Western European Stages
Table of Contents
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Volume 1
Number 1
Fall 1989
Giorgio Strehler's Faust
ROSETTE LAMONT

Valhalla is Kaput! The New Ring at Bayreuth
GLENN LONEY

Report from France
MARVIN CARLSON

Antoine Vitez at the Comédie Française
ROSETTE LAMONT

Klaus Michael Grüber's Danton's Death in Paris
MARVIN CARLSON

Women's Theatre: Teatro La Maddalena and the Work of Dacia Mariani
GRAZIA SUMELI WEINBERG

Reflections on the Contemporary Italian Avant-Garde;
The Summer Festivals of Spoleto and Santarcangelo
MIMI GISOLFI D'APONTE

Interview: Dacia Mariani
JANE HOUSE

Dismantling the Theatrical Canon: One Playgoer's Priorities
JUDITH MILHOUS

Volume 2
Number 1
Spring 1990
Report from Norway
CARLA WAAL

Ich Bin Ein (Ost) Berliner: Hamlet at the Volksbühne
DENNIS KENNEDY

Robert Wilson Stages Virginia Woolf and Chekhov in Germany
ANDREJ WIRTH

A Robert Wilson Calendar

Elsa in Auschwitz? Werner Herzog at Bayreuth
GLENN LONEY

The Scene in Madrid
MARION PETER HOLT

Jérôme Savary, the "Great Mamanouchi" of the Magic Circus
ROSETTE C. LAMONT

Conversations with Jérôme Savary
MIMI GISOLFI D'APONTE

The Miser at the Compagnie Jacques Mauclair
BARRY DANIELS

Daniel Mesguich's Titus Andronicus
MARVIN CARLSON

Interview: Daniel Mesguich
MARVIN CARLSON

Introducing Hugo Claus
DAVID WILLINGER

New Productions in Italy by Ronconi, Fo, and Rame
JANA O'KEEFE BAZZONI

Royal Shakespeare Company Plans for 1990

The Almeida Theatre: New Promise for the 1990s
CHRISTINE A. PINKOWICZ

The English Shakespeare Company:
Where Did They Come From? Where Are They Going?
SCOTT McMILLIN

Volume 2
Number 2
Fall 1990

Jorge Lavelli, a Cosmopolitan Director Twice Over

OSVALDO OBREGÓN

 

Jorge Lavelli’s Théâtre National de la Colline

ROSETTE C. LAMONT

 

Interview with Jorge Lavelli on Interculturalism

MANUEL GARCIA MARTINEZ

 

Peter Brook’s The Tempest

MARVIN CARLSON

 

The 1990 Avignon Festival

MANUEL GARCIA MARTINEZ

 

Director’s Report from Santarcangelo

ANTONIO ATTISANI

 

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

DAVID WILLINGER

 

Dario Fo Directs Molière at the Comédie-Français

JANA O’KEEFE BAZZONI

 

The First International Ibsen Festival

ERIC SAMUELSON and MARVIN CARLSON

 

Interview with Michael Bogdanov

JACK WELSH

 

Berlin Theatertreffen 1990

ROBERT K. SARLÓS

 

Zuckermayer at the Berlin Ensemble

WILLIAM GRANGE

 

Report from the Netherlands

BRUCE A. MCCONACHIE

 

The Heiner Müller Festival

ARTHUR HOLMBERG

 

Prunella Scales as Mrs. Candour: Building a Role

SUSAN SPECTOR

Volume 3
Number 1
Spring 1991
Théâtre du Soleil and Ariane Mnouchkine: Special Section
-----Théâtre du Soleil: Merging the Artistic and Economic
-----CHRISTINE PINKOWICZ

