SEEP Volumes 21-25

Volume 21 Number 1 Winter 2001	IN MEMORIAM Wojciech Jerzy Has: 1921-2000 ARTICLES Thoughts of a Director: The Winter’s Tale SLOBODAN UNKOVSKI To Be What You Are: Staging Contemporary East-European Drama in Canada YANA MEERZON A Bridge to Nowhere: Gesher—Russian Theatre in Israel BILHA BLUM Stanislavsky Enters the Twenty First Century SHARON MARIE CARNICKE PAGES FROM THE PAST The Master and the Devil: Mikhail Bulgakov by Andrei Drawicz KEVIN WINDLE REVIEWS The Memorandum at Juilliard: Giving New Meaning to the Term “Office Politics” KURT TAROFF A Dramaturg’s Notebook: The Master and Margarita ILANA M. BROWNSTEIN The Body of the Line: Einstein’s Drawings The Drawing Center DANIEL GEROULD
Volume 21 Number 2 Summer 2001	ARTICLES An Interview with Sergei Nikulin, Russian Publisher MARIA IGNATIEVA Post-Traumatic Theatre Syndrome: Croatian Theatre at the Crossroads DUBRAKA VRGOČ Directing in Two Cultures: the Oeuvre of Milos Lazin ALLAN GRAUBARD AND CAROLINE MCGEE PAGES FROM THE PAST Meyerhold’s 1936 Visit to Prague JARKA BURIAN Modjeska: Some Basic Truths KAZIMIERZ BRAUN REVIEWS Slovak Performance at La Mama:Armageddon on the GRB Hill—The End of the World as She Knew It KURT TAROFF An Interview with Wlodzimierz Staniewski of Gardzienice ROGER BABB The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre: Faust and the Fool LARS MYERS Orbit Milktooth Festival: Children’s Theatre in Croatia DEBORAH STEIN
Volume 21 Number 3 Fall 2001	IN MEMORIAM Norris Houghton 1909-2000 EDWIN WILSON ARTICLES The Olympiad—A Challenge to the Russian and European Theatre DUBRAVKA VRGOČ Nadezhda Ptushkina: A Star of the Russian Theatre ELISABETH T. RICH A Little Orchestra of Hope: Sergei Artsybashev MARIA IGNATIEVA PAGES FROM THE PAST Alexander Tyshler ALLA SOSNOVSKAYA GLASNOST IN FILM—In Retrospect LEO HECHT REVIEWS King, Queen, Knave at the Lensoviet Theatre in St. Petersburg VRENELI FARBER The Prose of the Transsiberian and of the Little Joan of France: Czech Puppets at La Mama EDMUND LINGAN БРЕД ВДВОЁМ / Delirium for Two: The Cold War Theatre Project LARS PARKER-MYERS Silence Silence Silence Speaks Louder Than Words: Theatre Mladinsko at La Mama KURT TAROFF
Volume 22 Number 1 Winter 2002	IN MEMORIAM Jan Kott, 1914-2001 Henryk Tomaszewski, 1919-2001 L ARTICLES Polish Theatre After the Fall of Communism: A Decade of Transition, 1990-2000 GRZEGORZ NIZIOLEK In Pontedera After Grotowski and About Grotowski JANUSZ DEGLER The New Theatre Festival in Wroclaw: From “Contact” to “Dialog” PIOTR RUDZKI Jacek Luminski and the Silesian Dance Theatre: Shaping Contemporary Dance in Poland KIMON KERAMIDAS PAGES FROM THE PAST Chronology of the Life and Work of Witold Wandurski (1891-1934) The Mass Amateur Theatre Needs the Dramatist! The Dramatist Needs the Mass Amateur Theatre! WITOLD WANDURSKI REVIEWS The Sixth Annual Theatre Confrontations International Festival ROGER BABB Report on the IV World Congress of the International University Theatre Association in Kraków, Poland, March 21-25, 2001 SETH BAUMRIN and NORA GLICKMAN Review: A Christmas Carol, Oy Hannukah, Merry Kwanzaa EDMUND LINGAN
Volume 22 Number 2 Summer 2002	IN MEMORIAM Josef Svoboda, 1920-2002: Some Retrospective Comments on His Life and Career JARKA BURIAN ARTICLES St. Petersburg Theatrical Season: 2000-2001 VRENELI FARBAR Oleg Tabakov at the Moscow Art Theatre: An Interview With Alexander Popov MARIA IGNATIEVA The Idiot and Romanian Renaissance: The Sibiu International Festival JOE MARTIN The MES Sarajevo International Theatre Festival ALLAN GRAUBARD AND CAROLINE McGEE PAGES FROM THE PAST Introduction to Ferenc Molnár’s Still Life EUGENE BROGYÁNYI Still Life FERENC MOLNÁR REVIEWS Quo Vadis, A Film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz WILLIAM DeJONG-LAMBERT Long Distance Performance: Emil Hrvatin’s Ms. Mobile at La Mama KURT TAROFF
