Wisdom I loved; I sought her out when I was young and longed to win her for my bride, and I fell in love with her beauty. She adds lustre to her noble birth, because it is given her to live with God, and the Lord of all things has accepted her ("The Wisdom of Solomon," 8: 2-3).
Notes: Sorry, folks. This directory was the "backstage area" for Theatre w/Anatoly, but as usual -- it grew. I began to place Anatoly-Theatre files, although they belong to Market-Anatoly directory. Well, now I use it for THR Theory pages.
2005 updates: Small Chekhov Fall * "Four Farces & One Funeral" -- Chekhov.05 Chekhov's one-acts are updated -- The Bear, The Proposal (1st act -- Oh, Love!), Wedding, Tobacco (Act II -- Ah, Marriage!), but I'm still working on the "funeral" (Last Day of Anton Chekhov). mini-chekhov I am teaching DramLit -- groups.yahoo.com/group/dramlit (subscribe) and see THR215 for subjects, topics, titles.
Spring 2006 -- Waiting for Godot, Beckett -- new pages ( see shows )
Summary
This directory outlived itself. It belongs to the second generation of my webpages. The new texts are in the new specialized directories (3rd generation): virtual theatre, spectator, film600 and so on. 4th generation? Well, it's not pages anymore -- but scenes!
* The Theatre--Advancing by Edward Gordon Craig; Little, Brown & Company, 1919 - Part I
- A Plea for Two Theatres: This Essay Is Dedicated to the Tired Business Man
- A Durable Theatre
- The Modern Theatre, and Another
- In Defence of the Artist
- The Open Air
- Belief and Make-Believe: A Footnote to "The Actor and the Über-Marionette."
- Imagination
- Part II
- Theatrical Reform
- Public Opinion
- Proposals Old and New: A Dialogue Between A Theatrical Manager and An Artist of the Theatre.
- Part III
- Gentlemen, the Marionette!
- On Masks: By A Bishop and by Me
- Shakespeares Collaborators
- In a Restaurant
- "Literary" Theatres
- Art or Imitation?: A Plea for An Enquiry After the Missing Laws of the Art
- A Conversation with Jules Champfleury
- The Theatre in Italy: Naples and Pompeii: A Letter to John Semar
- Church and Stage: in Rome: "When in Rome Do as the Romans Do."
- Thoroughness in the Theatre
- On Learning Magic: A Dialogue Many Times Repeated
- Tuition in Art: A Note to the Younger Generation of Theatrical Students
- On the Old School of Acting
- A Letter to Ellen Terry
- Yvette Guilbert
- Sada Yacco
- New Departures
- The Wise and the Foolish Virgins
- To Eleonora Duse
- Ladies, Temperament and Discipline
- Part IV
- The Copyright Law: A Suggestion for An Amendment
- The New Theme: Poverty
- The Voice
- Theatrical Love
- Realism, or Nerve-Tickling
- The Poet and Motion Pictures
- The True Hamlet
- The Futurists
- Fire! Fire!
Integrating Practice as Research = teaching theatre
"... Dionysus is a god of mystery religion, with a message of salvation. As god of the mysteries, Dionysus was sometimes invoked by the name of Dionysus-Zagreus, or merely Zagreus, for whom specific dogma was established through a variation of the traditional myth about his birth.
Zeus mated with his daughter Persephone, and she bore a son ZAGREUS [zag're-us] (another name for Dionysus). Hera, because of her jealousy, incited the Titans to dismember the child and devour the pieces. The heart of the child was saved; and Dionysus was born again, through Semele and Zeus, as recounted above. Zeus in anger destroyed the Titans, and from their ashes mortals were born.
This is one of the most potent and basic myths in its elucidation of the teachings of mystery religions. It explains why human beings are endowed with a dual nature. Our body is gross and evil because we are sprung from the ashes of the Titans, but we have a pure and divine soul, since the Titans had devoured the god. From this evolved concepts of virtue and sin, life after death, and reward and punishment. This myth of Zagreus was incorporated into the mystery religion attributed to Orpheus..."
Theme-thought, according to different playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and so on) and directors (Fillini, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Bergman pages).
Connections with other themes (list): family, gender and sex...
Finally, my own practical investigations: shows.vtheatre.net (only recently I began to make themes pages, Don Juan 2003, for example).
And the nonfiction (writing), of course: HIM, Father-Russia, PostAmeriKa, Self, POV, Tech (gatepages are in WRITE directory).
Yeah, yeah, there is more -- "philo" pages, metaphysics: in theatre theory directory, for instance (topics-bar: space, time and etc.)
Many files and directories are moved to GeoAlaska site: http://geocities.com/anatolant [ Where is the "Russian Page: Exile" website? "Russian Pages"? ]
Russian-American Theatre is at RAT, the plays are moved to the PLAYS directory. The SPREE server is gone and my "Russian webpages" are @ Father-Russia directory.
My friend, the webbing is an experiment, which has a beginning and must have an end. I am doing it for six years, the webpages. I am writing. The Internet lets me write and publish at the same time. I was overtaken by this phenomena... Six years ago. "Theatre Theory"? I don't have to read books anymore. What theory? Maybe something ahead of me I know not about? Maybe... Maybe I can find the golden balance between the web and the thought.
