Author: Tom Sellar
Publisher: Theater (Duke)
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This issue of Theater features a special section dedicated to the first English translation of Adelheid Roosens critically acclaimed and sensational play The Veiled Monologues. Premiering in the Netherlands amid death threats due to its controversial and sexual content, The Veiled Monologues is based on Roosens interviews with hundreds of Muslim women from around the world who emigrated to the Netherlands. The monologues, delivered onstage by Dutch Muslim actresses, powerfully reveal the challenges for Muslim women as they contend with issues of intimacy, sexuality, and love across complicated cultural and political divides. The issue also explores other artistic encounters between the Muslim world and the West and how individual theater practitioners and productions have recently attempted to bridge cultural conflicts. In addition to the full text of The Veiled Monologues, an introductory essay discusses the plays early production in the Netherlands, situating the project in the context of the countrys explosive debates over immigration and assimilation following the 2003 assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Also included is a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding the New York production of My Name Is Rachel Corriea play based on the life of the U.S. peace activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozerone of the most fiercely contested subjects of recent theater seasons. The issue also features British director Andrew Steggalls account of his journey into Iraq in 2004 to mount a production of Stravinskys The Soldiers Tale with a cast of British and Iraqi actors and musicians. This account examines the trials, tribulations, and rewards of creating art in the midstof violence and political chaos. Contributors: Arnold Aronson, Joseph P. Cermatori, Jason Fitzgerald, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Stanley Kauffmann, Marina Kotzamani, Gordon
The Veiled Monologues Special Section
Author: Tom Sellar
Publisher: Theater (Duke)
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This issue of Theater features a special section dedicated to the first English translation of Adelheid Roosens critically acclaimed and sensational play The Veiled Monologues. Premiering in the Netherlands amid death threats due to its controversial and sexual content, The Veiled Monologues is based on Roosens interviews with hundreds of Muslim women from around the world who emigrated to the Netherlands. The monologues, delivered onstage by Dutch Muslim actresses, powerfully reveal the challenges for Muslim women as they contend with issues of intimacy, sexuality, and love across complicated cultural and political divides. The issue also explores other artistic encounters between the Muslim world and the West and how individual theater practitioners and productions have recently attempted to bridge cultural conflicts. In addition to the full text of The Veiled Monologues, an introductory essay discusses the plays early production in the Netherlands, situating the project in the context of the countrys explosive debates over immigration and assimilation following the 2003 assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Also included is a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding the New York production of My Name Is Rachel Corriea play based on the life of the U.S. peace activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozerone of the most fiercely contested subjects of recent theater seasons. The issue also features British director Andrew Steggalls account of his journey into Iraq in 2004 to mount a production of Stravinskys The Soldiers Tale with a cast of British and Iraqi actors and musicians. This account examines the trials, tribulations, and rewards of creating art in the midstof violence and political chaos. Contributors: Arnold Aronson, Joseph P. Cermatori, Jason Fitzgerald, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Stanley Kauffmann, Marina Kotzamani, Gordon
Publisher: Theater (Duke)
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This issue of Theater features a special section dedicated to the first English translation of Adelheid Roosens critically acclaimed and sensational play The Veiled Monologues. Premiering in the Netherlands amid death threats due to its controversial and sexual content, The Veiled Monologues is based on Roosens interviews with hundreds of Muslim women from around the world who emigrated to the Netherlands. The monologues, delivered onstage by Dutch Muslim actresses, powerfully reveal the challenges for Muslim women as they contend with issues of intimacy, sexuality, and love across complicated cultural and political divides. The issue also explores other artistic encounters between the Muslim world and the West and how individual theater practitioners and productions have recently attempted to bridge cultural conflicts. In addition to the full text of The Veiled Monologues, an introductory essay discusses the plays early production in the Netherlands, situating the project in the context of the countrys explosive debates over immigration and assimilation following the 2003 assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Also included is a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding the New York production of My Name Is Rachel Corriea play based on the life of the U.S. peace activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozerone of the most fiercely contested subjects of recent theater seasons. The issue also features British director Andrew Steggalls account of his journey into Iraq in 2004 to mount a production of Stravinskys The Soldiers Tale with a cast of British and Iraqi actors and musicians. This account examines the trials, tribulations, and rewards of creating art in the midstof violence and political chaos. Contributors: Arnold Aronson, Joseph P. Cermatori, Jason Fitzgerald, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Stanley Kauffmann, Marina Kotzamani, Gordon
Special Section, Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service
Author: Graham Bradshaw
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An annual survey of important issues and new developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies, with contributors appraising or reappraising current thinking on such diverse topics as scepticism, ethnicity, performance, theatrical and textual practices, and translations or adaptations.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An annual survey of important issues and new developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies, with contributors appraising or reappraising current thinking on such diverse topics as scepticism, ethnicity, performance, theatrical and textual practices, and translations or adaptations.
The Vagina Monologues
Author: Eve Ensler
Publisher: Villard Books
ISBN: 0375505121
Category : Body image in women
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.
Publisher: Villard Books
ISBN: 0375505121
Category : Body image in women
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.
