Selim Lander* Résumé : Le personnage éponyme de la pièce Hedda Gabler, le chef d’œuvre d’Ibsen, a donné lieu à d’innombrables exégèses. Il n’en va pas de même pour les personnages masculins. Or celui d’Eilert Løvborg s’avère problématique à un double
Introduction: The Sky, the Night, and the Glorious Male Voices Karen Fricker* The year 2016 marked the 70th edition of the Festival d’Avignon. In addition to its expected season of productions, the Festival recognized this anniversary with Le ciel, la
Johannes Birringer* The view is blocked. Imagine not necessarily seeing or having seen the goings-on. Thus the following essay should not be considered a review of performances, or a theory of the difficulty of hearing/understanding, but mostly a series of
John Elsom* I knew Martin Esslin. We were friends and colleagues, although he was of an older generation, and I reviewed his book, The Theatre of the Absurd, in London Magazine, when it was published in 1961. But we sometimes