scholarly journals Stage text of the musical «Next to normal» in Michael Grief’s production

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (57) ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Jian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Operating Table ◽  
Musical Score ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Parallel Action

Theoretical Background. The concept of stage text is actualized in musical science in the context of a variety of samples of director’s theater, in which the stage decision may dissonant or act as a counterpoint to the original musical (ie compositional) text of the work. Sometimes the musical score is only the starting point for the director’s version. T. Grigoryants (2007), M. Kosilkin (2017), M. Kuklinska (2018; 2020) turn to the analysis of the stage text. Among the parameters that M. Kosilkin draws attention to are psychological types (2017: 85), which are embodied through facial expressions and gestures, plasticity and movements, the appearance of the character; and a set of pictorial means – costumes, objects and decorations. Unlike traditional opera, the director of a Broadway musical of the XXI century (especially on modern plots), as a rule, does not face the problem of modernization of stage means or compliance of the stage solution with the expectations and inertia of the audience. However, within this genre it is important to understand what aesthetic tasks are solved by this or that production and what happens in the dynamics of the stage life of the musical, whether the elements of the stage text are written in the score, or, conversely, the director is required to find a solution. Objectives. The aim is to identify the features of the stage text of the musical «Next to normal» – its main components and functions in relation to the musical score. In accordance with the purpose, such methods are used as comparative (to compare the composer’s and stage texts), structural and functional (to identify individual elements of the stage text and their role in revealing the plot and dramaturgy of the whole). Results and Discussion. Unlike directorial experimentalism in the field of opera, where the score may lose “its leading role, giving way to the leadership of a musical performance” (Kuklinskaya, 2020), the Broadway musical «Next to normal» illustrates the unity of the composer and director who seek to be understood by the public. Last but not least, this is due to the fact that some elements of the plot are so cinematic that they seem to be inaccessible for the implementation of purely musical and stage means. Thus, the stage realization of the image of a ghost, various «flashbacks» (№ 5), the delimitation of frames of parallel action (№ 16), the release of Diana’s consciousness during ECT (№ 18) is extremely difficult. However, the director manages to do it with minimal means, without involving special effects. Among the most important tools for creating stage text are: ● two-level stage with different sectors allows to implement fast spacetime switching while maintaining the dynamics of action and embody the idea of parallel action, a combination of real and imaginaryevents; ● the light – directed to the relevant sector of the scene, emphasizes a particular character or pair of characters, focusing the teacher’s attention on a particular plane of action; another approach – even illumination of different sectors of the scene, aimed at; ● concise props (sandwiches, trash can, candle cake, photo, box) – brings to the surface hidden subtexts and reveals the psychological characteristics of the characters hidden in the musical text, ie performs the function of objectification, specification of certain events; ● gestures – turns of the head and body of the characters indicate their «relationship» with the ghost. Since for Diana he is real, so she always turns to him. The other characters behave as if Gabe is not on the stage, and only at turning points do they begin to see him (Dan in № 37); the idea of flashback (Diana’s memories of her marriage to Dan) – is realized through a gesture – a woman reaches out to hug her husband, but catches the emptiness; ● stage action of the characters and mise-en-scène – excessive gestures and strange movements make Diana go crazy; dance and choreographic elements (Dr. Madden, Diana and Gabe), skating on the operating table (Gabe, doctors) highlight the unreal elements of the plot; the main character’s hugs with Gabe illustrate her choice in favor of a ghostly world over the real one (her husband, Dan); ● scenery – demonstratively minimalistic – it consists of key objects – the dining table symbolizes the Goodman family home, the operating room – the hospital, a comfortable chair – psychotherapy sessions; ● costumes – deserve the least attention of the directors, as the household plot focuses on everyday clothes (jeans, sweater, shirt, etc.); against this background, the dance of Gabe and Diana stands out, where they are both in white (№ 4), which gives the action a hidden subtext; white can also be seen as a symbol of madness (Diana’s shirt in the hospital). Conclusions.In terms of musical content, the production deepens the tragedy of Diana’s image, which is that she chooses a ghostly man instead of a real one. And the relationship between her and her dead son in the stage decision goes beyond the roles of «mother – son» – as evidenced by their dance, kissing hands, hugs, which allow us to consider them as a romantic couple of characters, which in the musical text of the opera is only a hint. Thus, the stage text of the musical «Next to normal» is aimed at concretizing the musical content, working with simple symbols that will be understandable to the public, and on the other– to deepen the content and multifaceted disclosure of the ghost world, hallucinations, mental disorders and madness.

