Lone Marker. "A History of Scandinavian Theatre." World Literature Today 71, no. 4 (1997): 808. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40153403.
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El Desouqi, Anas Mohamed El Sayyed. "Verbatim Theatre: History and Techniques." مجلة کلیة الآداب .جامعة بورسعید 11, no. 11 (January 1, 2018): 255–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jfpsu.2018.57657.
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Tornqvist, Egil, Frederick J. Marker, and Lise-Lone Marker. "A History of Scandinavian Theatre." Modern Language Review 94, no. 3 (July 1999): 898. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737097.
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McConachie, Bruce A. "Towards a Postpositivist Theatre History." Theatre Journal 37, no. 4 (December 1985): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3207520.
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Reilingh, Maarten A., and Glynne Wickham. "A History of the Theatre." Theatre Journal 38, no. 4 (December 1986): 510. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3208312.
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Carnicke, Sharon Marie, Robert Leach, and Victor Borovsky. "A History of Russian Theatre." Slavic and East European Journal 45, no. 4 (2001): 784. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3086155.
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Carney, Saraleigh, Glynne Wickham, Patti P. Gillespie, and Kenneth M. Cameron. "A History of the Theatre." Performing Arts Journal 10, no. 1 (1986): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3245579.
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Lorch, Jennifer, Joseph Farrell, and Paolo Puppa. "A History of Italian Theatre." Modern Language Review 103, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20467726.
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Scott, Virginia. "Dark Thoughts about [Theatre] History." Theatre Survey 45, no. 2 (November 2004): 189–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404000134.
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Coetzee's nameless speaker, known only as “Mother,” is accused by her son of an excess of righteousness, and so might I be if I were to agree with her, at least in part, about that gang of thugs. Nonetheless, my hope for the future of the discipline does include the possibility that Clio will escape from the particular thug responsible for jargon and gibberish. Actually, nothing arouses darker thoughts in those of us who believe in lucid and stylish prose than sentences like “what is at stake here is the possibility that the cultural presence of the actor in theatre and in theatre history is delimited by material representational practices generated within a particular discursive site, and subject to the constraints of what can be enunciated about the self's contingent existence.” This may be perfectly clear to others, but I read it as a signal to a choir within which I do not sing, and I stop reading—a pity, since the topic is especially interesting to me and the author has important things to say. But, as Terry Eagleton says in his new book After Theory (the one presently receiving an international drubbing), “you can be difficult without being obscure.”
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Erdman, Harley. "Introduction to "Reconstructing Theatre/History"." Theatre Topics 9, no. 1 (1999): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tt.1999.0003.
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Muneroni, Stefano. "Jesuit History, Theatre, and Spirituality." Religion and the Arts 23, no. 3 (June 10, 2019): 273–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02303004.
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Abstract The 2014 staging and publication of Jonathan Moore’s play Inigo offers a unique commentary on the relationship between acting and spirituality within the Society of Jesus, the official name of the Jesuit Order. Through a close analysis of Moore’s play, this article contends that Jesuit spirituality draws on performative skills to inspire exemplary behavior and foster an embodied and long-lasting response to devotional narratives. In probing post-secular readings of hagiographical drama, the author considers the reasons for the ongoing fascination exerted by saints as stage characters in contemporary plays and argues that the success of Inigo is due to its humanistic reconfiguration of the notions of sanctity, faith, and redemption, as well as to its understanding of sainthood as the result of answering a religious and artistic vocation.
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Burrell, Julie. "Querying Difference in Theatre History." Ecumenica 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2009): 95–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.2.1.0095.
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Veksler, Asya F. "Nadezhda Bromley and Boris Sushkevich: Actors, Directors, Vakhtangov Followers (Materials for a Creative Biography)." Observatory of Culture 17, no. 5 (November 12, 2020): 526–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2020-17-5-526-537.
