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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@standardebook

    R.U.R is an amazing play. One of the best uses of creeping dread / doom I have read in literature. Worth reading - and in the public domain thanks to @standardebooks

    #Books #Bookstodon #Theatre #Theater #Drama #scifi #ScienceFiction #SFF #Capek #KarelCapek #Robot #Robots

  2. RE: mastodon.social/@standardebook

    R.U.R is an amazing play. One of the best uses of creeping dread / doom I have read in literature. Worth reading - and in the public domain thanks to @standardebooks

    #Books #Bookstodon #Theatre #Theater #Drama #scifi #ScienceFiction #SFF #Capek #KarelCapek #Robot #Robots

  3. Neuer Termin: Am 15.08. in #Leipzig um 19:30 Uhr:

    :blobmiou: Abendveranstaltung "Kein Humor ist auch keine Lösung" Jean-Philippe Kindler

    Immer neue Frechheiten von Politik und Konzernen verschlagen uns gerade fast täglich die Sprache.
    Nur: Kein Humor ist auch keine Lösung!
    Unser Therapie-Vorschlag: Ein Abend mit einem, der nie …

    Ort: Garten hinter dem Volkshaus

    planlos-leipzig.org/events/abe

    #le1508 #Theater

  4. Neuer Termin: Am 15.08. in #Leipzig um 19:30 Uhr:

    :blobmiou: Abendveranstaltung "Kein Humor ist auch keine Lösung" Jean-Philippe Kindler

    Immer neue Frechheiten von Politik und Konzernen verschlagen uns gerade fast täglich die Sprache.
    Nur: Kein Humor ist auch keine Lösung!
    Unser Therapie-Vorschlag: Ein Abend mit einem, der nie …

    Ort: Garten hinter dem Volkshaus

    planlos-leipzig.org/events/abe

    #le1508 #Theater

  5. Seit ziemlich genau 10 Jahren bin ich Autorin. Grund genug, zurückzuschauen und Revue passieren zu lassen, was literarisch so alles passiert ist.

    Mein dritter Roman war „König und Meister“ – ein Mystery Thriller, in dem Ada König versucht, das dunkle Geheimnis ihrer Familie zu lüften. Der Roman war für mich eine sehr persönliche Auseinandersetzung mit meiner eigenen Familiengeschichte.

    #lookingback #10jahre #KM #koenigundmeister #theater #literatur #phantastik #preis #ffb #fuerstenfeldbruck

  6. Seit ziemlich genau 10 Jahren bin ich Autorin. Grund genug, zurückzuschauen und Revue passieren zu lassen, was literarisch so alles passiert ist.

    Mein dritter Roman war „König und Meister“ – ein Mystery Thriller, in dem Ada König versucht, das dunkle Geheimnis ihrer Familie zu lüften. Der Roman war für mich eine sehr persönliche Auseinandersetzung mit meiner eigenen Familiengeschichte.

    #lookingback #10jahre #KM #koenigundmeister #theater #literatur #phantastik #preis #ffb #fuerstenfeldbruck

  7. Anfang Juli habe ich die Aufführung „Der Paragraphenreiter“ des #TheaterDerVerrückten erlebt.
    Maximilian Brose hat Hintergründe, Proben und Aufführung in diesem sehr hörenswerten DLF-Beitrag verarbeitet. Es geht um Leben mit psychischen Erkrankungen oder Suchterfahrung, Machtstrukturen und den Umgang mit Mitteln des Theaters:
    „Theater der Verrückten“ – Szenen aus dem echten Leben
    share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-

    #Psychiatrie #Sucht #Improv #Theater

  8. Anfang Juli habe ich die Aufführung „Der Paragraphenreiter“ des #TheaterDerVerrückten erlebt.
    Maximilian Brose hat Hintergründe, Proben und Aufführung in diesem sehr hörenswerten DLF-Beitrag verarbeitet. Es geht um Leben mit psychischen Erkrankungen oder Suchterfahrung, Machtstrukturen und den Umgang mit Mitteln des Theaters:
    „Theater der Verrückten“ – Szenen aus dem echten Leben
    share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-

    #Psychiatrie #Sucht #Improv #Theater

  9. “All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players”*…

    The melancholy Jaques is surely right, at the metaphorical level at which Shakespeare operated. But others have been moved to treat that wisdom much more literally. Mathilde Montpetit offers a fascinating example…

    “This is an age of formulations”, the actress Genevieve Stebbins [see here] declared in 1886. Auguste Comte had formulated positivism in science, Henry Thomas Buckle had done the same for history, and Herbert Spencer for culture. Even visual art had had its fundamental theories set out, in John Ruskin’s five-volume Modern Painters (1843–60). “It is as though the world”, she reflected, “growing weary of productive activity, sought to pause and reärrange before plunging into further depths; to rescue from the void and formless mass of collected material a system whose symmetry and beauty should embody all that is worth saving”. And why wouldn’t the dramatic arts deserve — indeed, need — the same treatment? But who would be able to do it?

