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Describing avant-garde theatre to uninitiated readers is a daunting task. Providing plot summary and character description is often of little use since so much experimental work lacks not only a linear narrative spine, but also psychologically coherent and analyzable characters. Even more daunting than reporting on a finished performance is the attempt to document its…

With the clang of a bell, the sideshow barker turns a few heads his way; his masked companion, dressed in black from head to tattooed shins, turns a few more. Before those glances have a chance to stray, the barker launches into a convivial if not-yet-up-to-speed litany of marvels awaiting the curious, the intrepid, even…

Across the north-south gulf that separates the two Americas, a pair of small ensemble theatre companies – one American, one Chilean – recently met in Bethlehem, Pa. to explore the possibilities of recognizing and synthesizing their differences. Bethlehem’s Touchstone Theatre and Santiago’s Teatro la Memoria collaborated on an adaptation of Marco Antonio de la Parra’s…

In the presence of armed federal marshall – called in amidst rumors there would be a protest from gay activists – the National Council on the Arts convened in Washington, D.C. for its mid-summer quarterly meeting on July 31 and Aug. 1. Voting in favor of all 828 grants recommended by the Arts Endowment’s advisory…

More than 6 million of the faithful have lined up for Arkansas’s Great Passion Play. Art is where you find it. I’m looking forward to when Our Savior gets lifted up on that wire,” says the man next to me. His name is Earl Potjeau and he is pointing to a cable high above our…

At TheatreWorks West in Salt Lake City, an original play, The Ballad of the Mountain Meadows, is in rehearsal. Playwright Raymond Hoskins, who is also acting in the show, is at odds with artistic director Fran Pruyn. Hoskins is defending what for him is an artistic imperative: honest representation. Pruyn is mediating on behalf of…

The term ‘comedy’ is a story that ends in a happy resolution, often in marriage. Since the ‘Merchant of Venice’ is classed as a romantic comedy, it also involves an engaging heroine. The comedy usually involves a struggle but towards the end, all pieces are supposed to fall into place. “The characters and their discomfitures…

The purpose of the opening scene in many of Shakespeare’s plays was to settle and involve the audience. The audience would be standing and would need a good opening scene to keep their attention from straying. For example in Shakespeare’s Macbeth the opening scene is three witches which would almost certainly grab and involve the…

There are four main themes in the play of Romeo and Juliet. These are love, hate, violence and death. The love occurs between Romeo and Juliet, the children of the two families who have an “ancient grudge”. Whenever the kinsmen of the two families meet, they always seem to fight, verbally and physically. They tease…

Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is one of Shakespeare’s most interesting and well-known plays. It may even be the most well known play in the world! For this reason, many attempts have been made, by a variety of directors, to interpret and present the Shakespearian tale in their own way, tying to make it creative,…