Jeffrey Eric Jenkins* Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common
by Temple Hauptfleisch* The great South African playwright Athol Fugard recently moved to the city of Stellenbosch, the centre of the country’s major wine region and the home of one of South Africa’s leading universities. A short drive from Cape
Ajay Joshi* Every time I sit down to “pen in,” it is invariably after much struggle against “writer’s block.” But when it happens, thoughts and ideas and experiences nudge and jostle to find space in my write-up. Keeping them on
Christine Hamon–Sirejols* Résumé Populisme ou démagogie ? Les orientations de la politique théâtrale française soulèvent depuis quelques années un certain nombre de questions. Tandis que les courants populistes gagnent du terrain dans la vie politique et que le modèle du théâtre
Raymond Zhou* Fantômas: Revenge of the Image. Directed by Travis Preston and co-created by Tom Gunning. Set design by Christopher Barreca and Drew Foster, costume design by EB Brooks, lighting design by Jesse Fryery and Alexander Freer, video design by
Edited by Duška Radosavljević 337 pp. London: Bloomsbury Reviewed by Katerina Delikonstantinidou* (Greece) Of all the scholarly volumes I have recently read and reviewed this is certainly one of the most engaging. Notwithstanding, it took the longest to finish because
Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou* Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki, October 2017 The historical trajectory of the Dimitria Festival, with its origins dating back to the Byzantine era, is impressive, to say the least. The Festival was officially re-established in 1966 and has since etched
Edited by Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu and Yana Meerzon 433 pp. London: Routledge Everything you ever wanted to know (and probably quite a lot more) about Russian actor-director-teacher Michael Chekhov is now to be found in this quite extraordinary volume put together
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Ouvrage de José Gabriel Antuñano, 461 p., Madrid : Éditions ADE Teatro Compte rendu de Irène Sadowska-Guillon* (France/ Espagne) José Gabriel Antuñano, un éminent théâtrologue, professeur de Master de théâtre et des arts scéniques à l’Université de la Rioja et de