    Such a man did exist, but he had died in 1871, leaving his findings unpublished. Luckily, some of his apostles still lived. Stebbins breathlessly narrates her journey to deepest darkest Nanterre to find the Abbé Delaumosne. “What I can I do for you, my child?” he asks. In the Cathedral of Sainte Geneviève and Saint Maurice, he bestows upon her the holy teachings: the French singer and orator François Delsarte’s system of dramatic expression.

    Stebbins had first learned about the Delsarte System from Steele MacKaye [see here], an American playwright and actor who had met Delsarte in Paris and “like a John the Baptist, came back to America to prepare the New World for [His] coming”. In 1876, Stebbins had retired from the stage to devote herself entirely to a Delsartean training at MacKaye’s hands: by 1880, she was teaching it herself. The Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression, first published in 1885, was both a philosophical synthesis and a practical guide, providing both intellectual background and exercises for the cultivation of dramatic genius.

    Written in the voice of an ongoing set of lessons, taking place over the course of a year, Stebbins was chatty and encouraging: “Very well; you really are making remarkable progress. I wish all my pupils were as intelligent”.

    Delsarte was a strict Trinitarian, in part inspired by the work of the seventeenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (and, it seems, Charles Sanders Peirce [see here]). For him, everything came in threes, especially movement: “All motion is expansive which is objective, which has relation to the exterior world. So Delsarte has named motion from yourself as a centre, excentric. Again we fold in, contract, concentrate our motion in subjective states of mind. So motion to a centre Delsarte has named concentric. Motion between these two extremes, being well balanced, he has aptly termed normal”. These three types of movement could be combined with the three essences (mental, moral, vital) and multiplied into a “ninefold accord”, within which most movements could be graphed [as above].

    Every possible element of a gesture or expression was deconstructed and fit into this rubric, with specific exercises for the “Fingers, Hand, Fore arm, Entire arm, Head, Torso, Foot, Lower leg, Entire leg, Entire body, Eyelids, Lower jaw . . .” Stebbins provided helpful charts, like one that shows the “Simple Combinations of Upper Lid and Brow”. On the next page, she clarified that since both the brow and the lid each have nine possibilities each, there are in fact eighty-one possible combinations (she gave eighteen). The Delsarte System presented here, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter has shown, was full of Stebbins’ own innovations. She had developed the “energizing” techniques to go along with the relaxation ones, and created a whole set of exercises that are still used today in many acting classes…

    … What this system was meant to be, Stebbins repeatedly emphasized, was a training system, a form of “aesthetic gymnastics”. So:

    When before the public in the pulpit, on the platform, or the stage, forget all rules, or rather make no effort to recall them. Your motto there should be heart-work, not head-work.

    “Then why study art’s rules and formulæ?” I hear you ask.

    Because much of your practice will cling to you, without conscious thought; because nature rarely showers all her gifts on one head. Inspiration may be yours without bodily power to express; or you may be virtuosos without “the still small voice within.”

    More on — and many more illustrations from — this 19th century manual on systemizing the way in which life is art and art is life: “Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression,” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    * Shakespeare, As You Like It Act II, Scene VII

    ###

    As we rehearse, we might recall that it was on this date in 1927 that Wings premiered at the Criterion Theater, in New York City. A “romantic action-war picture,” it featured Army Air Corps aviators in battle (and in love). While most features at the time were shot on lots or studio-controlled locations with limited casts and budgets, Wings was shot on location at Kelly Field in San Antonio over 8 months; hundreds of extras (including some 300 pilots were involved in the filming, including pilots and planes of the Army Air Corps) on a (then massive) budget of $2 million. The investment paid off: While Wings was recognized for the expressive emoting of its (silent) cast, it was acclaimed for its realistic action sequences and technical prowess, and became the yardstick against which future war– but especially aviation– films were measured. It won the first Best Picture in the inaugural Academy Award ceremony (in 1929), and remains the only fully-silent film to do so. (A “sound” version of Wings was ultimately produced, but has no audible dialogue, only a synchronized musical score with sound effects.)