scholarly journals Mis-match Between the Healthy Food and the Ultra-processed Food Classifications in Australia (OR14-03-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Mackerras
Keyword(s):  
Saturated Fat ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Claims ◽  
The Public ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Four Levels

Abstract Objectives Many countries produce guides to healthy food choices for their populations. Healthy food choices are typically based on ensuring micronutrient adequacy while limiting components such as saturated fat, sugar and sodium. It has also been proposed that the degree of food processing can be used as the criterion for classification either for advice to the public or for making regulatory decisions around which food should be allowed to be voluntarily fortified or carry health claims. This study examined the concordance between two such systems. Methods The food database used to analyze intakes reported in the 2011–12 Australian National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey has been classified by others to identify a) which foods are recommended or ‘discretionary’ in the Guide to Healthy Eating and b) by degree of processing according to the four levels in the NOVA system. The NOVA classifications were collapsed to compare ‘ultra-processed’ foods to the other categories. Results There were 5645 foods in the database after excluding codes used to generate recipes for fortified foods (e.g., vitamins and minerals) and foods added for the 2013 Indigenous wave of the survey. Of the 4014 recommended foods, 23.5% were classed as ultra-processed whereas 31.2% of the discretionary foods were classified as not ultra-processed. In this dataset, nearly one-quarter of the foods would be recommended to the public by one classification but not by the other. Some notable discrepancies were the classification of recommended foods such as margarine and mass produced bread and buns and breakfast cereals as ultra-processed whereas butter, cream, sugar, honey, and homemade cakes, biscuits and jams are not classed as ultra-processed. It should also be noted that the descriptions in classification systems are often imprecisely worded and so some decisions in the two dataset could be debated. Conclusions The survey database serves as a useful starting point to screen possible tools even though it contains averages rather than brand-level information. These two specific classifications do not lead to equivalent advice about which foods to choose. Funding Sources None.

Philosophical in Italy

Philosophy ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 13 (50) ◽  
pp. 209-211
Author(s):  
Guido de Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Italian Translation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Full Independence

In1920 Bignone published an Italian translation of the writings and fragments of Epicurus in Laterza's library of Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophers which in many respects added to and improved upon Usener's classic collection, of Epicurea. He has since then zealously prosecuted these studies, and arrived at some very interesting conclusions which he has given out in two volumes published lately.1 His starting-point is the observation that the writings of Epicurus often have a polemical tone, and not only rebut the accusations of adversaries who misinterpret the new doctrine, but are often directed also against those preceding philosophers who denied to pleasure a stable and certain nature on which a system of ethics could be based. Bignone has set himself the task of particularizing these anonymous predecessors, and thereby bringing the Epicurean polemic into more striking relief. I t was easy and safe to start from the standpoint that Epicurus in his rehabilitation of pleasure had to oppose Plato and the Platonists, but at what Platonists in particular did he take aim? In answering this question Bignone has been able to make use of recent Aristotelian studies, especially those of Jaeger, which have thrown much light on the first phase of the Stagirite's philosophy, of a purely Platonic inspiration. As is well known, some exoteric dialogues belong to this phase, such as the Eudemos, the Protrepticon, and On Philosophy, which have to a large extent disappeared, though it has been found possible to reconstruct a few scattered fragments of them. The great scholastic works which reveal the full independence and maturity of Aristotle's genius have eclipsed them in the memory of posterity. But originally there were only these dialogues, the only ones published, to make Aristotle's thought known to the public outside the peripatetic school. The scholastic writings on the other hand remained unknown until the time of Sulla. What wonder, then, if Epicurus, in combating Platonism, had in mind these dialogues, which give out the fundamental conceptions of Platonism in a more decisive and dogmatic form than that of the Platonic dialogues?