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Boris Sushkevich and Nadezhda Bromley (Sushkevich-Bromley) are remarkable theatrical figures, actors and directors whose lot was connected with the bright and dramatic periods of our country’s theatrical life from the beginning to the middle of the 20th century. They devoted a part of their professional life to the 1st Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre (from 1919 — Moscow Art Academic Theatre), which later became a separate theater (Moscow Art Academic Theatre II, 1924—1936). Since the middle of the 1930s, they worked in leading Leningrad theaters — the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater (Alexandrinsky Theatre) and the New Theater (1933—1953, now the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre). This article introduces little-studied archival sources of biographical nature related to the work of these outstanding cultural figures.Nadezhda Nikolayevna Bromley was a heiress of the Bromley — Sherwood creative dynasties, which had made a significant contribution to Russian culture. She joined the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater in 1908, performed on the stage of the 1st Studio (1918—1924), was one of the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Academic Theatre II after its separation, participated in its Directing Department being in charge of the literary part. Generously gifted by nature, N. Bromley wrote poems, short stories, novels; her fictional works “From the Notes of the Last God” (1927) and “Gargantua’s Descendant” (1930) earned critical acclaim. Two plays by N. Bromley were staged in the Moscow Art Academic Theatre II. One of them — the full of hyperbole and grotesque “Archangel Michael” — was passionately accepted by E.B. Vakhtangov and A.V. Lunacharsky, though never shown to a wide audience. At the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater and the New Theater, N. Bromley not only successfully played, but also staged performances based on the works by A.P. Chekhov, A. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, F. Schiller, and W. Shakespeare.Boris Mikhailovich Sushkevich, brought up by the Theater School of the Moscow Art Academic Theatre and in the Vakhtangov tradition of the playing grotesque, is one of the most interesting and original theater directors of his time. His directorial work in the play “The Cricket on the Hearth” based on a Christmas fairy tale by Charles Dickens became the hallmark of the 1st Studio (and later of the Moscow Art Academic Theatre II as well). This play remained in the theatre’s repertoire until January 1936. B. Sushkevich was a recognized theatre teacher — with his help, the Leningrad Theater Institute (now the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts) was established in 1939. Together with N. Bromley, he managed to fill the New Theater with bright creative content and make it a favorite of the Leningrad audience.This research expands the understanding of a number of yet unexplored aspects of the history of theater in our country and recreates the event context of the era.
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Sperrazza, Tyler. "Equity in Black theatre history classrooms." Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance 10, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 105–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/peet_00023_7.
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This article reflects on the experiences of a white male faculty teaching Black theatre history at a predominantly white institution. It views the Black theatre history classroom as a potential haven for theatre students of colour, and highlights the critical role of a white faculty member in honouring and protecting that space. It argues for the importance of self-reflection and humility on the part of white faculty as we engage with topics surrounding Black history. This piece references the traditional power dynamics between students and faculty, and reimagines those power dynamics when white faculty members teach Black theatre history to Black students. In our current moment of racial upheaval and reckoning within the rehearsal rooms and on our stages, this reflection contends that we must also examine the ways in which our pedagogy in Black theatre history can be actively antiracist. Ultimately, this piece advocates that white faculty work to de-centre their own whiteness in their theatre history classrooms and commit to humility and a willingness to learn from their students of colour.
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Fassler, Christopher T., and Andre Lascombes. "Tudor Theatre: Allegory in the Theatre." Sixteenth Century Journal 33, no. 2 (2002): 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4143975.
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Lybo, O. L. "Characteristics of Kharkiv theatre development in1840–1860’s (on the materials of State Archive of the Kharkiv Region)." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 51, no. 51 (October 3, 2018): 126–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-51.07.
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Problem statement. In this study, attention is focused on the Kharkiv theatre development in the 1940–1960’s, the activities of the theatrical entrepreneur Liudvih Mlotkovskyi and the directors of the Kharkov Theatre: Hendrikov, Alferaki, Petrovskyi, Lvov and Shcherbyna. The theatre directors served as intermediaries between the entrepreneur and the Provincial Offices authorities, while addressing issues of organization and contract negotiation with actors, maintenance of theatre premises. They played an important role on repertoire policies controlled with the censorship committee of the Tsar Russia. Research and publications. The subject of Kharkiv theatre as a part of Ukrainian theatre history development in noted period was highlighted in XIX century by the famous writer, literary critic, culture and public activist Hrigoriy Kvitka-Osnovianenko and by Mykola Cherniaiev – a journalist, literary and theatre critic, reviewer of the newspaper “Yuzhnyi krai” (one of the largest provincial newspapers of the XIX century), where his articles about history of theatre organization in Kharkiv was published. In the XX century this period is covered by famous theatre critics: Alexander Klinchin (in the monographs about the Ukrainian theatre prominent figures Mykhailo Shchepkin, Mykola Rybakov, Liubov Mlotkovska), Arkadii Pletniov (in the study “At the origin of the Kharkiv theatre”), Rostyslav Pylypchuk (in “Materials about the Ukrainian theatre history. From the foundation to the beginning of the twentieth century”), Yu. Polyakova (in numerous publications and the preface to M. Cherniaiev’s book “From Kharkiv’s theatrical antiquity”); ethnographers Andrii Paramonov, Volodymyr Titar (in “The materials for the Kharkiv Theatre history of 1780–1934”). The objective of this study is to attempt to supplement the scientific research of famous theatrical scholars (primarily A. Pletnov and M. Cherniaiev) with materials that were found in the Kharkiv region State Archives. The main material. Entrepreneur Liudvig Mlotkovskyi, who headed the Kharkiv theatre from the autumn of 1834 to the spring of 1843, played a significant role in the theatre history of above mentioned period. In 1839 Mlotkovskyi was allocated a piece of land in Kharkiv free of charge to build a theatre. The first stone building of the theater for 1020 seats was opened in 1841. Furthermore, the land was allocated to Mlotkovskyi’s ownership, he was obliged to comply with some terms among which was compulsory that the theatre director was appointed by the governor. As the first director of the new theatre the Count Hendrikov Oleksandr Ivanovych (1806–1881) was elected and approved. Unfortunately, no materials or documents about Hendrikov’s activity in the theatre were found. However, it is known that during the time of his directorship, due to difficulties and debts, the entrepreneur Mlotkovskyi left Kharkiv. The theatre’s premises were first leased to touring troupes (companies), and in 1853, Mlotkovsky donated it to his daughter, the dramatic actress Vera Liudvygovna Mlotkovska-Diukova. Thus, further theatrical activities in Kharkiv were connected with the Diukov’s entrepreneurial family and the managers of the theatre: Alferaki, Petrovskyi, Lviv and Shcherbyna. They faced the difficult task of theatre revival and getting back its fame. Mykola Dmytrovych Alferaki (1815–1860), Collegia Advisor, a nobleman, held the post from 1845 to 1849. As the director, he paid the debts and additionally invested his own money for the theatre development and improvement. From 1849 to 1856 Engineer-Lieutenant Colonel Petrovskyi was the director of the theater. Archival materials describing Petrovskyi’s directorship were located. He tried to save the situation by means of more democratic drama repertoire that was interesting for general public. Mykhailo PavlovychLvov (1819–1867) was the next theatre director appointed. He was an architect, the member of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, the professor of Kharkiv University. Lvov purchased costumes, scenery, and library; he spent some money to restore the theatre premises. In addition to being in charge of the Kharkiv Theatre, Lvov rented Poltava Theatre and the railway station for 8 years. What his administration was like is not definitely known, but he served as the director to 1857. At the end of 1850’s and beginning of 1860’s the post of the theatre director was taken up by an experienced entrepreneur Ivan Oleksandrovych Shcherbyna (1821–1869). He had the theatre boxes reconstructed, started a permanent ballet company that worked in the theater for 3 years, alternating ballet performances with spectacles of touring companies and the permanent drama troupe stage enters. The time of Shcherbyna directorship at the Kharkiv Drama Theatre appeared to be the most favourable for the Ukrainian repertoire, when along with Russian