Playing with Documentary Theatre: Aalst and Taking Care of Baby

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Documentary Theatre ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
Documentary Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq ◽  
Taking Care

The coinings of ‘verbatim theatre’ and the ‘testimony play’ have added new factors to any consideration of documentary drama. It is a form that has been proliferating recently, whether in enacted judgements of public policy – privatization of the railways in David Hare's The Permanent Way, the invasion of Iraq in Called to Account at the Tricycle – or in exploring the ‘truth’ about more private issues. In the following article, Stuart Young questions whether the form is appropriate to the discovery of such ‘truth’, but finds that two recent works in the genre, Aalst and Taking Care of Baby, have effected a more complex and reflexive intervention by emphasizing the process of writing or reporting, thereby drawing attention to the methods of construction in documentary theatre and to the problematic issues inherent in those methods. Stuart Young is Associate Professor and Co-ordinator of the Theatre Studies programme at the University of Otago. He has published on Chekhov in performance abroad and rewritings of the plays, New Zealand drama, and gay and queer theatre, and also translates Russian and French drama. He is currently working on a documentary theatre project on family violence in New Zealand.

A Saturated Time: Three Festivals in Poland, 2007

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-321
Author(s):  
Murray Edmond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Special Time

What different kinds of festival are to be found on the ever-expanding international circuit? What companies are invited or gatecrash the events? What is the role of festivals and festival-going in a global theatrical economy? In this article Murray Edmond describes three festivals which he attended in Poland in the summer of 2007 – the exemplary Malta Festival, held in Poznan; the Warsaw Festival of Street Performance; and the Brave Festival (‘Against Cultural Exile’) in Wroclaw – and through an analysis of specific events and productions suggests ways of distinguishing and assessing their aims, success, and role in what Barthes called the ‘special time’ which festivals have occupied since the Ancient Greeks dedicated such an occasion to Dionysus. Murray Edmond is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His recent publications include Noh Business (Berkeley: Atelos Press, 2005), a study, via essay, diary, and five short plays, of the influence of Noh theatre on the Western avant-garde, and articles in Contemporary Theatre Review (2006), Australasian Drama Studies (April 2007), and Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition (2007). He works professionally as a dramaturge, notably for Indian Ink Theatre Company, and has also published ten volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is Fool Moon (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004).

Doppio: a Trilingual Touring Theatre for Australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (29) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Tony Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
Documentary Theatre ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Dario Fo ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Youth Theatre ◽  
The University

Doppio is a theatre company which uses three languages – English, Italian, and a synthetic migrant dialect it calls ‘Emigrante’ – to explore the conditions of the large community of Italian migrants in Australia. It works, too, in three different kinds of theatrical territory, all with an increasingly feminist slant – those of multicultural theatrein-education; of community theatre based in the Italian clubs of South Australia; and of documentary theatre, exploring the roots and the past of a previously marginalized social group. The company's work was seen in 1990 at the Leeds Festival of Youth Theatre, but its appeal is fast increasing beyond the confines of specialisms, ethnic or theatric, and being recognized in the ‘mainstream’ of Australian theatrical activity. Tony Mitchell – a regular contributor to NTQ, notably on the work of Dario Fo – who presently teaches in the Department of Theatre Studies in the University of Technology in Sydney, here provides an analytical introduction to the company's work, and follows this with an interview with one of its directors and co-founders, Teresa Crea.

scholarly journals Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Wevers ◽  
Richard Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
The University

This issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies has been edited by Anna Green, who is the new staff member at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.  Wellknown as an oral historian and formerly of Waikato University, Associate Professor Green comes to us from the University of Exeter, and we are delighted to welcome her as a new colleague as well as the editor of the JNZS.  She brings enormous experience and expertise to the role.

‘Yours Neutrally, Habitational Action’: Performance between Theatre and Dance

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-263
Author(s):  
Frank Camilleri
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Actor Training ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The Cross ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director

A milestone development in a practice-as-research investigation led to the identification of ‘habitational action’ as a term that resists a priori restrictions of inner–outer problematics when discussing performer processes. In this article Frank Camilleri cross-references the term with ‘neutral action’ to locate it conceptually and historically; first with Jacques Lecoq's pedagogical mask work, and then with Yvonne Rainer's conceptualization of the ‘neutral doer’. The cross-referencing to specific theatre and dance contexts is also intended to problematize psychophysicality as a central aspect of current actor training discourse. Frank Camilleri is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Artistic Director of Icarus Performance Project. In 2007 he co-founded Icarus Publishing with Odin Teatret and the Grotowski Institute. He is also Visiting Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield.

