TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from June 1999

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from June 1999

Jerzy Grotowski 1933-1999.(Obituary)
June 22, 1999... "I Do Not Put on a Play in Order to Teach Others What I Already Know" On 15 January 1999, Jerzy Grotowski passed from activity into history. The day after he died they phoned me, some journalists, to ask if Grotowski was "important to...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 1999... The TDR Volume 42 Index, printed in T160, did not include the article "Camp Out: DIWA Arts and the Bayanihan Spirit" by Lydia Matthews, which appeared in the Winter 1998 issue of TDR (42, 4 [T160]). Our apologies to the author.

Untitled Text by Jerzy Grotowski, Signed in Pontedera, Italy, July 4, 1998.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... According to the wish of Jerzy Grotowski this text is published posthumously. It is possible that the end of my life approaches. I should like first of all to rectify an information which leads to a false understanding of the work of the...

Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and Action.(theatrical directors)(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... The following is a text of information of the Workcenter occasionally given to individuals before they witness the creative opus Action. In 1986 the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski is founded, at the invitation of the Centro per la...

Kabuki and Shakespeare.(Japanese theater)
June 22, 1999... Balancing Yin and Yang During most of kabuki's history, performance can be characterized by what I will call here a "balance of yin and yang." We find reciprocal stability and change, the known and the unknown side-by-side, and the old...

Gicandi and the Reemergence of Suppressed Words(1).
June 22, 1999... A people denied the ability to name themselves, their own experiences, and in a language native to their very souls, their secret selves, is a people degraded to the state of shadows, shadows of other selves. --Kofi Anyidoho (1992:54)...

Kenyan Theatre after Kamiriithu.
June 22, 1999... Using the term "language" as a metaphor for both form and content, Ngugi wa Thiong'o presents the Kamiriithu popular theatre experiment as an effort to evolve an authentic language of African theatre (1986:34-62) and as the first meaningful...

The Role of Izangoma in Bringing the Zulu Goddess Back to Her People.
June 22, 1999... Where there are humans there will be gods and where there are gods there will be ritual. The urge for it is deeply embedded in the psychic matrix of humanity, and, being part of psyche, it behaves as if it will go on living. Ritual does not...

Presenting and Re-Presenting the Self.(African theater)
June 22, 1999... From Not-Acting to Acting in African Performance What is universal in performance is the consciousness of performance. --Herbert Blau (1990:259) Introduction This article forms part of a wider study of the performer in...

Transgressing Boundaries.(tourism)
June 22, 1999... Postmodern Performance and the Tourist Trap Recent research has seen a proliferation of academic interest in the role of the tourist. This work has been concerned not only with the economic and social consequences of tourism itself, but...

American Women Playwrights: 1900-1950.(Review)
June 22, 1999... American Women Playwrights: 1900-1950. By Yvonne Sharer. New York: Peter Lang, 1994; 546 pp. $34.95 paper. If, as Susan Harris Smith argues (1997), American drama remains a bastard child of American literature, Faye Dudden's Women in the...

Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences 1790-1870.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences 1790-1870. By Faye E. Dudden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994; 260 pp.; 51 illustrations. $37.50 cloth, $16.00 paper. If, as Susan Harris Smith argues (1997), American drama...

Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration & Popular Culture.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration & Popular Culture. Edited by David R. Maciel and Mafia Herrera-Sobek. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998; 268 pp. $16.95. Engaging in Latino studies requires dealing with in/visibility....

Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art and the 1970s.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art and the 1970s. By Kathy O'Dell. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1998; 144 pp.; illustrations. $18.95 paper. During the 1970s, Chris Burden was often lampooned the "Evel...

Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story Desire.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story Desire. By Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996; 372 pp.; illustrations. $59.95 cloth. Susan Leigh Foster's latest history is a welcome addition to dance...