-----Les Atrides at the Soleil
-----BARRY DANIELS

-----Conversation with Ariane Mnouchkine
-----ROSETTE LAMONT

Theatre in Madrid
MARION PETER HOLT

Report from Vienna
MARVIN CARLSON

Stockholm's Orion Theatre
HARRY G. CARLSON and SUSAN EINHORN

Report from Italy
JANA O'KEEFE BAZZONI

Shakespeare in Paris
BARRY DANIELS

Blauwe Maandag Compagnie
DAVID WILLINGER

A Spin Through the Flemish Theatre Scene
DAVID WILLINGER

Cerceau at Nanterre
MANUEL GARCÍA MARTINEZ

Interview with Claude Regy
MANUEL GARCÍA MARTINEZ

London Without the RSC
ROBERT D. HUME

Humpty Thespis Sat on a Wall: A Great Fall for East German Theatre?
GLENN LONEY

Dublin Theatre Festival, October 1990
MIMI GISOLFI D'APONTE

Excerpts from an Interview with Michael Harding
MIMI GISOLFI D'APONTE

Volume 3
Number 2
Fall 1991
Giorgio Strehler's Faust II
ROSETTE C. LAMONT

Conversation with Giorgio Strehler
ROSETTE C. LAMONT

The 1991 Avignon Festival: 9 July - 2 August
JUDITH MILLER

Report from Iceland: The 1990-91 Season, and Beyond
LEIGH WOODS

No Longer Two, Not Yet One: German Theatre and the 1991 Berlin Festival
KAREN KRAMER

[Re]Defining Wales in Current Welsh Theatre
WILLIAM FARICY CONDEE

Notes on the International Avant-garde at Santarcangelo
MIMI GISOLFI D'APONTE

Comedias bárbaras/Comedies barbares:
Europe Discovers the Epic Trilogy of Valle-Inclán
PHYLLIS ZATLIN

Klaus Michael Grüber's Amphitryon at the Berlin Schaubühne
MANUEL GARCIA MARTINEZ

Wilson or Mozart? The Magic Flute at the Paris Opera
BARRY DANIELS

Review of Jean-Pierre Vincent's Princesses
LEANORE LEIBLEIN

Interview with Jean-Pierre Vincent
LEANORE LEIBLEIN

Fast Forward/Bad Air und So by Remote Control Productions, Brussels, Belgium
JOHAN CALLENS

Volume 4
Number 1
Spring 1992
Surgery for Siamese Stages? Proposals for Berlin Theatres
GLENN LONEY

The Conspiracy of Fiesko in Genoa
YVONNE SHAFER

Interview with Dieter Mann: From the DDR to Reunification
YVONNE SHAFER

Theatre in Berlin: The Women Arrive
JOHN ROUSE

Mesguich's Marie Tudor
MANUEL GARCÍA MARTINEZ

Report from Paris
BARRY DANIELS

The End of an Epoch: Valle-Inclán's Comedias Bárbaras
ROSETTE LAMONT

Of Note at the National: New Plays by Alan Bennett and David Hare
CHRISTINE PINKOWICZ

A Theatrical January: London
JOHN LOUIS DiGAETANI

Interview with Declan Donellan
HARRY G. CARLSON

Report from Madrid
THOMAS A. McCLARY

Golden Age of Plays at London's Gate Theatre and Madrid's Teatro de la Comedia
MARION PETER HOLT

From the Gate to the Court: The Rise of Stephen Daldry
GLENN LONEY

Ronconi's Strange Interlude
MARVIN CARLSON

Interview with Luca Ronconi
MARVIN CARLSON

Volume 4
Number 2
Fall 1992
Eugenio Barba in Holstebro--Odin Teatret 1992
SETH BAUMRIN

Lars Norén's Fursteslickaren in Uppsala, Sweden
CARL WAAL

The 1992 Ibsen Stage Festival
LOUIS MUINZER

The 1992 Siena Festival
EDWIN WILSON

Volker Braun--Poet and Social Critic
YVONNE SHAFER

Inteview with Volker Braun
YVONNE SHAFER

Free Market for the Berliner Ensemble
GLENN LONEY

Masada at the bat/Studiotheater--Berlin
STEPHEN EARNEST

German Theatre in the Quasi-Capital: The 29th Berlin Theatretreffen
KAREN KRAMER and HELGA BECK

Edward Bond in Paris
JANELLE REINELT

Ariane Mnouchkine's Eumenides
ROSETTE C. LAMONT

Report from the Avignon Festival
RONNIE SCHARFMAN

Avignon Supplement
BARBARA MEREDITH WALDINGER

Street Theatre at Eclat 92 and Environs
JANE McMAHAN

Stéphane Braunschweig and His Theatre-Machine
PHILIPPE WEHLE
-----Supplemental Notes
-----MARVIN CARLSON

Changing Conditions in the Modern Irish Theatre
DAVID GRANT

RSC's Adrian Noble Stages The Thebans
GLENN LONEY

Lepage's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oliver and Its Critics
ROBERT D. TAYLOR


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