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  • 23 Apr 2024
    Patricia Gaborik

    Luigi Pirandello. Loving the theatre, in spite of it all

    Luigi Pirandello, far left, attends the Maria Melato Company’s rehearsal of his play Lazarus, 1929. Online collection of the Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani e sul Teatro Contemporaneo, Rome “I’m sorry to hear that, still, nearly on the eve of the shows, many things are missing, which, with so much lead time, should have been ready. But we’re […]

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  • 28 Mar 2024
    David Wiles

    Democracy, Theatre and Performance

    We all know that democracy is in trouble.  We are less sure what to blame. Political donations and invisible algorithms? The rise of a culture of personal rights replacing a culture of community? Or from the opposite perspective, the rise of a thing called ‘populism’. In Democracy, Theatre and Performance I look at a political […]

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  • 14 Dec 2023
    Logan J. Connors

    Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire

    What can theater teach us about war? How did war influence theatrical practices in eighteenth-century France and its empire? What do military-theatrical projects reveal about the scope and goals of art during the Age of Revolutions? These are some of the questions that I seek to answer in my new book, Theater, War, and Revolution […]

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