“…Participants included a leading educational psychologist, a renowned national television news anchor, a four-time national champion collegiate coach, the founder and former chief executive of Arbor Day Foundation, a university scholar turned playwright, and two female adventurers who quit their jobs, sold their possessions, and have lived a nomadic life, hiking thousands of miles throughout America. …”
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“…Drawing on two examples from the author’s “public engagement” work—a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation and work with a playwright and theatre—the paper interrogates the ways in which “public engagement” is often characterized. …”
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“…In his autos sacramentales, Early Modern Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca portrays the relationships between human inner workings and the Christian concept of time. …”
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“…In parallel he had a rich artistic and cultural activity as writer and playwright: he was president of the Transylvanian Writers’ Society, editor of a literary review, director of the Cluj theater and opera, leader of a book club and founder of a symphony orchestra.…”
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“…In the current study, baseline expectations for results and performance are set using an advanced technique known as “unmasking” on the test case of Aphra Behn, a 17(th) century English playwright. Following this, Mental Profile Mapping is introduced and tested for its psychometric properties, tested using a “bogus insertion” method, and then applied to canonical Aphra Behn plays. …”
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“…By employing a digital version of a corpus of 11,268 verses originally written by the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García-Lorca (1898–1936), we could craft several prototypical visualizations representative of the inherent complexity of the problem which we expect to employ in future user studies and that we share here with the rest of the community to foster further discussion around this interesting topic.…”
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“…This project was designed to explore the impact of a one-woman theatrical performance on attitudes towards bipolar disorder (BD) on people with BD and healthcare providers. METHODS: A playwright and actress who lives with BD developed a stage performance - 'That’s Just Crazy Talk’ - targeting stigmatizing attitudes towards BD. …”
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“…He was a novelist, political activist, essayist and editor, as well as a journalist and playwright. Although he was described as philosopher, he often denied this ascription. …”
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“…In Prague, also many famous philosophers and writers accomplished their works; for instance, playwright arel ape coined the word "robot" in Prague (“robot” comes from the Czech word “robota” which means “forced labor”).…”
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“…The author uses unpublished historical archives to establish Girolamo Giusti as the true playwright of the libretto Motezuma, addressing the motives and sources that could have lead to the creation of this opera with an Indigenous-American theme. …”
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“…El texto y la puesta en escena logran un efecto espectacular, en la que el receptor es un agente activo del ritual del teatro.Palabras clave: violencia, migración, identidad, pasado, presente, memoria, México.AbstractViolence, Migration and Identity in Jaime Chabaud’s Oc Ye Nechca, érase una vezThis article engages in a critical analysis of the play Oc Ye Nechca, érase una vez (Oc Ye Nechca, once upon a time), by Mexican playwright Jaime Chabaud. The play’s title uses languages that belong to Western and Náhuatl cultures, which suggests how the piece addresses social issues beyond national borders. …”
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“…An Affective Dialogue with Tradition in Recent Chilean Theater: A Reading of Neva, by Guillermo CalderónAbstractThis article seeks to establish a thorough reading of Neva, by prominent Chilean playwright and director Guilermo Calderón, using both his work on metatheatricality and the natural voice. …”
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“…También se estudiarán, a través del análisis teórico-dramático correspondiente al género del teatro del absurdo, la naturaleza abstracta de los personajes creados por el autor de manera despersonalizada, animalizada y degradada –como alegorías de la sociedad y su histeria colectiva– en su segunda obra, La paz de la buena gente, escrita en la Ciudad de México en 1967 y estrenada en 1980.Oscar Villegas and his Dehumanized Characters in La paz de la buena genteThis article outlines the creative style and artistic trajectory of Mexican playwright Oscar Villegas. The abstract nature of the characters in his second play, La paz de la buena gente (Good People’s Peace) (Mexico City, 1967/1980), is analyzed from the perspective of the Theater of the Absurd. …”
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“…coul’d and shoul’d be: The method of using a playwright and Socrates dialogue format to connect the science of uncertainty with personal humanity decision will be appropriate. …”
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“…Montero no sólo utiliza mitos y obras clásicas para reflexionar sobre problemas actuales, sino que también convierte su texto, al entrecruzar tantas huellas de fuentes diversas, en un extenso discurso sobre la pervivencia clásica.The Themes in Áyax y Casandra, by Reinaldo MonteroAbstractThis article aims to analyze how Cuban playwright Reinaldo Montero engages with classical themes in his play Áyax y Casandra. …”
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“…Con estas obras, Liera buscó renovar tanto estética como ideológicamente esta temática en los años ochenta.Violence as an Extreme Disciplinary Action in Las dulces compañías, by Oscar LieraAbstractThis article analyzes two works by Mexican playwright Oscar Liera: Bajo el silencio and Un misterioso pacto, from the perspective of cultural history, based on Michel Foucault’s theory on the technologies of power. …”
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“…Notes on an Eternal Tragedy: the Relation of Time and Space in Hugo Salcedo’s El viaje de los cantores Abstract In his play El viaje de los cantores (1988), Mexican playwright Hugo Salcedo sought to move the spectator-reader’s consciousness through a dynamic play of time and space, loaded with a strong cultural and social content. …”
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“…This became evident in a judicial case that implicated Chilean playwright Manuela Infante’s play, Prat. In the play, law uses theatrical instruments to determine who can change and who or cannot. …”
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“…Yerandy Fleites and the Defense for the Crisis of the Hero Abstract Since it was published in 2007, Jardín de héroes (Garden of Heroes), by the Cuban playwright Yerandy Fleites (Ranchuelo, 1982), established a repositioning point in the Cuban dramaturgical tradition by the way it treats some archetypical referents oof ancient Greek tragedy. …”
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“…Del Ciclo nos interesan las redefiniciones respecto al cruce entre teatro y militancia política, y la habilitación de nuevos espacios de comunidad social a partir del dolor de los cuerpos.The Performing Arts and Memory Cycle: an Amorous RebellionAbstractThis article addresses two theatrical events: the play Villa, by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón, and the Performing Arts and Memory Cycle, coordinated by Jorge Villegas. …”
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