SEEP Volumes 11-15

Volume 11 Number 1 Spring 1991	ARTICLES Tadeusz Kantor: A Brief Chronology DANIEL GEROULD Memory by Tadeusz Kantor Translated by MICHAL KOBIALKA Tadeusz Kantor's Labyrinths of Memory MICHAL KOBIALKA There Was No Choice by Zygmunt Hübner Translated by JADWIGA KOSICKA On the Stages of Ukraine 1990: From Sholom Aleichem to Mykola Kulish LARISSA ONYSHKEVYCH Soviet Film NICHOLAS RZHEVSKY Glasnost on the Cuyahoga: The First Cleveland Film Conference JAMES H. KRUKONES REVIEWS A Light From the East MELINDA JO GUTTMAN Cerceau at the Arena LEO HECHT Tango, by Slawomir Mrozek: Manticore Theatre, New York JOEL BERKOWITZ
Volume 11 Number 2 Summer 1991	ARTICLES Kantor's Marionettes: Taking it Personally AGNIESZKA PERLINSKA Soviet and American Scholars Gather at Harvard Theatre Collection MICHAEL YURIEFF PAGES FROM THE PAST Russian Drama and Performance in the United States Prior to the Arrival of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1923 Compiled by LAURENCE SENELICK REVIEWS Three Soviet Suicides JOHN FREEDMAN Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol: Prop Theatre, Chicago JEFF STEPHENS The Lenigrad Leteiny Theatre's Lolita: A Review SHIRLEY BURKE Blue Nights of the K.G.B. EDWARD DEE
Volume 11 Number 3 Winter 1991	ARTICLES Theatre in Prague and the Seventh Prague Quadrennial ARNOLD ARONSON Interview with István Eörsi IMRE GOLDSTEIN Meyerhold's Grave ALMA LAW Polish Theatre's Incomplete Transition: The Rape of Europe KATHLEEN CIOFFI Broadway in the Barren Land? GREG GRANSDEN PAGES FROM THE PAST Meyerhold's Grave ALMA LAW REVIEWS Caught Between Two Worlds: A Review of The Emigrants by Slawomir Mrozek at the Jean Cocteau Repertory, New York SCOTT E. WALTERS Seagull at the Arena Stage MARINA J. B. PETER 'Funny and Sad Stories' GITIS of Moscow: Hunter College, New York J. K. CURRY REVIEWS FROM THE SECOND NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Tattoo Theatre by Yugoslavia's Open Stage/Obala CHRISTINE A. PINKOWICZ The State Theatre of Lithuania's Uncle Vanya JOEL BERKOWITZ Tadeusz Kantor's Today is My Birthday by Cricot 2 at La Mama E.T.C. EDWARD DEE
Volume 12 Number 1 Spring 1992	ARTICLES Largo Desloato by Václav Havel: Divadlo na zábradlí, Prague, September 1990. Directed by Jan Grossman MICHAEL L. QUINN Whose Side Are You On, Master Bulgakov? AGNIESZKA PERLINSKA Mrozek at the Playwright's Center, Minneapolis ANTHONY BUKOSKI Recreating a Tradition: Moscow's Sibilyov Studio JOHN FREEDMAN Today Is My Birthday: Tadeusz Kantor's Living Archive AGNIESSZKA PERLINSKA REVIEWS Hungarian President's Iron Bars in New York City PATRICK HENNEDY Aleksandr Gelman's A Man With Connections at the No Curtain Theatre, Washington, D.C. VERA BORKOVEC Stanislavski in the Sticks MICHAEL YURIEFF Understanding the Language of the Theatre: Nekrosius's The Nose JOHN FREEDMAN Edinburgh Festival Report, 1991: The National Theatre of Martin, Czechoslovakia Baal, by Bertolt Brecht; The Dispute, by Pierre Marivaux JAMES F. SCHLATTER
Volume 12 Number 2&3 Fall 1992	ARTICLES Some Moscow Premieres: The 1991-1992 Season JOHN FREEDMAN The European Cultural Month and the Witkacy Week: Cracow 1992 DANIEL GEROULD The Yara Arts Group Works in Kiev VIRLANA TKACZ Meeting a Dream. . . Meeting Yourself DMYTRO KROTELENETS Theatre's Velvet Revolution MELINDA JO GUTTMAN Ghelderode Colloquium at the University of Cluj, Romania DAVID WILLINGER REVIEWS Metro EDWIN WILSON The Suicide Comes 'Full Circle' in Cleveland SCOTT T. CUMMINGS Edvard Radzinsky's An Old Actress in the Role of Dostoevsky's Wife at the Jean Cocteau Repertory PATRICK HENNEDY Audience Discussion with Eve Adamson and Alma Law Following a Performance of An Old Actress in the Role of Dostoevsky's Wife Edited by PATRICK HENNEDY Havel's Vanek Plays at the Jean Cocteau Repertory CHRISTINE A. PINKOWICZ