Lifting the Veil
Author: Michael Cover
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110392739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18? While previous scholars have approached this question from a variety of angles, in this monograph, Michael Cover grapples particularly with the evidence of contemporaneous Jewish and Greco-Roman commentary traditions. Through comparison with Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary, the Pseudo-Philonic homilies De Jona and De Sampsone, the Anonymous Theaetetus Commentary, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Seneca's Epistulae morales, and other New Testament texts, Paul's interpretation of Exodus emerges as part of a wider commentary practice that Cover terms "secondary-level exegesis." This study also provides new analysis of the way ancient authors, including Paul, interwove commentary forms and epistolary rhetoric and offers a reconstruction of the context of Paul's conflict with rival apostles in Corinth. At root was the legacy of Moses and of the Pentateuch itself, how the scriptures ought to be read, and how Platonizing theological and anthropological traditions might be interwoven with Paul's messianic gospel.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110392739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18? While previous scholars have approached this question from a variety of angles, in this monograph, Michael Cover grapples particularly with the evidence of contemporaneous Jewish and Greco-Roman commentary traditions. Through comparison with Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary, the Pseudo-Philonic homilies De Jona and De Sampsone, the Anonymous Theaetetus Commentary, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Seneca's Epistulae morales, and other New Testament texts, Paul's interpretation of Exodus emerges as part of a wider commentary practice that Cover terms "secondary-level exegesis." This study also provides new analysis of the way ancient authors, including Paul, interwove commentary forms and epistolary rhetoric and offers a reconstruction of the context of Paul's conflict with rival apostles in Corinth. At root was the legacy of Moses and of the Pentateuch itself, how the scriptures ought to be read, and how Platonizing theological and anthropological traditions might be interwoven with Paul's messianic gospel.
Oral Performance and the Veil of Text
Author: Ben F. van Veen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666762970
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex relation between this formally acknowledged functioning in its original oral delivery and the daily praxis of biblical scholarship in which these documents function as autonomous texts in an ever-expanding universe of texts. The argument in this book is that in addition to acknowledging the difference in media (oral performance there and then versus reading text here and now), it is crucial to differentiate and explicate the mindsets behind these media. A literate reader in the present structures thought, vis-a-vis text, differently from someone intensively formed by oral-aural communication, in the moment of exposure to a performing orator. The latter perspective was Paul's in the process of his letter composition. Therefore, this is a leading question in detextification: How can a contemporary biblical scholar relate to the text of Paul's letters in such a way as to understand how the apostle envisioned his original addressees structuring their thoughts during the event of a letter's oral-aural delivery? Two test cases are provided from the Letter to the Galatians (Gal 2-3).
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666762970
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex relation between this formally acknowledged functioning in its original oral delivery and the daily praxis of biblical scholarship in which these documents function as autonomous texts in an ever-expanding universe of texts. The argument in this book is that in addition to acknowledging the difference in media (oral performance there and then versus reading text here and now), it is crucial to differentiate and explicate the mindsets behind these media. A literate reader in the present structures thought, vis-a-vis text, differently from someone intensively formed by oral-aural communication, in the moment of exposure to a performing orator. The latter perspective was Paul's in the process of his letter composition. Therefore, this is a leading question in detextification: How can a contemporary biblical scholar relate to the text of Paul's letters in such a way as to understand how the apostle envisioned his original addressees structuring their thoughts during the event of a letter's oral-aural delivery? Two test cases are provided from the Letter to the Galatians (Gal 2-3).
All You Can Eat
Author: Joel Berg
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1583229787
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as American as apple pie, and shows what it is like when your income is not enough to cover rising housing and living costs and put food on the table. Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; and the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare. He challenges the new president to confront the most unthinkable result of US poverty—hunger—and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good. A spirited call to action, All You Can Eat shows how practical solutions for hungry Americans will ultimately benefit America's economy and all of its citizens.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1583229787
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as American as apple pie, and shows what it is like when your income is not enough to cover rising housing and living costs and put food on the table. Berg takes to task politicians who remain inactive; the media, which ignores hunger except during holidays and hurricanes; and the food industry, which makes fattening, artery-clogging fast food more accessible to the nation's poor than healthy fare. He challenges the new president to confront the most unthinkable result of US poverty—hunger—and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good. A spirited call to action, All You Can Eat shows how practical solutions for hungry Americans will ultimately benefit America's economy and all of its citizens.
The Veil
Author: Walter De la Mare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Lives in Play
Author: Ryan Claycomb
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118404
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118404
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
Greatest Works of George Eliot Part I : Brother Jacob/The Lifted Veil /Romola/Adam Bede/
Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Brother Jacob The Lifted Veil : George Eliot's Best Classic Horror Thrillers Romola Adam Bede
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Brother Jacob The Lifted Veil : George Eliot's Best Classic Horror Thrillers Romola Adam Bede
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work
Author: Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135858438
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This book redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural performance. Ultimately, this study reassesses the meanings of intercultural embodiment onstage.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135858438
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This book redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural performance. Ultimately, this study reassesses the meanings of intercultural embodiment onstage.