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2007 -- 2005: total directing & total acting Links Featured Pages: WRITE directory Ant Theatre I made three new directories for my own writing: Plays, Non-Fiction and Textbooks. ... Summary The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks) by Oswald Spengler Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed the origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has been) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the West alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change each day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored. The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the blessing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (translated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by explanatory passages which have been put into English by Arthur Helps. H. Stuart Hughes has written a new introduction for this edition. In this engrossing and highly controversial philosophy of history, Spengler describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity. Guided by the philosophies of Goethe and Nietzsche, he rejects linear progression, and instead presents a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations. He argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of a definable landscape and dies when it has exhausted all of its possibilities. Despite Spengler's reputation today as an extreme pessimist, The Decline of the West remains essential reading for anyone interested in the history of civilization. Questions Notes The Dramatist's Toolkit Solving Your Script Art Of Dramatic Writing ^ This is DramLit "showcase" ^ Theatre on the Web: Film Acting: Eisenstein vs. Pudovkin (two original concepts) * * The Theatre--Advancing by Edward Gordon Craig; Little, Brown & Company, 1919 - Part I - A Plea for Two Theatres: This Essay Is Dedicated to the Tired Business Man - A Durable Theatre - The Modern Theatre, and Another - In Defence of the Artist - The Open Air - Belief and Make-Believe: A Footnote to "The Actor and the Über-Marionette." - Imagination - Part II - Theatrical Reform - Public Opinion - Proposals Old and New: A Dialogue Between A Theatrical Manager and An Artist of the Theatre. - Part III - Gentlemen, the Marionette! - On Masks: By A Bishop and by Me - Shakespeares Collaborators - In a Restaurant - "Literary" Theatres - Art or Imitation?: A Plea for An Enquiry After the Missing Laws of the Art - A Conversation with Jules Champfleury - The Theatre in Italy: Naples and Pompeii: A Letter to John Semar - Church and Stage: in Rome: "When in Rome Do as the Romans Do." - Thoroughness in the Theatre - On Learning Magic: A Dialogue Many Times Repeated - Tuition in Art: A Note to the Younger Generation of Theatrical Students - On the Old School of Acting - A Letter to Ellen Terry - Yvette Guilbert - Sada Yacco - New Departures - The Wise and the Foolish Virgins - To Eleonora Duse - Ladies, Temperament and Discipline - Part IV - The Copyright Law: A Suggestion for An Amendment - The New Theme: Poverty - The Voice - Theatrical Love - Realism, or Nerve-Tickling - The Poet and Motion Pictures - The True Hamlet - The Futurists - Fire! Fire! 2006: Waiting for Godot NEW: webook.com/project/Red-Terror -- how to work on trilogy [ A Chorus Line.ET, Diaspora.Ethio and Red Terror] my groups.google.com/group/playwright [FAQ] ... 2009 and After

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"Mikhail Chekhov v zapadnom teatre i kino" (Mikhail Chekhov in Western Theatre and Cinema) (560 pp.) It was published in St.Petersburg by Akademicheski proekt and the Alexander Institute of University of Helsinki, (series: Sovremennaia zapadnaia rusistika) ISBN 5-7331-0212-8.

The book was accepted as a Ph.D. dissertation by the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, in October. The book is a complete chronological history of Mikhail Chekhov´s work as actor, director and teacher in emigration. Sharon Marie Carnicke writes in her final report to University of Helsinki: " --- Liisa Byckling employed research methods of the highest order to collect her material, assembling an enormous amount of information from the various countries in which Chekhov worked (Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, France, England and the United States). She uncovered information about his acting, about the several studios and schools he established (most notably in Dartington, England, and Ridgefield, Connecticut), and about his many directorial projects that came to fruition in the West. She relied upon archives, periodical reviews, personal interviews, and rare books in the absence of other sources. Remarkable as well, has been her ability to organize this mass of information into an elegant chronological tale.

--- As such, the book will become an invaluable resource to scholars who wish to examine any aspect of Chekhov's work."

The book is available from the publishers. Contact Mrs. Elina Kahla, Alexander Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Po Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland * e-mail: kikimora-publications@helsinki.fi * http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri

The new issue of *Theatre Survey* ( 41.2, November 2000) contains a joint review by Felicia Hardison Londre of two new books in English:
Leach and Borovsky's A History of Russian Theatre & Smeliansky's Russian Theatre After Stalin

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