TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from March 1995

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from March 1995

Problematizing jargon.(Editorial)
March 22, 1995... Nobody wants to use it, everyone condemns it. Jargon imports already thought ideas and clogs the flow of writing. Jargon marks its users as copycats. Jargon is hard to read, boring, and easy to parody. At TDR we work hard with authors to find...

Disciplines of the text sites of performance.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... What is in fact curious about all these gestures, these angular and abruptly abandoned attitudes, these syncopated modulations formed at the back of the throat, these musical phrases that break off short, these flights of elytra, these...

Responses to W.B. Worthen's "Disciplines of the Text Sites of Performance." (drama criticism; includes bibliographies)(includes an additional statement from W.B. Worthen)
March 22, 1995... Jill Dolan: I'm glad for this chance to respond to Bill Worthen's thoughtful essay, "Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance," because it offers another perspective on a widespread acknowledgement that theatre studies' production of...

Morphing borders: the remanence of MTV.(Includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... We will sing of the multicolored polyphonic tide of revolution in the modern capitals. --F.T. Marinetti ([1909], in Taylor 1979:6) This singing is now commonplace. In the modern capitals as well as small towns it blares at all hours from...

Ngarnna Taikurra in the land of the dreamtime: the 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... Bodies Substantial, Insubstantial Bodies: Sisters of the Colonies Listen Hard Surely the main challenge to Western feminisms today is the reproach that they have not sufficiently attempted to hear other cultures, perhaps because listening...

Jack Warner and Teatro la Fragua: popular theatre in Honduras.(includes interview with Warner and excerpts from various dramatic works)
March 22, 1995... Since its beginning in 1979, Teatro la Fragua has both entertained and instructed audiences throughout Honduras. Founded and directed by Jesuit missionary Jack Warner, the group most often performs adaptations of biblical parables and Central...

Coming home: the new ecology of the Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... Introduction The work of the Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland has twice previously been documented in this journal, most recently in 1987 (TDR 31, 1 [T113]). Since then the company has furthered its reputation abroad: in 1993, for...

Demythologizing Polish theatre.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... Five years ago, in June 1989, Solidarity won a spectacular victory in a parliamentary election. The Polish Communist Party was forced to give up its monopoly on power. Poles embarked on an arduous, often haphazard process of transformation from...

The tradition, reformation and innovation of Huaguxi: Hunan Flower Drum Opera.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... An Officially Unapproved Farmers' Entertainment Traditional Chinese opera--xiqu--is one of the oldest theatrical artforms in the world, with beginnings over two thousand years ago. The form of xiqu best known in the West is Beijing opera, but...

Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America.
March 22, 1995... In 1993 Penguin Books published Charlie Chan Is Dead, an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction edited by Jessica Hagedorn. The collection aims to dismantle a century and a half of the stereotypical inscriptions of Asian Americans as...

On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century.
March 22, 1995... Like a parade, a reunion, a wake, a summit, or a coming out party, C. Carr's On Edge is an occasion. The book brings together the best of those exquisite Carr essays that have salt and peppered the Village Voice for ten years, telling the "Real...

A Cultural History of Gesture.
March 22, 1995... A collection of papers from a 1989 conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, A Cultural History of Gesture defines "gesture" very broadly, as "any kind of bodily movement or posture (including facial expression) which transmits a message to...

Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare.
March 22, 1995... The material culture and cultural material of Tudor and Stuart England provide the contexts for these recent discussions of the popular drama of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Common to all three is a sense of the emergence of the...

Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time.
March 22, 1995... The material culture and cultural material of Tudor and Stuart England provide the contexts for these recent discussions of the popular drama of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Common to all three is a sense of the emergence of the...

Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage.
March 22, 1995... The material culture and cultural material of Tudor and Stuart England provide the contexts for these recent discussions of the popular drama of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Common to all three is a sense of the emergence of the...

Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian.
March 22, 1995... These books solidly illustrate two general categories into which biographies often fall. The first type, demonstrated in Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian, is usually conceived by well-meaning scholars who "discover" a subject. The...

Sorrow is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson.
March 22, 1995... These books solidly illustrate two general categories into which biographies often fall. The first type, demonstrated in Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian, is usually conceived by well-meaning scholars who "discover" a subject. The...

Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1995... The first volume of the Living Theatre Archive published by Harwood Academic Publishers, Theandric, provides an illuminating, if somewhat depressing, sequel to Julian Beck's seminal work about the Living Theatre, The Life of the Theatre (1972)....