Volume 13 Number 1 Spring 1993	ARTICLES Yuri Lyubimov Directs in Helsinki ALMA LAW The First Anton Chekhov International Theatre Festival JOHN FREEDMAN Theatre-On-Podol: Kiev, Ukraine Repertoire and Performance Style SUZANNE TRAUTH Antigone Hangs Herself in Tompkins Square Park JAN KOTT PAGES FROM THE PAST Zygmunt Hübner's Letter to Václav Havel DANIEL GEROULD REVIEWS No Conductor and In Shadow JANE HOUSE Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's The Water Hen Performed at the Playground Theatre DAVID CALLAGHAN Iztok Kovac's Slovenian Performance Art PATRICK HENNEDY
Volume 13 Number 2 Summer 1993	ARTICLES Kiev Season: Autumn 1991 VRENELI FARBER A Glimpse into Anatoly Vasilyev's School of Dramatic Art JOHN FREEDMAN Grotowski at Fifty-Nine: The Ten-Day Conference at Irvine (August 1992) and the Six-Day Mini-Course at NYU (February 1993) ROBERT FINDLAY An Overview of the Romanian Theatre TUDOR PETRUT PAGES FROM THE PAST Grotowski Visits Moscow (Photos) ALMA LAW Mikhail Chekhov's The Castle Awakens MEL GORDON REVIEWS Mrozek's Tango by the Independent Theatre Co. JOEL BASSIN Cinema in Transition: Recent Films from East and Central Europe-Symposium DAVID A. GOLDFARB
Volume 13 Number 3 Fall 1993	ARTICLES The Year of the Actor in Moscow JOHN FREEDMAN Grossman, Machácek, Schorm: The Loss of Three Major Czech Directors of the Late Twentieth Century JARKA M. BURIAN Jerzy Grzegorzewski: The Power of Images ELWIRA M. GROSSMAN The Wheel of Misfortune: Intrigue and Love at the Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre, St. Petersburg MARIA IGNATIEVA and JOSEPH BRANDESKY Creating the Dramatic Space: Blind Sight by the Yara Arts Group, New York IRINIA MILLER Ivanov and Others, Moscow ELIZABETH SWAIN REVIEWS Chekhov at the Festival des Amériques, Montreal May/June 1993 JANE HOUSE The Bedbug, Lehman College, New York DANA SUTTON Pinokio Theatre Drak (Czechoslovakia) at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York SHARI TROY
Volume 14 Number 1 Spring 1994	ARTICLES Orchestics: A Direction in Hungarian Movement Theatre. An Interview with Mária Tatai ESZTER SZALACZER Theatre Scholars Tour the Baltic States MARVIN CARLSON The Rise and Fall of the Youth Movement in Moscow: The Fomenko Studio and Others JOHN FREEDMAN Arthur Miller at the Theatre-on-Podol: A Crucible and a Coup SUZANNE TRAUTH International Conference on Jewish Theatre in Poland MICHAEL STEINLAUF Polish Theatre in the Nineties: Catastrophe and Hope JULIUSZ TYSZKA PAGES FROM THE PAST Frolov on Tragicomedy DANIEL GEROULD Vladimir Frolov: Tragicomedy Translation by LEONID CHECHELNITSKY and ROBERTA READER REVIEWS How Are Things in Bratislava?: The Slovak National Theatre Visits Ohio SCOTT T. CUMMINGS Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector at the National Actors Theatre, New York DAVID CALLAGHAN Ukrainka's Forest Song at La Mama, New York ROXANA STUART On Viewing a Production of Vladimir Gubaryev's Sarcophagus CHARLOTTE J. HEADRICK with contributions by VRENELI FARBER
