SEEP Volumes 16-20

Volume 16 Number 1 Winter 1996	ARTICLES Performing Arts of Romania at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ERIC POURCHOT Croatian Theatre During the Recent War (1990-1995) DUBRAVKA VRGOC STOKA Group of Bratislava and the Slovak Theatre JURAJ SEBESTA The Emergence of a New Genre in Polish Drama: Plays of Juvenile Crime JADWIGA KOSICKA Moscow Buoyed by Touring Companies JOHN FREEDMAN PAGES FROM THE PAST Tarkovsky, or the Burning House, Part II PETR KRAL (Translated by KEVIN WINDLE) REVIEWS Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice in Postmodern Improvisation by the Moscow Theatre Most IRINA MILLER Early Soviet Art at New York Galleries DANIEL GEROULD Witold Gombrowicz's Ivona, Princess of Burgundia at Columbia University DAVID GOLDFARB
Volume 16 Number 2 Spring 1996	ARTICLES Václav Havel's Notable Encounters in His Early Theatrical Career JARKA BURIAN Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free: The History of Squat Theatre--a Retrospective Exhibition at Artists Space Gallery ESZTER SZALCZER Revelation and Camouflage: Polish Cinema from 1930 to the Present--a Symposium DAVID GOLDFARB After Ceausescu: a Discussion of Romanian Arts Issues at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ERIC POURCHOT PAGES FROM THE PAST Tarkovsky, or the Burning House, Part III PETR KRAL (Translated by KEVIN WINDLE) REVIEWS Two from St. Petersburg JOHN FREEDMAN Erdman's The Suicide at Columbia University JENNIFER STARBUCK Lithuanian Theatre in New York MARVIN CARLSON Volodymyr Kuchynsky's Les Kurbas Theatre from Lvov LARISSA ONYSHKEVYCH Anca Visdei's Always Together At Ubu Repertory Theater ERIC POURCHOT
Volume 16 Number 3 Fall 1996	ARTICLES Big Names Keep Moscow Moving: The 1995-1996 Season JOHN FREEDMAN The Overcoat in Dramatic Pantomime: Reflections on My Life and Art RAJMUND KLECHOT Otrabanda Company& The Fairground Booth ROGER BABB The Second Anton Chekhov International Theatre Festival JOHN FREEDMAN PAGES FROM THE PAST Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stop [Ostatni Etap] STUART LEIBMAN Béla Balázs on Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stop: Three Texts" Translated by ZSUZSA BERGER and STUART LIEBMAN REVIEWS Eastern European Puppet Theatre at the 1996 UNIMA Festival JANE McMAHAN Teatr 3/4 BARBARA A. NIEMCZYK Otrabanda Company Stages Alexander Blok's The Fairground Booth at La Mama E.T.C. JAMES LEVERETT Soviet and Polish Avant-Garde Art and Performance at New York Galleries 1996 DANIEL GEROULD Antigone in New York at the Vineyard Theatre JENNIFER STARBUCK Péter Kárpáti's Everyman/Woman: Budapest 1996 JULIE GOCHMAN
Volume 17 Number 1 Spring 1997	ARTICLES Recovering the Theatre's Memory LAURENCE SENELICK South Bohemian Jewels: Two Faces of Theatre in Ceský Krumlov JOE BRANDESKY Moscow is Watching SPENCER GOLUB Latvian Theatre in the 90s: Trends, Repertoire, Personalities GUNA ZELTINA The Post-Soviet Politician as Clown: Notes on Joseph Brodsky's Democracy JOEL SCHECHTER PAGES FROM THE PAST Jasienski, Lunacharsky, Moor, and The Mannequins' Ball DANIEL GEROULD Chronology of the Life and Work of Bruno Jasienski DANIEL GEROULD Introduction to the 1931 Moscow Edition of The Mannequins' Ball by Anatolii Lunacharski Translated by DANIEL GEROULD REVIEWS Underground LEONARD QUART Shakhnazarov's American Daughter: Maintaining Balance in a Split World MARC ROBINSON A Festival of Polish Theatre at La Mama: Kazimierz Braun's Helena--The Emigrant Queen SUSAN TENNERIELLO Jerzy Jarocki's Grzebanie, Based on the Life of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. At the Stary Teatr, Cracow HELENA M. WHITE A Contemporary, Russian-Language Three Sisters on Broadway. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre JANE HOUSE The Moscow Theatre Sovremennik's Into the Whirlwind. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre JENNIFER STARBUCK
Volume 17 Number 2 Summer 1997	ARTICLES Jerzy Grotowski's First Lecture at the Collège de France ALLEN J. KUHARSKI Historical Plays in Search of National Identity in Croatian Theatre Today SANJA NIKCEVIC Contemporary Croatian War Plays DARKO LUKIC Changes in the Croatian Theatre after 1990 BORIS SENKER The Return of Melodrama in Recent Croatian Theatre DUBRAVKA VRGOC PAGES FROM THE PAST An Unknown Revolution: The Estonian Theatre of the 1960s and 1970s JAAK RAHESOO REVIEWS Kolya LEONARD QUART Gombrowicz's Ivona, Directed by Bergman: Cracow, 20 September 1996 HELENA M. WHITE The American Premiere of Radovan Ivsic's Kralj Gordogan Presented by the Rorschach Group SUSAN TENNERIELLO Collaboration as a Process of Creative Discovery: Prague's Sladký Theresienstadt DENNIS C. BECK Slawomir Mrozek's The Emigrants at the Seattle Fringe Festival JOHN LONGENBAUGH
Volume 17 Number 3 Fall 1997	ARTICLES "I Was Always in the Epicenter of Whatever Was Going On . . .": An Interview With Wanda Jakubowska STUART LIEBMAN Tarkovsky's Odes to . . . Joy? ROGER HILLMAN FESTIVAL REVIEWS The Third International Gombrowicz Festival ALLEN J. KUHARSKI Theatre in Croatia: The 1997 Summer Festivalsin Dubrovnik and Split ALLAN GRUABARD and CAROLINE McGEE Varna: Festival on the Black Sea GLENN LONEY REVIEWS Seagulls Over Niagara LAURENCE SENELICK From Craiova to Lincoln Center: Silviu Purcarete's Les Danaïdes and Contemporary Romanian Theatre ERIC POURCHOT Rebuilding the Ruins: Intercultural Theatre Alliances Between the U.S. and Eastern-Central Europe TELORY WILLIAMSON
Volume 18 Number 1 Spring 1998	ARTICLES Lyubimov Jubilee ALMA LAW The Estonian Drama Festival Revisited JAAK RAHESOO Christmas at the Classic Stage Company JULIA LISTENGARTEN Poland's New Horizons in Contemporary Dance LINDA CALDWELL Contemporary Polish Drama on Foreign Stages HALINA STEPHAN Two Recent Productions in Budapest ESZTER SZALCZER An Interview With Kazimierz Braun SUSAN TENNERIELLO PAGES FROM THE PAST Selections from the Private Correspondence Between Vsevolod Meyerhold and Fyodor Sologub Concerning Two Productions of The Triumph of Death IRINA MILLER REVIEWS A Performance of Bruno Jasienski's The Dummies' Ball at the State University of New York, Buffalo SUSAN TENNERIELLO The Sovremennik Theatre Company's Production of The Cherry Orchard at the Martin Beck Theatre MICHAEL BOLUS Eimuntas Nekrosius Directs Hamlet MARVIN CARLSON Hamlet: A Puppet Tragedy JENNIFER STARBUCK