scholarly journals Education, Person, Suffering. Reflections of Pain Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Tiziana Iaquinta
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The One

Talking about suffering is not easy. It is a delicate and complex topic which involves, personally and deeply, each human being’s life through his/her personal distress, despair and, sometimes, even through annihilation: all the afore said places this topic in a sort of cultural form of exile. Suffering has almost become a taboo, even if it is more and more the object of show business nowadays and it is manifestly exhibited in public contexts. If, on the one hand, suffering plays a leading role in TV shows and it is the object of curiosity, on the other hand, far from the public eyes, it is put aside, even though it does not appear to be less thunderous. In the private sphere suffering is unsaid, denied, removed. Its exhibition has taken the place of its interpretation. Anyway, some worrying signals come from the new generations. The young people, in fact, seem to be incapable of going through and reacting to suffering, sometimes also to that suffering being the result of a little frustration, which is vented through exaggerated and unimaginable attitudes and behaviours. News in the mass media, meanwhile, already reports them almost on a daily basis. In this respect, what can pedagogy, and so education, do? Is it possible to hypothesize a pedagogy of the suffering as a specific ambit for reflection? And through what ways can education help the person to manage his/her suffering? This contribution aims to try to answer these questions.

scholarly journals Geld als Fiktion?

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (179) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiner Ganßmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Credit System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Commodity Money ◽  
Natural Base

Starting from frequent characterizations of modern money as a fiction, the text discusses the theoretical background of the idea that money once was something „real“ whereas now it amounts to no more than a fiction. The distinction has its roots in the conviction that only commodity money was (or is) something „real“, whereas credit money is held to be fictitious money. However, both forms of money are social constructions, one operating with a „natural“ base in the form of precious metals, the other in the context of a politically managed credit system with the central bank as the lead institution. The problem with the latter is that it is not well understood, as the article demonstrates by going through Keynes understanding of money in his Treatise and some of the recent literature. Another recently popular theoretical remedy to enlighten the public about the money it uses has been to declare that all money is credit. However this is a simplification that threatens to undermine the project of improving the general understanding of money as a prerequisite for more democratic decision-making in the wake of the financial and the Euro crises. The fiction concerning money that remains is that there can be such a thing as a monetary invariant.

scholarly journals Mathematicians and the perfect language: Giuseppe Peano's case

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Gouthier ◽  
Nico Pitrelli ◽  
Ivan Pupolizio
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
The One ◽  
Vertical Level

Ever since Galileo's time, scientists have been interested in how to create a perfect language capable of supporting communication at a horizontal level i.e. within the scientific community, and at a vertical level, i.e. between scientists and the public. Special attention will be spent on the mathematicians' role, especially Giuseppe Peano's. The Italian mathematician played a leading role in the creation of a perfect language, both at a horizontal and a vertical level. On the one hand, there is his successful attempt to introduce a standard logical and symbolic system of notation, which became essential for communication among mathematicians. On the other hand, there is the complete failure of his ambitious Latino sine flexione (Latin without inflection), a perfect language which died with its creator.

Σύγκριση των συστημάτων για την αξιολόγηση της απόδοσης του ανθρώπινου δυναμικού σε δημόσιους και ιδιωτικούς φορείς

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Γεώργιος Ασπρίδης
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Short Description ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
The Public

The doctoral thesis studies the evaluation systems of attribution of humanpotential in public services compared to the private enterprises. A short description ofthe theoretical background of the notion "evaluation of human potential'1 is precededand then a short historical retrospection follows.At the second part of the thesis, the author focuses on all systems of evaluationthat were applied in the Greek public administration from 1975 until today. Viaquestionnaire he has studied many enterprises of the private sector and PublicEnterprises of Common Interest (DEKO) localized in Greece.What he concludes from the study is that no system was applied with completesuccess in the public sector. On the contrary none could achieve its objective and befriendly to the employers while contributing in the creation of a more effective andefficient public administration to the citizens. On the other side, in the private sector,the employers' evaluations are realised with a stricter way and they are based onquantitative data.