drama products the plays by Ukrainian authors were staged, such as I. P. Kotliarevskyi, H. F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, D. Dmytrenko etc. Conclusions. Basing on previously published studies of famous theatre critics and ethnographers and attempting to combine the results of their research with the materials found in Kharkiv State regional archive we conclude: Kharkiv was one of the provincial theatre art centers in the XIX century. Not only theatrical entrepreneurs, but also provincial authorities took part in theatre formation and development. The latters tried to control the repertoire policy through the theatre directors appointed by them. Despite the discouraging conditions connected with the difficulties and censorship oppression some progressive theatre directors, such as Petrovskyi and Shcherbyna, ignored the bans and staged prohibited by censorship dramas. It happened not only for the sake of commercial benefits, but also because the banned drama pieces were the most interesting for the general population, it were modern, democratic and satisfied the needs of the audience. This study does not claim to be complete. Its objectives are to combine some historical finds with modern researches about Kharkiv theatre development, and partly fill in the gaps relating to the activity of the entrepreneurs and directors who headed the Kharkiv theatre in 1840–1860s; the work in this direction will continued.
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Saro, Anneli. "Mobility and Theatre: Theatre Makers as Nomadic Subjects." Nordic Theatre Studies 27, no. 1 (May 12, 2015): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v27i1.24242.
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This article discusses the pros and cons of theatrical mobility, investigating situ- ations where theatre is breaking its traditional practices of being local and urban by becoming mobile, international and rural. The main features in this context are guest performances at home and abroad, the importation of guest directors, performers, designers et cetera, and finally, site-specific and open-air productions. The structure of the analysis is based on these features, partly derived from the historical development of theatre but partly also from the aim of contrary thinking, insisting that contrary to the widespread assumption of nomadism as something indigenous or postmodern, nomadic attitudes can also be detected in quite traditional forms of theatre making and living. While touring at home and abroad provides opportunities for theatre makers to practice nomadic life style, summer theatre creates an opportunity for spectators to experience nomadism in more local spaces. The above mentioned features are analysed in the context of Estonian theatre, drawing occasional parallels with the neighbouring country of Finland. Each section goes through three periods of Estonian theatre history; 1) the period before the Second World War when theatres belonged to societies; 2) the period between 1940 and 1991 when Estonia was a part of the Soviet Union and all theatrical activities were subject to state control; 3) the period of independence and globalization. Since each period had a different imprint on theatrical mobility, the phenomenon will be investigated in relation to the political, social and cultural contexts, using Bruno Latour’s concept of actor-network-theory as a methodological tool.
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Ley, Graham. "Towards a Theoretical History for Greek Tragedy." New Theatre Quarterly 31, no. 2 (April 28, 2015): 144–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x15000251.
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Greek tragedy and its theatre have regularly been drawn into modern theoretical formulas about the nature of theatre making, in proposals which have often had their own cause to plead, but which have still been influential on broadly formed views of the theatre in its history. In this essay, Graham Ley argues that much incidental misrepresentation can be found in this kind of writing alongside the occasional remarkable insight, and that the attention given in modern theory to the Greek theatre is generally inadequate. The theorists discussed are Isadora Duncan, Brecht, Boal, and Hans-Thies Lehmann, with examples also taken from performance theory. Ley then goes on to examine what kind of theoretical view of the ancient Greek theatre would be most appropriate today, and offers a vision of it as a dynamic and innovative environment, looking in this second part of the essay at what can be said of early choric tragedy, of the emergence of the actor, and of the innovation of the dramatic scene building. Graham Ley has written essays on various topics over the years for New Theatre Quarterly, but this is his first piece for the journal on his specialist subject, the performance of ancient Greek tragedy.