{"title":"The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theater@@@Acting As Reading: The Place of Reading in the Actor's Process@@@Acting (Re)Considered: Theories and Practices","authors":"J. Peck, P. Brook, David Cole, P. Zarrilli","doi":"10.2307/1146634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"37 1","pages":"171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78333912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pieter-Dirk Uys: Crossing Apartheid Lines. An Interview","authors":"Daniel Lieberfeld, Pieter-Dirk Uys","doi":"10.2307/1146572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146572","url":null,"abstract":"Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa's premier political satirist, was born in Cape Town in 1945 to an Afrikaner father and a German-Jewish mother. From 1965 to 1972 he studied drama at the University of Cape Town and film at the London Film School. During the 197os he wrote and directed plays at the Space Theatre in Cape Town and at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Uys (pronounced \"Ace\") is author of over 25 plays and reviews. His play God's Forgotten was performed in 1978 at La Mama in New York City. Other works performed in the U.S. and U.K. include Paradise Is Closing Down (1977) and Beyond the Rubicon (1986), which were also produced for South African television.","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"26 1","pages":"61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82083813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Return of Moctezuma: Oaxaca's \"Danza de la Pluma\" and New Mexico's \"Danza de los Matachines\"","authors":"M. Harris","doi":"10.2307/1146575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146575","url":null,"abstract":"Specifically, Wachtel has in mind the widespread folk dramatizations of the Spanish conquest of indigenous America. But the Spanish, too, brought with them to the Americas their own trauma of invasion and armed resistance. For nearly 750 years, Moors had occupied parts of Spain. The year 1492 was not only the time when Columbus landed in the Americas; it was also the year in which the Spanish forces conquered the last Moorish stronghold of Granada. The intermittent Spanish reconquista may have been the theme of festive drama since as early as ii5o (Alford 1937:22122), and both the small-scale danzas de moros y cristianos and the large-scale fiestas de moros y cristianos were brought to the Americas by the conquistadors (Warman Gryj 1972; Harris 1994). The American folk performances to which Wachtel refers are, at least in part, an adaptation of the Spanish tradition. While in many cases the two sides that engage in mock combat in Mesoamerica still represent Moors and Christians, in others they dress as Aztecs and Spaniards or, in a reference to the French invasion of Mexico in I862, as French and Mexican armies (Gilmoor 1943:25-28; Harris 1993:io8-19). But the theme of Moors and Christians cut two ways in the New World. For the Spanish colonists, it offered an opportunity to celebrate the victory of Christians over \"heathens\" and to draw parallels, favorable to Christianity, between the defeat of the Moors and the defeat of the Mexicans. For the indigenous Mexican performers, the fact that the Spaniards finally drove out the invading Moors suggested instead the dramatization of a future reconquest of","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"25 1","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78728913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Febrile Fiber Phantoms\": Ken Jacobs at the C. I. A.","authors":"Charles Bergengren","doi":"10.2307/1146573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"48 1","pages":"72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90541943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Origins in Absence: Performing Birth Stories","authors":"Della Pollock","doi":"10.2307/1146570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146570","url":null,"abstract":"For the past five years, I have been more and less intentionally listening to birth stories. In line, in the hall, over coffee, at the park, and in informal interview settings, I have participated in the ritual process of recounting birth \"experiences\"-or, rather, of constituting those experiences out of the scraps of memory and bits of stories left after the ritual performance of birth itself.' I heard my first birth story near the end of my first pregnancy-when my round belly and hips betrayed the fact that I would soon be the subject of similar stories, that I was, for all intents and purposes, whether I liked it or not, already inside this particular narrative ring. Bound by a conspiracy of the body, contracted by maternity to hear, to tell, and to retell what others-insidiously, joyously, anxiously-told and retold me, I became both the \"subject\" of and \"subject\" to birth stories. Listening, I was the naive student, the initiate, the mother, the co-mother, the sister and friend; I was the bearer of stories; the professional (allied by doing research to institutions of medicine and science), the expert, the surveyor of \"good\" and \"bad\" births, the teacher, the outsider who should know or know better. Buffeted by conversation from one role to the next, I nonetheless seemed always to be the \"other\" with and against whose standards, norms, and practices the women and men with whom I spoke defined their own. The first story I heard left me devastated and hungry for more. I was living in a small, patrician town outside of Boston at the time (we'd arrived three months earlier and would leave again in two) and was fully nine months pregnant. I'd taken to wandering the streets in the late afternoon, enjoying the sudden, knowing smiles; the uncharacteristic deference of Boston drivers waiting patiently for me to cross the street; the general sense of surrounding pause. I was an intimate stranger to this town. My neighbors-the people I didn't know and would never know who nonetheless used the same dry cleaners and waited at the same stoplights-tended me with fascination. They traded benevolence for participation. As I later learned was so common, they felt the uncommon suspense of an imminent birth and wanted to be in on the drama, conventionally asking, \"When are you due?\" often reaching out to touch the belly that seemed to reach out to them. I always backed away from these gestures, resisting a collapse into mere public property. I wanted to re-","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"1 1","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89797447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"!Que linda es Cuba!: Issues of Gender, Color, and Nationalism in Cuba's Tropicana Nightclub Performance","authors":"E. Ruf","doi":"10.2307/1146574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146574","url":null,"abstract":"The Tropicana Nightclub was a youngster of twenty in 1959 when Fidel Castro rolled into Havana with his triumphant army and turned the Batista dictatorship on its head. Already well established as one of the premier nightspots in the hemisphere for international playboys, Tropicana landed like a cat on its feet. The Tropicana show has thrived for more than 36 years in revolutionary Cuba without apologizing for its ambiance of sensual license. The casinos are no more, but the Tropicana aesthetic has changed little since the days when organized-crime bosses from New York flew their girlfriends to Havana for a night of dinner, dancing, and adventure. Tropicana is still one of the most lavish nightclub spectacles in the world and retains from prerevolutionary days the suggestion of wealth and leisure, the glittering excess, the colonial-inflected costumes revealing yards of bare skin, and the idealization of the mulata.'","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"13 1","pages":"86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85686257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexican Beasts and Living Santos","authors":"G. Gómez-Peña","doi":"10.2307/1146576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1146576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":"33 1","pages":"135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85399500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malawi study signals need for more research on female genital schistosomiasis.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85611,"journal":{"name":"TDR news","volume":" 50","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}