Volume 22 Number 3 Fall 2002	IN MEMORIAM Martin Esslin, 1918-2002 Gellu Naum, 1915-2001 MOSHE YASSUR ARTICLES Malta 2000 and Other Alternative Festivals MAGDALENA GOŁCZYŃSKA Teatr Biuro Podróży: Short Sojourns in Metaphysical Space DASHA KRIZHANSKAYA Leonid Trushkin, the Anton Chekhov Theatre, and Antrepriza at Its Best ELISABETH RICH Krystian Lupa Directs Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction: An Interview SANDRA LAREDO PAGES FROM THE PAST Victor Sadovnikov (1886-1964) MARIA IGNATIEVA My Work at the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Studio, Guided by K.S. Stanislavsky VICTOR SADOVNIKOV STAGING MROŻEK IN AMERICA: NOTES FROM ACTORS AND DIRECTORS Rehearsing The Party by Sławomir Mrożek HELENA WHITE Some Thoughts on Sławomir Mrożek’s The Party PAUL PAGLIA AND JOE VENA Striptease: A Director Encounters Sławomir Mrożek PAUL BARGETTO REVIEWS Witold Gombrowicz’s Princess Ivona at the Theatre Exile in Philadelphia KRYSTYNA LIPIŃSKA IŁŁAKOWICZ Two by Witkiewicz in Manhattan: Tumor Brainiowicz and The Water Hen KIMON KERAMIDAS Rezo Gabriadze’s Autumn of My Springtime LARS PARKER-MYERS Rezo Gabiadze’s The Battle of Stalingrad MOLLY PARKER-MYERS
Volume 23 Number 1 Winter 2003	ARTICLES The Avram Goldfaden International Theatre Festival in Iasi, Romania BEATE HEIN BENNETT Jerzy Grotowski’s Bright Alley MAGDALENA HASIUK Nord-Ost: Tragic Nights in the Theatre MARIA IGNATIEVA Slobodan Šnajder: Playwright MILOŠ LAZIN Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances on the Contemporary Polish Stage EILEEN KRAJEWSKI REVIEWS A Month in Another Country: After Turgenev, By Friel LAURENCE SENELICK Chekhov in Toronto for Russians and Non-Russians YANA MEERZON Fool’s Mass: Theatre Group Dzieci at La Mama EDMUND LINGAN Janusz Głowacki’s The Fourth Sister at the Vineyard Theatre MEGHAN DUFFY
Volume 23 Number 2 Spring 2003	IN MEMORIAM Kazimierz Dejmek, 1924-2002 ARTICLES Nord-Ost Recovers From a Terrorist Attack and Then Dies from a Weak Box Office DRAGAN KLAIĆ Remembering Gorin (1940-2000) ELISABETH T. RICH Jerzy Grotowski on the Books of His Youth JANUSZ DAGLER Croatian Theatre and War SANJA NIKČEVIĆ The Russian Ark, the Marquis de Custine and the Theatre DANIEL GEROULD REVIEWS A Glimpse at New Czech Drama KURT TAROFF sis3ters in Chicago JEFFREY STEPHENS Brian Friel’s Afterplay at the Gielgud Theatre in London JILL STEVENSON
Volume 23 Number 3 Fall 2003	IN MEMORIAM Alma Law, 1927-2003 ARTICLES Saviana Stănescu: Romanian Poet and Playwright BEATE HEIN BENNETT Karel Steigerwald, Part I ŠTĔPÁN S. ŠIMEK Interview with Mark Rozovsky MARIA IGNATIEVA Translating and Directing Mrożek’s The Turkey in London TERESA MURJAS PAGES FROM THE PAST Stalin and the Moscow Art Theatre MARIE CHRISTINE AUTANT-MATHIEU Letter from Stanislavsky to Stalin Translated by Sharon Marie Carnicke Marat/Sade by the Triumviratus Art Group of Bulgaria MARVIN CARLSON Ostrovsky’s The Forest: Fomenko Interprets Ostrovsky for Paris SHARON MARIE CARNICKE
Volume 24 Number 1 Winter 2004	IN MEMORIAM Tributes to Alma Law, 1927–2003 YURY LYUBIMOV and JOHN FREEDMAN Elem Klimov, 1933-2004 ARTICLES The Man Behind the Melody: Leonid Zorin, Then and Now ELISABETH RICH The Valley of the Arts—Chalk Circle in the Woods ESZTER SZALCZER and TAMÁS SZALCZER Theatre as a ‘Temple of the Mind’ and The ‘Remarkable Moralist’ Karel Steigerwald, Part II ŠTÌPÁN S. ŠIMEK Karel Vachek’s Bohemia Docta VERONIKA TUCKEROVÁ REVIEWS Lady with a Lapdog LAURENCE SENELICK Henrietta Yanovskaya and Kama Ginkas Premiere SHARON MARIE CARNICKE Roman Viktiuk’s Salomé, or The Strange Games of Oscar Wilde OLGA MURATOVA Pagan Saints in Kiev VALENTYNA HRYTSUK
Volume 24 Number 2 Spring 2004	ARTICLES Kama Ginkas Rehearses Rothschild’s Fiddle: An Annotated Diary John Freedman A Spanish Yvonne Princesa de Burgundia Elizabeth Wittlin Lipton REVIEWS Song of the Goat’s Chronicles—A Lamentation Kathleen Cioffi Witkiewicz’s The Mother by the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf at La MaMa Kimon Keramidas Vassily Sigarev’s Black Milk at Chicago’s European Repertory Company Jeffrey Stephens Chekhov’s Platonov on the Stage of the Comédie-Française Ekaterina Sukhanova Alexander Nevsky Revisited in 2003 Saera Yoon Prokofiev and His Contemporaries: The Impact of Soviet Culture Daniel Gerould
Volume 24 Number 3 Fall 2004	ARTICLES Provincial Theatre in Modern Russia: The Kaliningrad Region Jeffrey P. Stephens Miro Gavran: The Return of the Playwright to the Stage Sanja NikÈeviÈ The National Theatre Festival of Pécs, Hungary, 2004 Eugene BrogyÁnyi The National Theatre Feival of Pécs, Hungary, 2004 Interview with Pamela Billig by Eleanor Ruth Interview with Grzegorz Bral, Director of Song of the Goat Roger Babb Crossing Boundaries: Eastern European Puppet Theatre at the 2004 Unima World Festival Jane McMahan REVIEWS The Journals of Mikhail Sebastian by the Keen Company in New York Beate Hein Bennett Mayakovsky’s Mystery-Bouffe at the Berlin Volksbühne Marvin Carlson What Goes Around Comes Around: Ostrovsky’s Last Sacrifice at the Moscow Art Theatre Kurt Taroff Gonbrowicz Transformed: Hell Meets Henry Halfway by Pig Iron Theatre Company of Philadelphia Gerald Weales Rezo Gariadze’s Forbidden Christmas, or The Doctor and the Patient at the Lincoln Center Festival, 2004 Lars Parker-Myers
Volume 25 Number 1 Winter 2005	ARTICLES Olga Mukhina: A Poetic Voice in Post-Soviet Russian Drama Elisabeth Rich Eight Shakespeare Festival Gdañsk-Sopot-Gdynia, July 31-August 8, 2004 John Blondell IX International Theatre Festival: Konfrontacje Teatralne in Lublin, October 6-10, 2004 Helena White Eastern European Bear Hugs: Cinema, Theatre, Opera Daniel Gerould REVIEWS The Border Crossings Production of Double Tongue by Brian Wolland Teresa Murjas The Seagull 2288: Interview with Alexandre Marine, Director Olga Muratova
Volume 25 Number 2 Spring 2005	IN MEMORIAM Karol Wojtyła, 1920-2005 Edward Czerwinski, 1929-2005 ARTICLES To Be or To Perform: Andrzej T. Wirth and Trans-Continental Gardening Krystyna LipiÑska ILLakowicz A Theatre for Young Russian Playwrights and Directors: Aleksei Kazantsev on the Creation of the Dramaturgy and Directing Center Elisabeth Rich Belonging to Those Who Create It: Organization and Financing in Czech Theatre Before and After the Velvet Revolution Štêpan Šimek The Other Comes to Holland: Paradise Regained? Festival in the Netherlands Dasha Krijanskaia Pages from the Past Fortune’s Favorite: Vassily Kachalov Maria Ignatieva REVIEWS Inspector General from Kyiv on Stage in Philadelphia Larissa M. L. Z. Onyshkevych The Ressurrection of the Czech Black Comedy in Jan Høebejk’s Up and Down Leonard Quart
Volume 25 Number 3 Fall 2005	IN MEMORIAM Jarka Burian, 1927-2005 ARTICLES Sergei Artsybashev: The New Stanislavsky? The Rise of a Post-Soviet Russian Director Elisabeth Rich Unraveling the Gordian Knot: The Transformation of Czech Theatre Organization and Financing in the Twenty-First Century Štêpan Šimek Oleg Menshikov: Daring To Be Different Olga Muratova An Interview with Oleg Menshikov Helena Lemeleva REVIEWS Mrożek’s Serenade and Philosopher Fox Amiel Melnick Bard SummerScape 2004: Shostakovich and His World Mary Keelan When Americans Play Czechs: Švejk Off Broadway Veronika Tuckerová Off the Rails: Witkiewicz’s Crazy Locomotive by the Trap Door Theatre Company Kevin Byrne