Letters to the Editor
Plus a few corrections.
September 1984
Window to the World
What the Olympic Arts Festival and the TCG National Conference showed us about our theatre and our world.
‘A Question of Certainties’
After more than a quarter century in the theatre, Athol Fugard has found a new vantage point from which to review his past and conjecture about the future.
Imagining the Greeks
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?
Experiencing the Other
TCG’s Amherst conference was a landmark gathering rich in unexpected connections among forms, disciplines and far-flung cultures.
On Art and Understanding
Excerpts from the keynote address of TCG’s 1984 National Conference, delivered by the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Festival in Johnson Chapel of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Stages
New plays from around the world and closer to home.
Trends
A halt to theatre demolition and the latest on LORT/AEA negotiations.
From ‘Midsummer’
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
Updating Classics: A Revamped Verdi Fuels the Fray
Jonathan Miller’s ‘Rigoletto’ taps the work’s Shakespearean roots, via a transplant to Little Italy.
