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Theatre w/Anatoly
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2007 updates -- see calendar!
NEW: 215 and 413 subdirectories + THEMES subdirectory
God comes to us in theater [in] the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity. Julie Harris
For thousands of years, the male, masculine element was dominant in humanity - force, audacity, pride, courage, striving afar, cruelty, militarism... Millennium after millennium, waves of wars, rebellions, revolutions, terror, and furiously merciless massacres have been rolling and rolling across the face on the earth. The innumerable drops in these waves are male wills and male hearts. . . Meek femininity, driven into the depth of family cells, escaped destruction only because without it man himself was as sterile as a piece of lead and because the physical continuation of mankind is impossible without a woman. . . Until now it was proclaimed that not only a man, but a woman is obliged to be manly. . . But. . . not only a woman, but a man too, must be feminine (Daniil Andreev 6, 3, 123, 124).
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Themes > Ideas > Concept (directing)Questions
In the spheres of the highest creativity, something occurs which is opposite to what we see in the physical world. Here the woman is the fertilizing principle while man is the principle of shaping and incarnation. The Divine Comedy is the product of two authors and it could not appear without both Beatrice and Dante. If we could penetrate the depths of the creative process of the majority of great artists, we would become certain that it was through a woman that the spiritual seed of the immortal creations was thrown into the depth of their [artists'] unconscious, into the hiding-place of their creativity (Daniil Andreev 6, 3, 123).Notes
The pages "topics" (themes) are not growing... although that is what holds drama classes together ... Maybe when I get to "Wrong Subjects"?
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* The titles are not touched in THR215: many! (overview to keep historical/thematic continuety?
* My directing ptojects (connected with what I teach): Chekhov'05 and Pirandello? Beckett? "Director's Notes" (Case studies and drama classes) -- visible links?
The changes in STYLES = history, evolution, progress. Philosophy Through Art -- "Theatre Story"...
2005: XX century theatre/drama by decades:
Impressionism and Expressionism
Futurism, Surrealism and Dada
Constructivism and Absurd
"historicity" (logic of moving from one style to another -- and historical events bg? social changes)
Culture (pop) and Art: the conflict.
dramlit Dramatic Literature Forum * if in my drama class, must subscribe!
... 2007-2008
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