Slavic and Eastern European Performance
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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
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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

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