Performing Arts

This volume brings together four long out-of-print Honig translations: Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult, Devotion to the Cross, The Phantom Lady, and The Mayor of Zalamea, joined by the ever popular Life is a Dream and the newly translated, never before published version of The Crown of Absalom. Six Plays will make Calderon’s work available to a new generation of readers.

This contemporary dramatization from a revered Peking Opera classic was performed in Beijing after the revolution. Accompanied by two audiocassettes and a book, which, utilizing revised Chinese characters, acts as a Chinese-language libretto for the recording; it has been consistently used in Chinese language courses.

Translated to English from its original Venetian dialect by John D. Mitchel, The Green Bird is a fairy tale written by the 18th century Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi. An evil queen, a dim king, a princess and a mysterious green bird inhabit the world of Carlo Gozzi’s theatrical fantasy. It is the story of a dysfunctional royal family where the evil mother in-law, Tartagliona buries her daughter in-law, the Queen, under the royal toilets. First performed in 18th century Venice, The Green Bird is often revived, charming contemporary audiences with its playful take on familiar fairy tale forms and wowing them with its sheer theatrical imagination. This book is complete with stage directions.

A free-verse translation of Bhasa's Sanskrit play dating back to 400 B. C. Accompanied by directorial notes of Mrinalini Sarabhai, along with line drawings of the mudras or hand gestures essential to the authenticity of expression in Sanskrit plays, with the original and the translation on facing pages.

This new translation is annotated with the comments of Yuri Zavadski, one of Russia's most acclaimed and decorated stage directors. Drawing fro his extensive experience directing under the aegis of both Stanislovski and Vakhtagnov, Zavadski illumi-nates the text of Chekhov's dramatic masterpiece.

The appeal of Asian Theater in America today confirms that the theatre of the Far East is a remarkable and catalytic experience for a Western audience. Staging Japanese Theatre presents two complete plays in the theatrical forms of Noh and Kabuki. Each play appears in Japanese with English translations on facing pages and is pre-ceded by a brief history of the theatre form and the evolution of the production. The text contains an abundance of photographs, diagrams, and the stage directions from the IASTA performance.

This Peking Opera tale from the Song Dynasty was the likely catalyst for Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird. Newly translated and adapted, it contains the original Chinese text on facing pages. Paired with The Green Bird, the two plays vividly contrast the dramaturgy of two diverse cultures within the same basic story.

A collection of twenty-five years of research on theatre styles from around the world, Theatre, The Search for Style contains interviews with over twenty acclaimed directors on the Commedia Dell'Arte, Peking Opera, Kabuki and Noh theatre, Sanskrit, The Spanish Golden Age, Greek theatre, American Musical Comedy, Phedre, Chekhov, Brecht, and Racine.

This timeless Spanish Morality play is an exciting and humorous 17th Century look at the follies and vices of human beings. Written by José de Valdivieso in 1602, the play is included with director's notes from the 1972 IASTA production and exceptional illustrations of the expressionistic costumes used in the production.