Volume 14 Number 2 Summer 1994	ARTICLES Mrozek's Chekhovian Tragicomedy Stirs Mixed Emotions DANIEL GEROULD Moving in New Directions: The Class of Expressive Plastic Movement JOHN FREEDMAN "Polish Theatre: From the Shadows of the Communist Past to the Challenges of the Democratic Future" A Lecture by Kazimierz Braun, April 28, 1994, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center DAVID A. GOLDFARB PAGES FROM THE PAST Restoring Theatricality to the Art of Theatre LIVIU CIULEI Liviu Ciulei's "Restoring Theatricality to the Art of Theatre" HERBERT C. RAND REVIEWS SEEP Reviews of Chekhov Productions, 1981-1994 Clown Wanted by Romanian Playwright Matei Visniec JANE HOUSE Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia MARCIA L. FERGUSON The Museum of Modern Art Presents Rarely Seen Soviet Films DANIEL GEROULD
Volume 14 Number 3 Fall 1994	ARTICLES Moscow Trends: The 1993-1994 Season JOHN FREEDMAN Slava Polunin, President of the Academy of Fools JOEL SCHECHTER The Rustaveli Theatre Moscow Tour JOHN FREEDMAN IFTR Meets in Moscow LAURENCE SENELICK Witkiewicz Conference in Slupsk, Poland: September 16-18, 1994 DANIEL GEROULD Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America Panel Discussion on Yiddish-Language Theatre in Poland NAHMA SANDROW Vladimir Frolov, 1917-1994 IRINA MILLER PAGES FROM THE PAST Lunacharsky and Melodrama DANIEL GEROULD What Kind of Melodrama Do We Need? by Anatolii Lunacharsky Translated by DANIEL GEROULD REVIEWS From Lower Depths to Mountain Heights MELISSA T. SMITH
Volume 15 Number 1 Spring 1995	ARTICLES Prague Theatre Four Years After the Velvet Revolution: The Veterans Remain JARKA M. BURIAN Tribute to a Very Small Theatre, or Eulogy for the Balustrade VERONIKA AMBROS Volodymyr Kuchynsky's Theatre of Inquiry LARISSA M. L. Z. ONYSHKEVYCH Eimuntas Nekrosius Brings Pushkin and Consternation to Moscow JOHN FREEDMAN REVIEWS Seventy-Two Years Later: The Magnificent Cuckold at the "Satirikon" Theatre, Moscow IRINA MILLER Lev Dodin's Gaudeamus at Dartmouth College and Gorky in Vermont MICHAEL YURIEFF Sokurov's Tikhiye Stranitsy: The Labyrinthine Path from Literature to Film MARC ROBINSON
Volume 15 Number 2 Summer 1995	ARTICLES The Problem with Anatoly Vasilyev JOHN FREEDMAN Theatrical Life in Budapest: A Snapshot ESZTER SZALCZER Kama Ginkas Directs Fyodor Dostoyevsky JOHN FREEDMAN PAGES FROM THE PAST The Possessed Produced by Michael Chekhov on Broadway in 1939 LIISA BYCKLING REVIEWS The Beekeeper's Daughter: A Play on the Genocide in Bosnia ODETTE BLUMENFELD An Inspector Calls: Director Mark Weil's Journey from Tashkent to Honolulu LURANA DONNELS O'MALLEY Puzzling Theatre: Edvard Radzinsky's How to Murder a Man PHILIP ALEXANDER
Volume 15 Number 3 Fall 1995	ARTICLES Approaching Grotowski's Work-Without-Witness LISA WOLFORD Cricoteka: Kantor's (Un)Resting Place in Theatrical History JEFF LAWSON Thoroughly Moderne Moscow LAWRENCE SENELICK Moscow Narrows its Sights and Hits the Mark: The 1994-1995 Season JOHN FREEDMAN PAGES FROM THE PAST Tarkovsky, or the Burning House: Part 1 PETR KRAL (Translated by KEVIN WINDLE) REVIEWS The Comic Struggle for Ideology after Communism: La Petite Apocalypse-Costa-Gavras and The Convert-Kazimierz Kutz DAVID A. GOLDFARB Mayakovsky's The Bedbug Adapted by Snoo Wilson ELIZABETH SWAIN Silviu Purcarete's The Tempest MARVIN CARLSON Havel's The Memorandum at the Independent Theatre Company DAVID CRESPY and JULIE GOCHMAN Antique Puppets and Ageless Tales: The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatres Production of The White Doe and other Stories ESZTER SZALACZER