Volume 18 Number 2 Summer 1998	ARTICLES Theatre in Central and Eastern Europe in Transition DRAGAN KLAIC Between Two Worlds: Ansky's The Dybbuk and Kushner's A Dybbuk JAMES FISHER The Stage of Mysteries: The Black Light Theatre of Prague NINA HEIN Darko Lukic's Plastic Camellias or Dumas fils as Soap Opera SANJA NIKCEVIC The Idea of Art Theatre: Past, Present, and Future Anatoly Smeliansky at Hunter College MICHAEL BOLUS You Will Never Get to Moscow: an Interview with Anatoly Smeliansky MICHAEL BOLUS PAGES FROM THE PAST The Fourth Annual Theatre Festival in Moscow and Leningrad 1936 ALMA H. LAW REVIEWS The Moscow Art Theatre's Three Sisters at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: February 10, 1998 HELENA M. WHITE Kushner and the Kabbalah: A Dybbuk JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS Meyerhold's Revizor at Yale SUSAN TENNERIELLO
Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 1998	ARTICLES Somewhere in Europe: The History of Hungarian Cinema ESZTER SZALCZER Kauno Mazasis Teatras (The Little Theatre of Kaunas) JEFF JOHNSON The American Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre, Spring 1998 TONI HULL Theatre Criticism Conference in Pula, Croatia MARVIN CARLSON Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Photography 1910-1930 Metaphysical Portraits DANIEL GEROULD Polish Avant-garde, 1920-1945 at the Ubu Gallery DANIEL GEROULD REVIEWS Resurrecting Monsters: Witkiewicz's Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in Philadelphia MARCIA L. FERGUSON Stephen Koplowicz and Company Present Karel Capek's War with the Newts at New York Dance Theatre Workshop LARS MYERS U.B.U./I'll Be Me: From Bydgoszcz to the Bronx SUSAN TENNERIELLO
Volume 19 Number 1 Spring 1999	In Memoriam Jerzy Grotowski ARTICLES Three Young Czech Directors: Facets of Czech Theatre on the Cusp of the Millennium JARKA BURIAN Hungarian Playwright György Spiró on Theatre Culture in Post-communist East Europe ESZTER SZALCZER Budapesti Alternatív Színházak: Dog or Wolf? JEFF JOHNSON Contemporary Dance in Poland Prepares for the Year 2000 LINDA CALDWELL Awakening the Humanity in People: an Interview with Krystyna Janda MAREK KUSIBA and EDWARD ZYMAN Report from Estonia MARVIN CARLSON Cyrk: Polish Circus Posters: An Exhibit and Panel Discussion on ‘Polish Influence on the Arts' JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK PAGES FROM THE PAST From Home Masquerades to Public Performance: Nikolai Evreinov's Production of Fyodor Sologub's Play Night Dances IRINA MILLER REVIEWS The Metamorphosis of Apuleius by Gardzienice SUSAN TENNERIELLO Three Sisters in Philadelphia MARCIA L. FERGUSON The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater's Golem JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK Caught in the Act MELISSA GASPAR
Volume 19 Number 2 Summer 1999	IN MEMORIAM Lucille Lortel Paul Schmidt ARTICLES Victor Rozov: Alive Forever? ELISABETH RICH Interview With Vít Horejs LARS MYERS What Do We Care If the Winter Is Cold and Stressful? Five St. Petersburg Directors: A Generation with an Aversion to Politics DARIA KRIZHANSKAYA Fighting Fences: Theatrical Rule-breaking in the Serbian Republic of Bosnia SONJA KUFTINEC PAGES FROM THE PAST Mikhoels in America MEL GORDON Did Kurbas Stage King Lear in Moscow? Unraveling the Mystery of Les' Kurbas's Last Production NATALIA CHECHEL REVIEWS Who's Legs Are Those? The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's Rusalka, the Little Rivermaid BLANKA KRIVÁNKOVÁ Tesla's Letters at Ensemble Studio Theatre JENNIFER PARKER STARBUCK A Hungarian Film of Woyzeck ROGER HILLMAN
