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Reconstructing Theatre: the Globe under Dominic Dromgoole

by Tom Cornford

Researcher as Director. Research as Stage

by marta rabikowska

Presentation given at the University of Oxford, July 2010 Presentation given at the University of Oxford, July 2010

Review of Ordinary Heroes: The Films of Danny Boyle (2011)

by Laurence Raw

Published in JOURNAL OF BRITISH CINEMA AND TELEVISION VOL. 8 NO. 2 (2011): 231.

A review of a survey of Danny Boyle's film and television work up to and including his films to 2009. A review of a survey of Danny Boyle's film and television work up to and including his films to 2009.

Review of Alternative Film Culture; The British B Movie; and The Lost World of Cliff Twemlow (2011)

by Laurence Raw

Originally published in SCOPE: A JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES, June 2011

A review of recently published books on the alternative, lesser known aspects of British cinema. A review of recently published books on the alternative, lesser known aspects of British cinema.

All My Loving? The Films of Tony Palmer by John C. Tibbetts

by Laurence Raw

Originally published in JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE 43, no. 2 (2010): 428-9

All My Loving contains analyses of all Palmer’s major films, interspersed with comments from the director himself, as... more All My Loving contains analyses of all Palmer’s major films, interspersed with comments from the director himself, as well as those who have worked with him on both sides of the camera. Like Palmer himself, Tibbetts is an enthusiast, celebrating the work of a hitherto little known director (especially in the United States). The book is written in a clear, accessible style that seems particularly appropriate for a director who for decades has striven to bring high cultural subjects to popular audiences.

Crazy World by Lope De Vega Adapted by Baris Erdenk, Ankara State Theatre 2009

by Laurence Raw

A dramatization of Lope de Vega's comedy. Viewable on JSTOR through Project Muse A dramatization of Lope de Vega's comedy. Viewable on JSTOR through Project Muse

A dead baby and a scar, but […] no genitalia in sight. Is Bieito's Jenůfa really a Bieito?

by Jorge Balça

BALÇA, J. 2010. A dead baby and a scar, but […] no genitalia in sight. Is Bieito's Jenůfa really a Bieito? Studies in Musical Theatre. 4(2). pp.141-154.

Catalan director Calixto Bieito is seen by many as the enfant terrible of opera, and his productions are known for... more Catalan director Calixto Bieito is seen by many as the enfant terrible of opera, and his productions are known for their strong sexual content, onstage violence and radical updating of seminal works. This article, within the framework of Regietheater (director's theatre), examines this director's signature style through the analysis of the Stuttgart State Opera's 2007 Jenůfa by Janáček, one of Bieito's least controversial productions. Through the analysis of recurrent dramaturgical and directorial choices and the production's relationship with the libretto, this article questions the value of audience, media and theorists' expectations as identifiers of a director's output and contextualizes this production within Bieito's oeuvre.

V.E. Meyerhold. Nasledie. 1. Avtobiograficheskie materialy. Dokumenty 1896-1903, and: V.E. Meyerhold. Lektsii: 1918-1919, and: V.E. Meyerhold. Nasledie. 2. Tovarischestvo novoi dramy. Sozdanie Studii na Povarskoi. Leto 1903-vesna 1905 (review)

by Kathryn Syssoyeva

TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2010 (T 207), pp. 170-174 (Review)

In lieu of an abstract, a preview of the article.

When I die, everyone will go crawling into the... more In lieu of an abstract, a preview of the article.

When I die, everyone will go crawling into the files-"what secrets are in there?" None. Scraps and hieroglyphs.
-Meyerhold (Sitkovetskaia 2001:42)

O.M. Feldman's three volumes of Meyerhold's papers represent the culmination of 50 years of Meyerhold scholarship: much of it conducted not in print, but behind the scenes, in the reading room of the Russian Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), by an evolving team of scholars who have devoted decades to piecing together the complex history of a creative life that the Stalinist machine had sought to expunge. Though the years since Meyerhold's rehabilitation have seen the publication of numerous books and articles, Feldman's three volumes are the first works that allow the reader to glimpse the full breadth and complexity of Meyerhold's work-and of the fraught artistic life lived through two revolutions, civil war, continual social upheaval, and profound cultural change. The Meyerhold archives are vast. Their holdings are almost an embarrassment of riches, a fact to which Feldman's books bear witness: the three volumes of documents and commentary Feldman has published thus far (some 1,700 pages in all) take us from 1896 to 1905 (with a brief leap forward to 1918, to cover a series of course lectures). Meyerhold died in 1940.

A victim of the Stalinist repression, Meyerhold was assassinated in Lubyanka prison; his archives were classified material until 1955, when the director was officially "rehabilitated." Among the first scholars to set to work on Meyerhold's papers in the post-Stalin era was Alexandr Viliamovich Fevralskii, former literary director of GosTIM (the Meyerhold theatre). In 1968, Fevralskii brought out a two-volume collection of Meyerhold's writings: Stati, pisma, rechi, besedi (Articles, Letters, Speeches, Conversations; Fevralskii and Sitkovetskaiia 1968). It was the beginning of the mission that has since been taken up by O.M. Feldman: to "unlock" the archives by bringing Meyerhold's papers to print. That project would prove long and painstaking, obstructed by missing documentation, unattributed
correspondence, and an official record of Soviet cultural history grossly at variance with reality....