    source

    #acting #art #culture #Drama #dramaticExpression #expression #film #FrançoisDelsarte #GenevieveStebbins #history #literature #movies #SteeleMacKaye #Swedenborg #theater #Wings
  10. “All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players”*…

    The melancholy Jaques is surely right, at the metaphorical level at which Shakespeare operated. But others have been moved to treat that wisdom much more literally. Mathilde Montpetit offers a fascinating example…

    “This is an age of formulations”, the actress Genevieve Stebbins [see here] declared in 1886. Auguste Comte had formulated positivism in science, Henry Thomas Buckle had done the same for history, and Herbert Spencer for culture. Even visual art had had its fundamental theories set out, in John Ruskin’s five-volume Modern Painters (1843–60). “It is as though the world”, she reflected, “growing weary of productive activity, sought to pause and reärrange before plunging into further depths; to rescue from the void and formless mass of collected material a system whose symmetry and beauty should embody all that is worth saving”. And why wouldn’t the dramatic arts deserve — indeed, need — the same treatment? But who would be able to do it?

    Such a man did exist, but he had died in 1871, leaving his findings unpublished. Luckily, some of his apostles still lived. Stebbins breathlessly narrates her journey to deepest darkest Nanterre to find the Abbé Delaumosne. “What I can I do for you, my child?” he asks. In the Cathedral of Sainte Geneviève and Saint Maurice, he bestows upon her the holy teachings: the French singer and orator François Delsarte’s system of dramatic expression.

    Stebbins had first learned about the Delsarte System from Steele MacKaye [see here], an American playwright and actor who had met Delsarte in Paris and “like a John the Baptist, came back to America to prepare the New World for [His] coming”. In 1876, Stebbins had retired from the stage to devote herself entirely to a Delsartean training at MacKaye’s hands: by 1880, she was teaching it herself. The Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression, first published in 1885, was both a philosophical synthesis and a practical guide, providing both intellectual background and exercises for the cultivation of dramatic genius.

    Written in the voice of an ongoing set of lessons, taking place over the course of a year, Stebbins was chatty and encouraging: “Very well; you really are making remarkable progress. I wish all my pupils were as intelligent”.

    Delsarte was a strict Trinitarian, in part inspired by the work of the seventeenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (and, it seems, Charles Sanders Peirce [see here]). For him, everything came in threes, especially movement: “All motion is expansive which is objective, which has relation to the exterior world. So Delsarte has named motion from yourself as a centre, excentric. Again we fold in, contract, concentrate our motion in subjective states of mind. So motion to a centre Delsarte has named concentric. Motion between these two extremes, being well balanced, he has aptly termed normal”. These three types of movement could be combined with the three essences (mental, moral, vital) and multiplied into a “ninefold accord”, within which most movements could be graphed [as above].

    Every possible element of a gesture or expression was deconstructed and fit into this rubric, with specific exercises for the “Fingers, Hand, Fore arm, Entire arm, Head, Torso, Foot, Lower leg, Entire leg, Entire body, Eyelids, Lower jaw . . .” Stebbins provided helpful charts, like one that shows the “Simple Combinations of Upper Lid and Brow”. On the next page, she clarified that since both the brow and the lid each have nine possibilities each, there are in fact eighty-one possible combinations (she gave eighteen). The Delsarte System presented here, Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter has shown, was full of Stebbins’ own innovations. She had developed the “energizing” techniques to go along with the relaxation ones, and created a whole set of exercises that are still used today in many acting classes…

    … What this system was meant to be, Stebbins repeatedly emphasized, was a training system, a form of “aesthetic gymnastics”. So:

    When before the public in the pulpit, on the platform, or the stage, forget all rules, or rather make no effort to recall them. Your motto there should be heart-work, not head-work.

    “Then why study art’s rules and formulæ?” I hear you ask.

    Because much of your practice will cling to you, without conscious thought; because nature rarely showers all her gifts on one head. Inspiration may be yours without bodily power to express; or you may be virtuosos without “the still small voice within.”

