Guest Post

The Canon of European Theater / Canone teatrale europeo

The Canon of European Theater / Canone teatrale europeo

The guest author of this post is S. E. Gontarski. He is the editor of “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” published in 2014, and the Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. The idea of a literary canon is generally anathema to most Anglo-American scholars, at least since the critical and theoretical revolutions […]

Guest Post

Theatre and/as Adaptation

Theatre and/as Adaptation

The guest author of this post is S. E. Gontarski. He is the editor of “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” published in 2014, and the Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. Although he was savvy enough to warn his French publisher of “this adaptation business” as requests for English language rights for […]

Guest Post

The Fuzzy Edges of Contemporary Theater

The Fuzzy Edges of Contemporary Theater

  Theater has always been mercurial if not chimeric, a hybrid of art forms. It is unstable and pliable by definition, since its realization relies on a multiplicity of collaborators under unstable, often tenuous conditions. The result is invariably a composite beast, reconfigured in each iteration.  Unsurprisingly, then, theater today has fuzzy edges – indeed, […]

Author Interview

Interview with Magda Romanska, author of “The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor”

Interview with Magda Romanska, author of “The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor”

The following is an interview with Magda Romanska, author of “The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor: History and Holocaust in ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’” This book is a historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, examining the ways they represent Auschwitz in their respective pivotal works ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead […]