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Volume 13
Number 1
Winter 2001
SPECIAL ISSUE: THEATRE AT THE MILLENNIUM
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Denmark
  • England
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Monaco and Beyond
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
Volume 13
Number 2
Winter 2001

To Begin Again: Madrid Stages 1998-2000
CANDYCE LEONARD

Death and the Madrid Stage: November 2000
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Paris Theatre: 2000-2001
BARRY DANIELS

Hamlet Times Two in Paris
MARVIN CARLSON

Austrian Music Theatre Festivals
GLENN LONEY

Update on Schauspiel Leipzig under Wolfgang Engel
MARNA KING

The Recklinghausen European Theatre Festival
ROY KIFT

Berlin in Transformation
YVONNE SHAFER

Germany 2001: Still Drawing on Brecht and Wagner
JOSHUA ABRAMS

Music-Theatre in Millennial Munich
GLENN LONEY

Reincarnation and Individuality: Rudolf Steiner’s “Mystery Dramas”
EDMUND B. LINGAN

Woman Playwrights International Conference
DIANA BARTH

Volume 13
Number 3
Fall 2001

Theatertreffen Berlin 2001
KLAUS VAN DEN BERG

Recklinghausen and Co.—the Theaterfestival Ruhr 2001
ROY KIFT

Hamlet Opens 2001-2002 Season at Schauspiel Leipzig
STEVE EARNEST

Interview with Wolfgang Engel, Intendant of Schauspiel Leipzig
STEVE EARNEST

Innovative Music-Theatre Stagings in Selected Central European Festivals
GLENN LONEY

“Reich Chancellery Style” in Switzerland: Christoph Schlingensief’s Hamlet
JÖRG WIESEL

A New Director and a New Play at London’s Royal National
MARVIN CARLSON

The Edinburgh Festival
GLENN LONEY

Calixto Bieto’s Don Giovanni outrages the British Critics
MARIA M. DELGADO

The Fifty-Fifth Avignon Festival
PHILIPPA WEHLE

Avignon OFF 2001: Opening Up!
JEAN DECOCK

Braunschweig’s Prometheus Bound in Strasbourg
MANUEL GARCIA MARTINEZ

Needcompany’s King Lear
MARVIN CARLSON

Madrid in June: 2001
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Interview with Alfonso Armada
CANDYCE LEONARD

Willy Loman Visits Madrid
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Neapolitan Theatre in Rome
MIMI GISOLFI D’APONTE

Volume 14
Number 1
Winter 2002

SPECIAL ISSUE: Eurotheatre

European Union Production Exchanges: Showcase Edinburgh
GLENN LONEY

European Union Production Exchanges: Benelex
GLENN LONEY

France and Eurotheatre
SOPHIE PROUST

Paris and International Theatre
BARRY DANIELS

Edward Bond’s Righteous Anger
ROSETTE CLEMENTINE LAMONT

Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck at the Berliner Ensemble—September 2001
STEVE EARNEST

Juan Mayorga: Playwright without Borders
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Local is the Best Global: Finnish Eurotheatre
PIRKKO KOSKI

Queen of Spades East & West
GLENN LONEY

Report from Paris
MARVIN CARLSON

Letter from the UK—February 2002
NOEL WITTS

“Theatre of War, Theatre of Peace”: David Edgar’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma
JANELLE REINELT

The 2001 Season at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
LOUIS MUINZER

Report from Rome
MARVIN CARLSON

Hedda G. in Finland
MARIA IGNATIEVA

The Dutch National Ballet Celebrates a Jubilee
YVONNE SHAFER

Meg Stuart’s Alibi in Zurich
CHRISTINE THURNER

Volume 14
Number 2
Spring 2002
Paris Theatre, 2001-2002
BARRY DANIELS

Interview with Alain Crombecque
SANDRA LAREDO

The Screens at Théâtre de la Colline
JOSHUA ABRAMS AND JENNIFER PARKER-STARBUCK

Interview with Jose Montalvo
SANDRA LAREDO

Interview with Dogtroep’s Titia Bouwmeester and Bart Kusters
LOREN EDELSON

Storytelling at the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels
JENNIFER PARKER-STARBUCK AND JOSHUA ABRAMS

The Spanish Stage in Madrid and Seville—January 2001
LINDA MATERNA

Lorca in Berlin
MARVIN CARLSON

Robert Wilson’s Doktor Caligari at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin
JOHN ROUSE
Staffan Valdemar Holm’s Twelfth Night

MARVIN CARLSON
Hamlet as Mousetrap: Stefan Bachmann and the German Critics

JÖRG WIESEL
Eimuntas Nekro_ius Directs Chekhov’s Ivanov in Rome

DANIELE VIANELLO
Franz Biberkopf and his double in Helsinki

OUTI LAHTINEN
Western European Festivals 2002

MARVIN CARLSON
Index to Volume 13
Volume 14
Number 3
Fall 2002
The 2002 Berlin Theatertreffen
MARVIN CARLSON AND JOHN ROUSE

Touring the Insulted and the Injured
RALF REMSHARDT

The RUHRtriennale—Germany 2002
ROY KIFT

Festival Productions in Central Europe 2002
GLENN LONEY

The 56th Avignon Festival July 2002
PHILIPPA WEHLE

Avignon OFF 2002: The Year of Paradox
JEAN DECOCK

The 2002 Ibsen Stage Festival at Oslo
LOUIS MUINZER

Edinburgh Festival and Fringe 2002
GLENN LONEY

Four at the RSC
ELIZABETH SWAIN

Summer at the National Theatre
BRUCE KIRLE

The 2002 Season at Shakespeare’s Globe
LOUIS MUINZER

Barcelona 2002
MARION PETER HOLT

Arrabel’s Love Letter: Stellar Attraction of Madrid’s CDN Season
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

One Director’s Work on the Sorrentine Peninsula
MIMI GISOLFI D’APONTE

Zeffirelli’s Aida at the Verona Arena
MARVIN CARLSON
Volume 15
Number 1
Winter 2003
THEATRE IN FRANCE
  • Paris, Summer 2002
    BRUCE KIRLE
  • Paris Theatre 2003
    BARRY DANIELS
  • Didier Bezace Stages Chère Eléna Serguéiévna
    MANUEL GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ
  • Report from Paris, January 2003
    MARVIN CARLSON
  • What Victor Hugo (Bi)Centennial?: An Interview with Jean Luc Jeener
    JEAN DECOCK
  • New Struggles, New Theatre(s):? Contemporary Engaged Theatre in France
    OLIVER NEVEUX
  • Philippe Caubère: Molière Forever
    SOPHIE PROUST
  • Stéphane Braunschweig and the Theatre in Strasbourg
    MARVIN CARLSON
  • The Theatre at Nice
    SOPHIE PROUST
A Review of the 2002 London Theatre Season
ROBERT SKLOOT

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, National Theatre, London, Autumn 2002
NOEL WITTS

Station House Opera, Mare’s Nest; and Forkbeard Fantasy, Frankenstein
GREG GIESEKAM

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico in Almagro, Spain
CELIA BRAXTON

A Masked Ball, Die Fledermaus, Threepenny Opera: Calixto Bieito’s 2002

Alles nur Spass: Cologne’s Carnival Stunksitzung
ERIK ABBOTT
Volume 15
Number 2
Spring 2003
Alternative Theatre Festivals in Madrid
CANDYCE LEONARD AND CYNTHIA GENDRICH

Valle-Inclán and Fernán Gómez: Major Revivals in Madrid, 2003
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Directing the Contemporary Spanish Stage: Carlos Rodríguez
CANDYCE LEONARD AND CYNTHIA GENDRICH

Pedrero and Teatro Yeses: Women Take Center Stage in Madrid
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Report From Denmark
MARVIN CARLSON