    More on — and many more illustrations from — this 19th century manual on systemizing the way in which life is art and art is life: “Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression,” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    * Shakespeare, As You Like It Act II, Scene VII

    ###

    As we rehearse, we might recall that it was on this date in 1927 that Wings premiered at the Criterion Theater, in New York City. A “romantic action-war picture,” it featured Army Air Corps aviators in battle (and in love). While most features at the time were shot on lots or studio-controlled locations with limited casts and budgets, Wings was shot on location at Kelly Field in San Antonio over 8 months; hundreds of extras (including some 300 pilots were involved in the filming, including pilots and planes of the Army Air Corps) on a (then massive) budget of $2 million. The investment paid off: While Wings was recognized for the expressive emoting of its (silent) cast, it was acclaimed for its realistic action sequences and technical prowess, and became the yardstick against which future war– but especially aviation– films were measured. It won the first Best Picture in the inaugural Academy Award ceremony (in 1929), and remains the only fully-silent film to do so. (A “sound” version of Wings was ultimately produced, but has no audible dialogue, only a synchronized musical score with sound effects.)

    source

    #acting #art #culture #Drama #dramaticExpression #expression #film #FrançoisDelsarte #GenevieveStebbins #history #literature #movies #SteeleMacKaye #Swedenborg #theater #Wings
  11. Ice Cream Man was cartoonishly gory and dumb. It may be fun for others. Watch it if you want. 2/5 :/ #Thoughts #Reaction #Film #Theater #Ticket #FilmSky #IceCreamMan2026

  12. Is er iets veranderd?
    "De discussie over de theatervoorstelling De graanrepubliek houdt niet alleen bezoekers bezig. Ook inwoners in Oldambt reageren verschillend: positief, negatief en dan met name over het beeld van Lenin dat als decorstuk dient.

    De politiek laat inmiddels van zich horen en zelfs vanaf de kansel is het theaterstuk, met name de rol van Lenin, onderwerp van discussie. Hoe is het communisme in deze regio eigenlijk ontstaan? Hoe was de relatie tussen herenboer en landarbeider?
    God van Mammon

    Kees Lavooij, emeritus predikant, liet vanaf de kansel een duidelijke boodschap horen tijdens zijn preek. ,,Het ging over God en de afgoden. God en de Mammon, God van het geld. En op wie vertrouwden de herenboeren in de graanrepubliek? Het merendeel op het graan, het geld. Juist, de God van Mammon.”

    Lavooij laat er geen misverstand over bestaan. ,,De arbeiders zijn destijds misbruikt door de herenboeren. De arbeiders zochten op hun beurt toevlucht tot een andere afgod; Lenin. Dat is de voedingsbodem voor het communisme geweest.”

    De rol van de kerk stelt Lavooij daarbij ook ter discussie. ,,Wat was voor de kerk destijds belangrijk; geld. De herenboeren zaten bijvoorbeeld op dure banken. Maar waarvoor stond de kerk in die tijd? Heulde de kerk mee met de herenboeren? Hoe is de kerk met de arbeiders omgesprongen?” De kerk koos ook hoofdzakelijk voor het geld."

    #graanrepubliek #theater #Groningen

    dvhn.nl/regio/groningen/oldamb

  13. Haven't seen Nolan's Odyssey, but I've seen Robert Wilson's one. Two quite different approaches to myth and art.

    Robert Wilson, 1941-2025

    America's foremost vanguard theater artist, choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W

    Image: Odyssey, National Theater, Athens 2013

    #Art #theater #sculpture #surrealism

  14. Haven't seen Nolan's Odyssey, but I've seen Robert Wilson's one. Two quite different approaches to myth and art.

    Robert Wilson, 1941-2025

    America's foremost vanguard theater artist, choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W

    Image: Odyssey, National Theater, Athens 2013

    #Art #theater #sculpture #surrealism

  15. Fringe review: ‘Underserved: Recipes for Resilience’ is a disorientingly scattershot, if charming, one-woman show – Twin Cities

    Could Be Worse In “Underserved: Recipes for Resilience,” a baking show contestant tells stories of…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #fringefestival #fringe:couldbeworse #Recipes #theater #thingstodo
    diningandcooking.com/2765614/f

  16. Fringe review: ‘Underserved: Recipes for Resilience’ is a disorientingly scattershot, if charming, one-woman show – Twin Cities

    Could Be Worse In “Underserved: Recipes for Resilience,” a baking show contestant tells stories of…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #fringefestival #fringe:couldbeworse #Recipes #theater #thingstodo
    diningandcooking.com/2765614/f

  17. Obviously I wasn’t going to miss Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Seems like nobody missed Spider-Man. And when I went I saw they had this cool alternate poster in addition to the regular one