Giorgio Strehler's Faust Project: Signification and Reception Strategies

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (35) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Christopher Balme
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Giorgio Strehler ◽  
Theatre Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In the ten years between 1982, when Giorgio Strehler announced his intention to stage both parts of Goethe's Faust over six evenings, and the eventual two-evening performance amidst a ‘Faust Festival’ in 1992, the Faust project underwent a series of modifications and manifestations, in parallel with the struggle to create the Teatro Grande in Milan as a new house for the Piccolo. The progress and realization of the project are here charted by Christopher Balme, who not only describes the work processes involved, but how these became enmeshed both in the politics of Strehler's relations with the city of Milan, and with his own identification, as actor of Faust as well as director of the project, with the role of the hubristic artist, in quest of a climax to a controversial career. Christopher Balme is a lecturer in theatre studies at the University of Munich's Instituttür Theaterwissenschaft. He has published on modern German theatre, theatre theory, and post-colonial drama and theatre. He has previously held posts at the University of Würzburg, and was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Theatre Studies at Munich University. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Theatre and Film at Victoria University in New Zealand.

scholarly journals The "Greening the Ivory Towers" Project: The University of Auckland case study

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (427-429) ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
T. W. Fookes ◽  
Alison Hall ◽  
Logan Whitelaw
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
World Society ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Presentation ◽  
The University

Dr Tom Fookes is an Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of the Wortd Society for Ekistics and a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics. He arranged an undergraduate Bachelor of Planning student project on Greening University Campuses with the students travelling to Toronto for the Natural City Symposion where they reported on their work with posters and in a formal presentation. The principal student presenters were Alison Hall and Logan Whitelaw in conjunction with Nicola Bishop, LLoyd Johnston, Karen Kao, and Michelle Lee, Bplan students in the Department of Planning, University of Auckland. The text that follows is based on a PowerPoint presentation at the international symposion, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1046-1047
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Road ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The University

Cecilia Conrad of Pomona College reviews “Mother’s Work and Children’s Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform” by Rucker C. Johnson, Ariel Kalil, Rachel E. Dunifon,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the effects of welfare reform in the United States on the work-family balance of women and the effects of this balance on the lives of children. Discusses the road to welfare reform; the Women’s Employment Study--context and content; and the effect of low-income mothers’ employment on children. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Kalil is Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Dunifon is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Management at Cornell University. Index.”

Inverting the Formula: Devising through Adaptation

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-253
Author(s):  
Frank Camilleri
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director

Adaptation in contemporary performance takes on different forms and engages various strategies. In this article, Frank Camilleri explores the subject in terms of compositional devising via his practice as research in the area. He considers adaptation as a process of adjustment and modification that occurs at the level of format or organization, and which results from a change in context. He proposes terminological and structural frameworks, namely types, movements, modes, and phases of adaption. These taxonomies are then subsequently exemplified through three case studies from the author's performance and pedagogical work. Frank Camilleri is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta, where he is Director of the School of Performing Arts and leads P21 (Performance 21), the research centre for Twenty-first Century Studies in Performance. He is Artistic Director of Icarus Performance Project and co-edits the Routledge/Icarus ‘Theatre as a Laboratory’ series.

The Pagan-Christian Admixture in Romeo Castellucci's Oedipus the Tyrant

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Keld Hyldig
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Tear Gas ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Film Projection

In 2015, the Italian director Romeo Castellucci presented Oedipus the Tyrant at the Schaubühne in Berlin. His staging was based on the German poet-philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin's translation of 1804, which is known for its peculiar linguistic, philosophical, and theatrical approaches to Greek tragedy. In this article Keld Hyldig examines how Castellucci, in a response to Hölderlin's translation and commentaries on the tragedy, staged Oedipus as a theatrical and philosophical confrontation between religious and rational approaches to knowledge. The staging was seemingly simple, showing a group of nuns performing Oedipus in a monastery. However, the nuns’ Christian and feminine performance of the pagan and masculine tragedy was the basis of a metatheatrical complexity, which was reinforced through a film projection showing Romeo Castellucci getting tear gas sprayed in his eyes, making the relation between physical reality and fictional representation problematic. Keld Hyldig is an Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen. He has published several articles about the Ibsen tradition in Norwegian theatre and is currently working on a monograph on that subject.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University

Tara Watson of Williams College reviews “Legacies of the War on Poverty”, by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Ten papers analyze the economic legacies of the War on Poverty fifty years after its declaration, focusing on the policies and programs that were designed to promote more equal opportunities and increase income. Papers discuss legacies of the war on poverty (Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger); Head Start origins and impacts (Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller); the K-12 education battle (Elizabeth Cascio); supporting access to higher education (Bridget Terry Long); workforce development programs (Harry J. Holzer); the safety net for families with children (Jane Waldfogel); the safety net for the elderly (Kathleen McGarry); performance and legacy of housing policies (Edgar O. Olsen and Jens Ludwig); health programs for non-elderly adults and children (Barbara Wolfe); and Medicare and Medicaid (Katherine Swartz). Bailey is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan, Faculty Affiliate of the National Poverty Center, and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center. Danziger is H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and Director of the National Poverty Center in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.”

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