The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents Staging twenty first Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Monday 17 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a ebook discuss dwell at The Segal Theatre with theatre scholar and director Avra Sidiropoulou discussing her newest publication Staging twenty first Century Tragedies: Τheatre, Politics, and Global Crisis (Routledge 2022). A dialog with panelists Carol Martin, Karen Malpede, and Peter Campbell will accompany the presentation, in addition to dwell excerpt readings from Karen Malpede’s 2020 play Troy Too, which is featured within the assortment. The ebook shall be launched by Professor Marvin Carlson. Di Zhu and David Glover will learn from the play, which Avra Sidiropoulou will direct at HERE Arts Centre, New York (11-21 May 2023).
Staging twenty first Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis examines methods during which the political, ecological, and social tragedies of our century are being negotiated on worldwide phases. Sidiropoulou explains how the globally reemerging follow of politically engaged artwork—a “Theatre of Crisis”—represents our century’s equal to the style of classical tragedy.
Using an interdisciplinary perspective, the ebook discusses participatory, immersive, and documentary theatre practices that emerged within the public sphere—creating the theatre of “modern tragedy.” The coexistence of scholarly essays with provocative manifestos, interviews, authentic works, theatre texts, and diaries by theatre artists is supposed to offer a multifocal, wealthy lens for efficiency evaluation and a greater understanding of the artistic course of. This new worldwide assortment printed by Routledge in 2022, consists of essays, interviews, performs, and manifestos by main teachers, artists, writers, and curators, together with Anestis Azas, Taiwo Afolabi, Silvia Bigliazzi, Peter Campbell, Freddy Decreus, Ana Contreras Elvira, Lupe Gehrenbech, Hanane Hajj Ali, Karen Malpede , Carol Martin, Yana Meerzon, Aldo Milohnic, Ana Fernandez Caparrós, Avra Sidiropoulou, Ogah Mark Onwe, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, Frank Raddatz, Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando, Tadashi Uchino, Su Xiaogang, Daniel Wetzel, and Constantina Ziropoulou.
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Peter A. Campbell is a theatre-maker, instructor, and scholar. His skilled work contains the latest installations PUBLIC DISCOURSE, Mediacracy, and Can’t Get There From Here had been workshopped at MASS MoCA, and medea & medea/ for medea, iph.then, and Yellow Electras on the Incubator Arts Project in New York City. He has printed essays in venues similar to Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Contemporary Theatre Journal, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He is Professor of Theater History and Criticism and Dean of the School of Contemporary Arts at Ramapo College.
Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies on the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has obtained an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the ASTR Distinguished Scholarship Award, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the Calloway Prize for writing in theatre. He is the director of the Marvin Carlson Center for the examine of Global Theatre and the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the founding editor of the journals Western European Stages and Arab Stages. He is the creator of over 330 scholarly article and twenty-three books, amongst them Theories of the Theatre and The Haunted Stage. His work has been translated into 23 languages.
David Glover is an actor, poet, and director from Philadelphia. He is an artist drawn to telling wanted tales that press on the potent roots of trauma and therapeutic. Historical productions in New York and Philadelphia embody the revival of The Escape; Or A leap for freedom (the primary printed play by an African American), the American premieres of The View and The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, for which he received a Barrymore Award, and the World premiere of The Brother Sister Plays trilogy. He’s been an organization member/choreographer with The HOW for 5 years, the recipient of a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant and a NY Artist Grant, served within the US Army (2011-2016), and labored as a Public/Private School Teacher in NY (2017-2018). His inventive physique of labor facilities on id, historical past, and residential with a give attention to the complexities of Black life, love and liberation. His debut ebook of poetry, Beneath My Body Armor, shall be launched Spring 2023.
Karen Malpede is the creator and generally director of twenty-two performs. She co-founded Theater Three Collaborative with George Bartenieff and Lee Nagrin in 1995. They are identified for his or her social justice, ecofeminist poetic performs of which Troy Too is the latest. Carol Martin is a Professor of Drama at New York University. Her latest books, Theatre of the Real and Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage, study the methods a variety of worldwide theatre and efficiency participates within the development of the true and theorizes how we come to know, expertise, and perceive the vital occasions of our private, social, and political lives. She is a visitor editor of three particular problems with TDR “Performing the City,” “Reclaiming the Real,” and “Documentary Theatre.” Her many essays and ebook chapters have been translated into a number of languages. Her present venture is on home museum’s efficiency of private and non-private house.
Carol Martin is a Professor of Drama at New York University. Her latest books, Theatre of the Real and Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage, study the methods a variety of worldwide theatre and efficiency participates within the development of the true and theorizes how we come to know, expertise, and perceive the vital occasions of our private, social, and political lives. She is a visitor editor of three particular problems with TDR “Performing the City,” “Reclaiming the Real,” and “Documentary Theatre.” Her many essays and ebook chapters have been translated into a number of languages. Her present venture is on home museum’s efficiency of private and non-private house.
Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor of Theatre on the Open University of Cyprus and Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company. She has printed extensively on directing principle and follow, up to date efficiency, and dramaturgy and is the creator of Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). She was a Visiting Scholar on the Martin E. Segal Centre at CUNY, Columbia University, Freie University in Berlin and the University of Tokyo. Avra just lately directed Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal on the Cyprus Theatre Organization and Enter Hamlet on the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival and is at the moment staging Karen Malpede’s Troy Too at Here Arts Center (NY). She was a nominee for the LPTW 2020 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award.
Di Zhu is a Chinese-American actress, pianist, and theater producer primarily based in NYC. She is at the moment enjoying the position of Mozart in Alexander Pushkin’s Mozart and Salieri (And Scene From Faust), now enjoying at The Russian Arts Theater and Studio. Other choose appearances embody Animal Farm, Yama The Hellhole, Another Life, The Beekeeper’s Daughter, The Waiter and The Slut, The Rise and Fall of Macondo, Enemies Of The People and Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Film and TV credit embody Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (with Tina Fey and Margot Robbie), NBC’s The Blindspot, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (with Tom Hanks) and WeCrashed (with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway). Website.