Quality Judgements and Demand for French Public Theatre

Regression models often reveal a low statistical significance for the quality variables that are used to explain theatrical demand. I posit that opposing opinions on quality are the cause of this. A regression equation is constructed in order to explain demand, with continuous variables for price and volume, and with dummy variables for drama critics, directors-cum-managers, growth in funding by public authorities and repertoire classification. I use detailed data on demand for French theatrical institutions in 1995 and 1996 to test this model. To some extent, the results support the hypothesis that the media reputation of shows, as expressed in the form of drama reviews, and the artistic reputation of directors-cum-managers, which are listed on the programme, havean opposite effect on attendance. Nevertheless, the least squares coefficients show that the most reliable sign of quality remains the reputation of the theatrical institution.     

克服编辑心理误区提高科技期刊质量

科技编辑在审读稿件的过程中，可能由于陷入某种心理误区而影响工作质量或效率。笔者分析了造成编辑审读心理误区的“专业势垒”、“剧场幻象”、“单向刺激”、“语言究形”等4种现象，并提供走出这些误区的相应措施。     

品特在中国:回顾与反思

由于种种原因,国内对2005年诺贝尔文学奖得主哈罗德·品特的认识还有待深入.回顾品特戏剧在中国介绍、翻译、研究和演出的过程,可以看出中、英两种语境中的品特实际上是有差异的.这种差异在很大程度上源于中英两国历史条件、社会状况和文化氛围的不同.比较品特在中国以及在俄罗斯的接受情况,上述原因会更为明显.对此原因的理解有助于我们准确地认识和理解品特.     

Playlinks: a theatre-for-young audiences artist-in-the-classroom project

ABSTRACT

Playlinks, the project documented in this paper, contributed a theatre-based artist-in-the-classroom study to the Community Arts Zone initiative. Playlinks involved 248 elementary school classrooms in pre- and post-production workshops connected to live theatre that visited their schools. Data sources included researcher field notes, teacher evaluation forms, and interviews with both teachers and theatre personnel. Findings focus on teacher perceptions of three topics: (a) student engagement, (b) learning across cognitive and affective domains, and (c) benefits for teachers. The discussion section addresses implementation problems related to artist-in-the-classroom projects.     

论露丝在《归家》中的角色

哈罗德·品特作为英国当代戏剧大师 ,为荒诞派戏剧做出了卓越的贡献。他在作品《归家》中塑造了露丝这个多元性角色 ,从美国家中的妻子和母亲到伦敦家中的“母亲”以及后来的职业妓女 ,露丝的角色实现了荒诞的飞跃。     

古希腊悲剧与元杂剧叙事方式差异性之探源——中西戏剧文化背景的差异性

古希腊悲剧和元杂剧皆为中西方戏剧的成熟形态,然二者在戏剧的叙事方式上有着明显的差异性:古希腊悲剧多倒叙、插叙等叙事方式,表现为锁闭式的结构;中国元杂剧则基本采用平铺直叙的叙事方式,式开放式的戏剧结构。这两种典型的叙事方式之形成与其生长的文化土壤、逻辑观念、民族性格有着紧密的联系。     

‘History taught in the pageant way’: education and historical performance in twentieth-century Britain

ABSTRACT

Historical pageants were important sites of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. They took place in many places and sometimes on a large scale, in settings ranging from small villages to industrial cities. They were staged by schools, churches, professional organisations, women’s groups and political parties, among others. This article draws on contemporary studies of heritage and performance to explore the blend of history, myth and fiction that characterised pageants, and the ways in which they both shaped and reflected the self-image of local communities. Pageants were important channels of popular education as well as entertainment and, although they are sometimes seen as backward-looking and conservative spectacles, this article argues that pageants could be an effective means of enlisting the past in the service of the present and future.     

表演:教育生活的一种隐喻

在日常话语体系中,对表演的成见支配着人们对表演的理解。但从人类行为学的角度来看,表演是人类基本的生活方式和存在方式之一。将表演引入教育生活中,可以提高教学的有效性,深化师生对自我的认识、对交往和教育本源性关系的认识及对生命存在与发展的认识。     

Cultural Continuities

ABSTRACT

This article studies the Nazis' enthusiastic embrace of theatre in the period before and during the Second World War, and places this in a longer tradition of political power and the theatre in Germany. It argues that Hitler, Goering and Goebbels oversaw a ‘restoration’ of German theatre in the later 1930s, aiming to restore the emotional link between audience, Kultur and nation, for their own political purposes.     

‘I learned to accept every part of myself’: the transformative impact of a theatre-based sexual health and HIV prevention programme

The family—via communication (or lack thereof)—is a primary avenue for sexuality education. While most research on family sexuality communication has examined the content of parent–child communication (e.g. topics discussed), relatively few studies have assessed the process, the way in which communication occurs. This paper presents an analysis of communication process based on data collected during a qualitative, observational study of family sexuality communication with thirty low‐ and middle‐income African American mothers and their adolescent daughters living in an urban area in the southeastern USA. Two dimensions of communication process emerged: affective and stylistic. Elements of the affective dimension included connection, empathy, comfort, anger, and silence. Elements of the stylistic dimension included interactive versus didactic communication styles, use of a variety of persuasive techniques, body language, and setting. Results suggest that the process of sexuality communication is as, if not more, important than content and that affectively open and stylistically interactive sexuality communication is related to the context of close and connected mother–daughter relationships.