Performing Arts Journal articles from January 1993

Performing Arts Journal archives from January 1993

Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights. (Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany and Alice Tully Hall, New York, New York)
January 1, 1993... DOCTOR FAUSTUS LIGHTS the Lights has an immaculate pedigree in the American theatrical avant-garde. Although originally written as an opera libretto on the eve of World War II, in 1938, Gertrude Stein's text was first performed in the United...

The Malady of Death. (Schaubuhne, Berlin, Germany)
January 1, 1993... IN BETWEEN THE spectacles that Robert Wilson mounts in the United States, he relaxes with smaller European projects that rarely acquire enough glamor to prompt American producers to import them. That's a pity, for these precise, perfect...

Orlando. (Schaubuhne, Berlin, Germany)
January 1, 1993... IT WAS INARGUABLY an inspired aesthetic convergence, the meeting of Robert Wilson and Virginia Woolf, when the former decided to adapt for the stage his predecessor's fanciful mock-biography Orlando. Whether or not the choice was Wilson's,...

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets. (Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany)
January 1, 1993... THERE IS A remarkable dialectic between what many regard as the enthusiastic reception Robert Wilson's folk operas have received in Europe, particularly in Germany and France, and the cool reception his works have received in the United...

Don Juan Ultimo. (Teatro Maria Guerrero, Madrid, Spain)
January 1, 1993... . . . AND IN SPAIN, too? That is a question any skeptic observing the international and intercontinental spread of Robert Wilson's directorial work might well ask. Isn't his feverish creative energy and productivity wasted in a kind of...

Danton's Death. (Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas)(A Robert Wilson Retrospective)
January 1, 1993... IN POSTMODERN FASHION Robert Wilson's interculturalism is unpredictable and noncommittal. However, it would be difficult not to notice that in the last two decades his work has been produced predominantly in Germany, and also inspired by the...

Parsifal. (Houston Grand Opera, Houston, Texas)
January 1, 1993... PLANS TO DIRECT Wagner's last music drama were made by Wilson as early as 1981, the year in which he would embark on his most ambitious project to date, the global 12-hour opera the CIVIL warS. a tree is best measured when it is down,...

The Forest. (Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin, Germany and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York)
January 1, 1993... The Forest Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin (1988) Brooklyn Academy of Music IN THE TWENTY-FIVE years since he first began a life in art, Robert Wilson has created an extraordinary amount of works in theatre, opera, video, furniture design,...

Robert Wilson and the idea of the archive: dramaturgy as an ecology. (A Robert Wilson Retrospective)
January 1, 1993... The Forest Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin (1988) Brooklyn Academy of Music IN THE TWENTY-FIVE years since he first began a life in art, Robert Wilson has created an extraordinary amount of works in theatre, opera, video, furniture design,...

Robert Wilson's vision. (A Robert Wilson Retrospective)
January 1, 1993... ALTHOUGH SOME OF Wilson's designs and theatre props have infrequently been shown at galleries or collected by major museums in Europe and the U.S., it has been almost a decade since the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati first explored...

Robert Wilson and Umberto Eco: a conversation. (A Robert Wilson Retrospective) (Interview)
January 1, 1993... In November 1991 the Centre Pompidou presented an exhibition of Robert Wilson's furniture/sculpture work and videos. His conversation with Umberto Eco appeared in the catalogue printed for the event. It's always silly to ask an author,...

Penciling and erasing Mallarme's "Ballets." (Stephane Mallarme's 1886 essay)
January 1, 1993... BETWEEN 1886 AND 1897, Stephane Mallarme wrote a series of theatre reviews, newspaper articles later collected under the title Crayonne au theatre (Penciled at the Theatre), that have long been dismissed as more "frivolous" and less relevant...

Ballets.
January 1, 1993... LA CORNALBA RAVISHES me, who dances as if undressed; that is to say that without apparent assistance offered to her rising or falling by a presence flying and drowsed in tulle, she appears, called into the air, to sustain herself there, by...

Nostalgia for Soviet theatre - is there hope for the future?
January 1, 1993... FOR THE RESIDENTS of the former USSR, the past seven years were not only a time of historical tremors and cataclysms that no one could have predicted--the unification of Germany and the break up of the Soviet Union--but one of a shift in...