Volume 19 Number 3 Fall 1999	ARTICLES Interview with Piotr Borowski: Artistic Director of Studium Teatralne, Warsaw PAUL ALLAIN PAGES FROM THE PAST True North? Nicholas Roerich and the Moscow Art Theatre Production of Peer Gynt, 1912-1913 JOHN McCANNON Amelia Hertz and Ysolde of the White Hands JADWIGA KOSICKA Ysolde of the White Hands by AMELIA HERTZ (Translated by JADWIGA KOSICKA) REVIEWS The Holocaust in Cinema: a Conference Report STUART LIEBMAN From Oxford to Bucharest: A Report on the First International Yiddish Theatre Conference at Oxford and on the Yiddish State Theatre in Bucharest in Performance MOSHE YASSUR Eastern European Contributions to the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre MARVIN CARLSON A Hotel Room in the Town of NN at the Kennedy Center HELENA M. WHITE Witkiewicz's Mother at Cinoherní Klub GERALD WEALES Psycho-drama in the Disco-rama: Tonino Guerra's Fourth Chair at Kaunas Mañasis Teatras JEFF JOHNSON
Volume 20 Number 1 Spring 2000	ARTICLES Petr Lébl: May 1965-December 1999 JARKA BURIAN Chekhov and the Young Spectators' Theatre ELISABETH T. RICH Chekhov at Moscow's Theatre of the South-West: the Twentieth Anniversary MICHAEL LONG Memoirs of the Warsaw Uprising WIESLAW GÓRSKI Memoirs in Iowa CYNTHIA GOATLEY Croatian Theatre at the Close of the Nineties: From Political Queries to Aesthetic Challenges DUBRAVKA VRGOC Frakcija-Magazine for the Performing Arts DUBRAVKA VRGOC Kauno Valstybinis Akademinis Dramas Teatras (The Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre, Kaunas, Lithuania) JEFF JOHNSON REVIEWS The Crazy Locomotive JOSEPH ROACH The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's Twelve Iron Sandals MOLLY PARKER The Swan: a Lyrical Song For a Dying Culture JOSHUA ABRAMS
Volume 20 Number 2 Summer 2000	ARTICLES Grotowski at Irvine-and Beyond Introduction ROBERT COHEN Putting a Tree in a Box ROBERT COHEN On His Way JAIRO CUESTA Grotowski: The Teacher JAMES SLOWIAK Reaching Back HOLLY HOLSINGER Grotowski's Subjective Drama RICHARD HORNBY Postscript in New York: Grotowski after Grotowski LARS MYERS Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke Importing Gombrowicz: Notes on the American Premiere of Ferdydurke ALLEN J. KUHARSKI Witold Gombrowicz--Ferdydurke in Polish and English DAVID A. GOLDFARB Crossing Lines of Safety: Acting in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke ROGER BABB REVIEWS Report from the Eighteenth National Theatre Festival of Hungary ESZTER SZALCZER Creative Recycling: Yara Arts Group and Circle KRISTINA LUCENKO The Visual Poetry of Marina Temkina: Engagement Time at the Florence Lynch Gallery SUSAN TENNERIELLO
Volume 20 Number 3 Fall 2000	ARTICLES Oleg Yefremov's Funeral: From the Perspective of a Graduate Acting Student DARRIN BROWNE Oleg Yefremov (1927-2000): A Final Tribute ELISABETH RICH Biomechanics Revisited SERGEI DREZNIN Film Research in Poland STUART LIEBMAN Czech Cinema: An Interview with Michal Bragant, Czech National Film Archives JAMES BUGLEWICZ Kauno Jaunimo Kamerinis Teatras (Kaunas Youth Chamber Theatre, Kaunas Lithuania) JEFF JOHNSON PAGES FROM THE PAST Nina Aizenberg (1902-1974): Russian Designer ALLA SOSNOVSKAYA Wajda's Industrial Epic: The Promised Land LEONARD QUART REVIEWS Our God's Brother by Karol Wojtyla FRED TOLLINI S.J. Kontakt 2000 HELENA M. WHITE Unidram 2000 and Teatr Cinema MARVIN CARLSON International Playwrights Festival: Moscow Open City JEFFREY STEPHENS