CUNY Academic Commons | Elizabeth Hickman | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ehickman/activity/ Activity feed for Elizabeth Hickman. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c31877ce5ab87a57fb6a29ab55f20838 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1713 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:20 -0400 From May 15 to 19, 2014, the symposium, “Theatre as a Laboratory for Community Interaction” convened in Holstebro, Denmark at Eugenio Barba’s Odin Teatret (founded in 1964 in Oslo, Norway) by the theatre’s […]

]]> cca04ae4f84841a85ee8ddb45b385b8d Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1705 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:45:52 -0400 The British theatre has always derived enormous, even savage pleasure from depicting the antics of its social misfits, eccentrics, and manipulators. Two recent productions, one Jacobean and the other contemporary, […]

]]> a01a7edbef53bfb453232d0a44c971ef Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1546 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:44:20 -0400 Pornography, perhaps the best known novel by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, has been freed from the pages of the book and has been “re-written” for one of the most famous Italian stages, thanks to an e […]

]]> e8a5a8796c18bb57862768158359cbb5 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1555 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:20:15 -0400 During a week’s visit to Madrid in the fall of 2014, I saw six productions. All but one of these was in the little auditorium of a larger playhouse, in a new alternative theatre, or in a cultural center. Except f […]

]]> fbf6cc2b79f157a8df29defff7c1218b Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1270 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:37:25 -0500 Luc Bondy and Ödön von Horváth

It is 1918. No less than 7,000,000 (two thirds) of the 11,000,000 Germans conscripted to fight in the “Great War”—could there be a more inappropriate epithet?—are dead, wounded, […]

]]> ab2b992d81f3bbc2331a6685d3c051e4 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1364 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:36:35 -0500 One of the nine performers belonging to the Mladinsko Theatre company from Slovenia stands on the empty stage facing the Romanian audience huddled in a small black box venue and tells us how the director of the […]

]]> 91aa63ee20c46b757abc173268ee0150 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1360 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:35:13 -0500 The English playwright Helen Edmundson’s play, The Clearing (1993), is set in County Kildare, Ireland, during the years 1652-1655, the period when the triumphant Cromwell launched a massive campaign of retaliation […]

]]> d6ad657ba60dd421969253973d6dad37 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1331 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:34:33 -0500 At the time of writing, Spain’s principal gateway to the outside world is being expensively re-branded as the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid-Barajas Airport in honor of the recently-deceased ex-President, the first […]

]]> 4e9cfe61bcd718217e677991853f1129 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1410 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:33:50 -0500 The Avignon Festival has a new director and a new direction. Forty-nine year-old Olivier Py, former director of the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, playwright, poet, director and novelist, is determined to build a […]

]]> 593b323d46696b2e78a7679e252b2c64 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1372 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:30:32 -0500 2013 was a year of protests in Bulgaria. The cold, dark, early days of the year brought about what was later called “hunger revolts” and “electricity bills revolts:” people went out on the streets because they […]

]]> 5fa9c3f81218c3a3db131d147d1f71af Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1379 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:28:31 -0500 This past June, as the Flemish theatre season waned, I had a chance to see a few fascinating selections from this lively theatre community. In the wake of a momentous election which saw the rise of the Extreme […]

]]> 635a00c3cd946276360fc6743c42551b Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1388 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:24:56 -0500 ThumbnailThe Avignon Fringe Festival took place between the 5th and the 27th of July. If the Avignon Theatre Festival is one of the biggest of the world, it is due to the Fringe Festival. The dimensions of the Fringe […]

]]> 10469513978c828b12c98adb351584d6 Elizabeth Hickman wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1347 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:01:37 -0500 In the Northwest of Northern Ireland in the county of Fermanagh lies the small island town of Enniskillen. On a hill above the town is Portora Royal, a school chartered under Queen Elizabeth I, which Samuel […]

]]> 593978283176f98e3cbb471f7b011c7f Elizabeth Hickman became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/303279/ Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:02:44 -0400