April in Paris, 2003
BARRY DANIELS

Street Theatre in Bethune
BERTIE FERDMAN

Frank Castorf’s Streetcar
MARVIN CARLSON

A Gorki Trio
MARVIN CARLSON

Waiting for Godot at the Gate
ROBERT S. MCLEAN
Volume 15
Number 3
Fall 2003
FESTIVAL REPORTS
  • Avignon
    PHILIPPA WEHLE
  • Avignon 2003: The Festival That Was Not
    JEAN DECOCK
  • The Edinburgh Festival
    GLENN LONEY
  • The 2003 Berlin Theatertreffen
    MARVIN CARLSON
  • German Festival Report: Munich and Bayreuth
    GLENN LONEY
  • Festivals from Recklinghausen to the Ruhrtiennale
    ROY KIFT
  • Austrian Festival Report: Salzburg and Bregenz
    GLENN LONEY
  • The 2003 Season at Shakespeare’s Globe
    LOUIS MUINZER
  • Lope de Vega, Peribañez
    JUDITH MILHOUS
  • Letter from the UK: Summer and Autumn, 2003
    NOEL WITTS
  • Paris Theatre: June, July, 2003
    BARRY DANIELS
  • Fear and Loathing at the Munich Kammerspiele
    LAURENCE SENELICK
  • Ignacio Amestoy Eguiguren and the Politics of Contemporary Spanish Theatre
    CANDYCE LEONARD
  • Abbas Kiarostami’s Ta'ziye at the Teatro India, Rome
    P.A. SKANTZE
  • To You Who Are Listening from Athens, Greece
    MARINA KOTZAMANI
Volume 16
Number 1
Winter 2004
Special Section on Berlin
  • Three December Productions in Berlin
    MARVIN CARLSON
  • Bernd Wilms at the Deutsches Theater
    WILLIAM GRANGE
  • Two by Thalheimer at the Deutsches Theater
    JOHN ROUSE
  • A New Vision of Theatre: The Timely introduction of Video and Film in the Work of Frank Castorf, René Pollesch, and Olaf Nicolai
    THOMAS IRMER
  • Sarah Kane’s Crave at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
    STEVE EARNEST
  • Der Auftrag
    LYDIA STRYK
  • Two by Büchner in Berlin
    JOHN ROUSE
  • Le Grand Macabre at the Komische Oper, Berlin
    STEVE EARNEST
  • Two from Berlin: Tabori’s Jews and Kimmig’s Stella
    ERIK ABBOTT
Letter from Paris
BARRY DANIELS

Theatre in Paris: October 2003
ALLAN GRAUBARD

Hedda Gabler: Théâtre Marigny. Paris. Autumn Season, 2003
JOAN TEMPLETON

Justifying War and the Case of David Kelly
JANELLE REINELT

Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Sadler’s Wells
MARVIN CARLSON

“A Lot of Work and a Flicker of Intuition.” Calixto Bieito Stages Hamlet
MARIA M. DELGADO

Belgian Theatre Making a Comeback: Four Plays and an Opera
DAVID WILLINGER
Volume 16
Number 2
Spring 2004

Democracy at the National Theatre
Marvin Carlson

London 2004
Josh Abrams and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck

The Burial at Thebes: A Poetic Rendering of Sophocles’ Antigone by Seamus Heaney
Kevin Byrne

Paris 2003
Bruce Kirle

2004: April in Paris
Barry Daniels

Report from Paris, March 2004
Marvin Carlson

Interview with Christian Benedetti
Allan Graubard

Madrid in March 2004: From Days of Mourning to Standing Room Only
Phyllis Zatlin

Opera and Theatre in Barcelona: Catalan Veterans, Spanish Stars, and International Visitors
Maria M. Delgado

A Sampling of Cologne’s Smaller Stages
Erik Abbott

New Names, New Plays, New Ways: Matthias Hartmann and the Bochum Schauspielhaus
Roy Kift

“Alternative” Subversion: Cologne Carnival and the Stunksitzung
Erik Abbott

The Audience and Civic-Religious Celebration in Tuscany
Jenna Soleo

Volume 16
Number 3
Fall 2004

The 2004 Theatertreffen
Marvin Carlson and Klaus van den Berg

Munich Festival 2004: New Music-Theatre Stagings
Glenn Loney

Full of sound and fury: Gérard Mortier, the Ruhr Triennale, and the Frank Castorf Disaster
Roy Kift

Avignon 2004, a New Festival for a New Europe?
Philippa Wehle

Avignon OFF 2004: Fall Out
Jean Decock

The Edinburgh Festival 2004: Cutting Edges and Dull Blades
Glenn Loney

Forum 2004 Barcelona: A Summer of Stagings in Spain’s Theatrical Capital
Maria M. Delgado

Bregenz Festival 2004: Kurt Weill & David Pountney
Glenn Loney

Paris Theatre, Summer 2004
Barry Daniels

Jacque Nichet Directs Sophocles’ Antigone
Manuel Garcia Martinez

Scenographic Approaches in Recent French Productions
Patrice Pavis

Cruel and Tender: Metaphysics and Performance in a Time of Terror
John Ginman

The Playboy in the Western World
Charles Dietrich

Beyond the Theatertreffen
Marvin Carlson

Trespassing: An Experimental Production in Aarhus
Jens Christian Lauenstein Led

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