Analisa Wacana Pemberitaan Kasus Korupsi E-KTP Pada Media Kompas.com Terhadap Pembentukan Opini Publik

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Neri Widya Ramailis ◽  
Dede Nopendri
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Function ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Visual Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs

Discourse is a series of sentences that relate and connect one proposition with the other propositions to from a unity. The main function of the news is not to warn, instruct, and make the public stunned, the main function of the news is to inform and then it is upto the public to utilize the news. There are two ways for the news to be useful to the public, the first to effort news as general knowledge and the second to effort the news a tool of social control. E-Ktp corruption cases are one of the biggest corruption cases that occurered in Indonesia. Therefore, many mass media reported heavilly on E-Ktp corruption cases, one of which was the kompas.com. furthermore, to find out how the writer gets the source the writer gets the source of data and information the writer uses the criminology visual method and then analyzes it using criminology newsmaking theory. However, the results of this study illustrate that the aspect highlighted are those of actors suspected of being involved in E-Ktp corruption cases. Where the media only emphasizes one institution, namely the people’s representative council, even though in this case the involved parties are not only the legislature but case the involved parties are not only the legislature but also from various institutions such as the interior ministry, state-owned enterprises, and private entrepreneurs. In the aspect of media projection Kompas.com make the bulk of the news about E- Ktp corruption cases as news headline and a tranding topic.

MUNDANE MIRACLES IN AWADH. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE REVEALED AND THE HIDDEN

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Maxim B. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Local People ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Mughal Empire ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Other World ◽  
Better Than

The sphere of the unknown, supernatural and miraculous is one of the most popular subjects for everyday discussions in Ayodhya – the last of the provinces of the Mughal Empire, which entered the British Raj in 1859, and in the distant past – the space of many legendary and mythological events. Mostly they concern encounters with inhabitants of the “other world” – spirits, ghosts, jinns as well as miraculous healings following magic rituals or meetings with the so-called saints of different religions (Hindu sadhus, Sufi dervishes),with incomprehensible and frightening natural phenomena. According to the author’s observations ideas of the unknown in Avadh are codified and structured in Avadh better than in other parts of India. Local people can clearly define if they witness a bhut or a jinn and whether the disease is caused by some witchcraft or other reasons. Perhaps that is due to the presence in the holy town of a persistent tradition of katha, the public presentation of plots from the Ramayana epic in both the narrative and poetic as well as performative forms. But are the events and phenomena in question a miracle for the Avadhvasis, residents of Ayodhya and its environs, or are they so commonplace that they do not surprise or fascinate? That exactly is the subject of the essay, written on the basis of materials collected by the author in Ayodhya during the period of 2010 – 2019. The author would like to express his appreciation to Mr. Alok Sharma (Faizabad) for his advice and cooperation.

State of Fashion: Searching for the New Luxury

APRIA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
José Teunissen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Century Model ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

In the last few years, it has often been said that the current fashion system is outdated, still operating by a twentieth-century model that celebrates the individualism of the 'star designer'. In I- D, Sarah Mower recently stated that for the last twenty years, fashion has been at a cocktail party and has completely lost any connection with the public and daily life. On the one hand, designers and big brands experience the enormous pressure to produce new collections at an ever higher pace, leaving less room for reflection, contemplation, and innovation. On the other hand, there is the continuous race to produce at even lower costs and implement more rapid life cycles, resulting in disastrous consequences for society and the environment.

Public Administration’s Dyslexia: Appreciating the Strengths of its Disabilities

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Pamela A Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public

To have a dis/ability opens the possibilities for seeing (understanding) something different because of difference in the disabled’s lens or worldview. Public administration is awash in self-doubt, discomfort and confusion. As it struggles with setting, moving and removing academic boundaries of the discipline, public administration reveals its own dyslexia. The disabling of public administration offers a view from the balcony (or orchestra pit) granting a greater appreciation of ‘the other’ in the public administration student, public administration theory and public administration practices. The dyslexic individual and institution can suffer and celebrate contradiction, paradox, irony, and other delimiting arenas of learning without resistance. Successful learning and understanding can come not in spite of but because of apparent disabilities.

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