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Home > Publications Thursday, 06 May 2010 Hyperion for printing and reading
Posted in /Publications Home > Publications Monday, 03 May 2010 New issue of Hyperion now on lineThe May 2010 issue of Hyperion: On the future of aesthetics is now on line, the journal re-appearing after a too-long hiatus. Of special interest in this issue is a special section on dramatist Howard Barker, also the subject of next Monday's Howard Barker at the Segal Center event. For those unfamiliar with Barker's recent work, Hyperion is a
treasure- Of special interest are the paintings by Barker which illustrate the essays, of which very few have been available on line or in print, revealing a remarkable visual imagination that parallels that of his dramatic and lyric work. And that's not all, of course; this issue of Hyperion also features a previously untranslated series of aphorisms by E.M. Cioran, several poems, and discussions of Butoh theatre as well as the work of Kleist, Peter Greenaway, Le Corbusier and William Eggleston. It is a splendid issue; I will post a link to the full printable .pdf as soon as it's available. For now, you can visit the Web version here. Posted in /Publications Home > Publications Wednesday, 21 April 2010 Time waits for no manMatthew Freeman asked yesterday, "How much time can we have for artistic expression that doesn't pay, when our decisions affect the comfort and health of someone helpless? ... If you have, or are starting, a family ... how has it affected your approach to your work in theater, if at all?" Well, I'm here to tell him that it's all in the timing. While the past three months or so have been exclusively devoted to my wife and my two daughters (as well as the day job that helps keep us all fed), the last two months or so of 2009 were spent writing, proofing and planning. And what I plant in winter blossoms in spring. My review of Marc Robinson's The American Play: 1787–2000 appears in the new May 2010 issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art: the tantalizing first page of the review is here (subscribers can download a .pdf of the full article). Also due in May 2010, my long essay "The Booking of the Play" will be published in Theater magazine from the Yale School of Drama; Hyperion: On the future of aesthetics will publish my talk about Samuel Beckett, Richard Foreman and Howard Barker, delivered at the University of Aberystwyth last summer; and I write a short piece about sex and the contemporary American drama for the upcoming issue of Contemporary Theatre Review. And the University of Hertfordshire Press has announced an October 2010 publication date for Karoline Gritzner's Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance, for which I wrote a chapter on German and Austrian music, film, theatre and prose between 1918 and 1933; other writers appearing in the book are David Rudkin, David Ian Rabey and Howard Barker. Last, but certainly not least, was the gratifyingly successful workshop reading of What She Knew in February. Hunkamania? Not really. As my wife points out, this wouldn't be a bad
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