Homely Comfort in the Ancient World: Furniture Textiles in Classical and Hellenistic Iconography

The dining room, or "triclinium," of a Roman house derived its name from the three couches that were grouped at right angles to one another in a U-shape. Wealthy citizens ate while reclining on these couches. On this example, bronze fittings decorate a wood frame (restored). Straps originally would have supported a mattress covered with luxurious textiles. The ends of the couch are decorated with bronze fulcra, the curving ends of the armrests, which terminate in lion heads in the front and d...

John Mulaney hilariously explains entire Field Of Dreams plot on Oscars stage

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Trip Beyond the House of Craving - A

(Originally written July 10, 2019).PLUS ONE, n. (+) The drug is quite certainly active. The chronology can be determined with some accuracy, but the nature of the drug’s effects are not yet apparent.[1]Shulgin and Shulgin 1990.For some larps it is easy to write about the experience in a way that will make sense to those who were not there. I can describe the events of the larp as a narrative, perhaps focussing on some of the significant set piece moments of the experience, and this will enabl...

On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

From Leir to Lear

From Leir to Lear Shakespeare, literary architect, performs a gut renovation and creates a classic. The execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot: Claes Jansz Visscher’s contemporary etching depicts Londoners gazing from rooftops, windows and streets as four Gunpowder plotters are drawn to the site of execution. James Shapiro ’77 is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature and an eminent Shakespeare specialist: the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at New Yo...

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...

Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation - Broadway World

Film at Lincoln Center announces The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice, from January 5-14. Widely hailed as one of this century's great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele's era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif and home-invasio...

John Greyson Un©ut

the crime of three peters by Douglas Messerli John Greyson (screenwriter and director) Un©ut/ 1997 Canadian director John Greyson may be one of the most original and talented of late 20th century LGBTQ filmmakers. His Zero Patience (1993) and Lillies (1997) are both near the top of my lists of favorite LGBTQ works, and I’ve still to see several of his films which are often difficult to obtain in the US, an odd fact since, as this film argues against, rights and permissions (ou...

Reloading Laughter: Žižek and a Theory of Comedy

Despite his reputation for telling jokes and the central role that humor plays in his philosophy, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek does not have a theory of comedy. In his work, Žižek does not just tell jokes or explain the popularity of certain genres such as Holocaust comedy films. He has also made brief interventions in the theory of comedy that include mostly applications of Hegel’s theory of objective humor or Alenka Zupančič’s Hegelian theory of comedy. At the outset of the "The C...

CFP: Exhibition in Crisis, Aniki 10, no. 2

Hi all, Along with my colleagues Ross Melnick and Rafael de Luna, I am co-editing a special section of the July 2023 issue of Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image on the topic of "Exhibition in Crisis." We seek to draw attention to the transformative effect that crises past and present have had on film exhibition as a mode of cultural practice, a set of institutions and actors, and an object of research in film and media studies. In this dossier, we hope to investigate the concept ...

The Last Metro - Amber Wilkinson - 17706

"Depardieu's role feels underwritten, although you can't fault Truffaut for an accurate assessment of not just his character but the star when someone describes Bernard as being "a little like Jean Gabin, physical yet gentle"." | Photo: Courtesy of BFI/Jean-Pierre Fizet The confines of a theatre in occupied Paris provide the setting for a stew of stories in Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro - with the theatre a symbol of several types of escape. T...

Structural Play: 8 Books That Challenge Genre and Style

My novel Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, out now from Feminist Press, is a coming-of-age novel in which the styles and modes seem to grow up (or refuse to) with its protagonist. The former head detective of a juvenile friend-group series modeled after The Baby-Sitters Club (crossed with Nancy Drew and Goosebumps), Margaret has aged out of this genre and "graduated" to a young adult problem novel. Her path includes adventures in queer body horror and an escape to the realm of aut...

1990s movie theaters and their outer space themed carpets

Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)               American cultural aesthetics have adopted some particularly strange fads throughout the decades, but few strike that particular chord of nostalgic resonance as well as late-’90s movie theater carpets—those thousands upon thousands of square feet of garish, neon-colored cosmic bodies, squiggly lines, and splatter paint set against dingy black backdrops. As it turns out, that strain of floor fashion can be largely traced back to Pattern Patient Z...

The Duality of Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist - RE Cleaning Up false name given by Nancy

Menu Skip to primary content Search Dalal T. Al Shareif TA. English Department/ Literature The Duality of Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist The Duality of Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist by Alaa’ M. Al. Dhahiri Nancy is one of the Charles Dickens’s characters in Oliver Twist. The author of the novel, Charles Dickens show...

A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich

A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in accord with strict adherence to moral principle. The situation, however, is not so straightforward.  The plot, based on the historical record, is well known. King Henry VIII’s desire for a son leads him to seek a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Thomas More, previously named Lord Chancellor of England, is a devou...

Rhythm 0 - Wikipedia

Open main menu Home Random Nearby Log in Settings About Wikipedia Disclaimers Search Rhythm 0 Language Watch Edit Rhythm 0 (1974) was a six-hour work of performance...

The outdoor opera Sweet Land summons ghost of Los Angeles history

Antonin Artaud

Antonin ArtaudSourceURL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/antonin-artaud Poetry Foundation Antonin Artaud, considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern drama theory, was born in Marseilles, France, and he studied at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur. He moved to Paris, where he associated with surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theater groups during the 1920s. When political differenc...

Memory as Theater

Cats on Broadway

Socratic Theater

SectionsSEARCHSkip to contentSkip to site indexTheaterLog InSunday, May 12, 2019Subscribe NowLog InToday’s PaperTheater|Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher AnswersSupported bySocrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher AnswersSocrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher AnswersMichael Stuhlbarg as the title character in Tim Blake Nelson’s new play, "Socrates," in previews at the Public Theater.CreditSara Krulwich/The New York TimesImageMichael Stuhlbarg as the title character ...