    #spiderman #brandnewday #spidermanbrandnewday #mcu #marvel #superhero #cinema #movie #theater #movies

  18. Obviously I wasn’t going to miss Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Seems like nobody missed Spider-Man. And when I went I saw they had this cool alternate poster in addition to the regular one

    #spiderman #brandnewday #spidermanbrandnewday #mcu #marvel #superhero #cinema #movie #theater #movies

  19. Kerstin Wittstamm spielt „Das Pferdeauge“: Ein starkes Stück voller Rätsel

    Offene Fragen, bleibender Eindruck: So ist das neue Stück von der Freien Bühne Wendland – eine Rezension

    ejz.de/lokales/kerstin-wittsta

    #Hitzacker #Theater #Geschichte #Museum #Kunst

  20. Eine wunderbare Uraufführungsspielserie von "KOHLE - Brennen für die Steiermark" ist am Samstag auf der Hofbühne Mathans zu Ende gegangen und nun ziehen wir den Thespis Karren noch für fünf weitere Vorstellungen ins #Volkskundemuseum am Paulustor in #Graz - 11. 12. 18. 19. 20. August um 19:00! www.vitaminsofsociety.org

    #Theater #Sommer #Theatersommer #Sommertheater #Musik #Tragikomödie

  21. Neulich bei der Uraufführung von Felix Mitterers „Feuernacht“ in Telfs. Ein besonderer Abend: Die Tiroler Volksschauspiele waren nach meiner Ausbildung in Wien meine erste professionelle Schauspielfamilie - mit Ruth Drexel, Hanns Brenner, Klaus Löwitsch, Gundi Ellert, uva.

    Und Felix schrieb damals „Stigma“ für mich. Ein heiliges, unheiliges Stück.

    Manche Anfänge bleiben für immer. 🎭🧡

    Guten #silentsunday - Abend ⭐
    #theater #erinnerung #lebenundspiel

  22. Neulich bei der Uraufführung von Felix Mitterers „Feuernacht“ in Telfs. Ein besonderer Abend: Die Tiroler Volksschauspiele waren nach meiner Ausbildung in Wien meine erste professionelle Schauspielfamilie - mit Ruth Drexel, Hanns Brenner, Klaus Löwitsch, Gundi Ellert, uva.

    Und Felix schrieb damals „Stigma“ für mich. Ein heiliges, unheiliges Stück.

    Manche Anfänge bleiben für immer. 🎭🧡

    Guten #silentsunday - Abend ⭐
    #theater #erinnerung #lebenundspiel

  23. Nou die vuurvliegjes, dat is onwaarschijnlijk. Mogelijk vloog er wél een velduil over!Geweldig was de avond zeker. 'Komt dat zien!' gisteren in de Citadel in 's-Hertogenbosch. Zie ook foto in mijn tijdlijn.
    #theater #buitentheater #FestivalBoulevard

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxcexkvszgelhkyfv22cuumy/post/3mslkmg7knd2x

  24. Finished editing of pre-show behind the scenes footage that I took earlier this week. I so ❤️ our cast and everyone involved in the show!

    vimeo.com/1216483717

    It is incredibly exciting to see all the pieces coming together into a full blown 2 hour theatrical performance. Acting, lights, props, music, art... there are so many components to making things like this happen, and we have been incredibly lucky to receive help from so many talented people!

    #AfterTheBlast #Theater

  25. Finished editing of pre-show behind the scenes footage that I took earlier this week. I so ❤️ our cast and everyone involved in the show!

    vimeo.com/1216483717

    It is incredibly exciting to see all the pieces coming together into a full blown 2 hour theatrical performance. Acting, lights, props, music, art... there are so many components to making things like this happen, and we have been incredibly lucky to receive help from so many talented people!

    #AfterTheBlast #Theater

  26. Am Samstag, 5. September:

    22. Theaternacht #Hamburg

    Binge-Watching, nur in echt.

    Unter dem Motto „Ganz schön kaputt“ lädt das Ernst Deutsch Theater zum gemeinsamen Erleben eines abwechslungsreichen Programms an der Mundsburg ein. Wir sind Ort der Begegnung, des Austauschs und der Vielfalt und freuen uns auf euch!

    ernst-deutsch-theater.de/progr

    #Theater

  27. "The Potluck": Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists

    "It tells the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an antiracist demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five members of the Communist Workers' Party. In 2020, the Greensboro City Council passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department's complicity in the killings."

    youtube.com/watch?v=LmaxkzjPL80 #Theater #WhiteSupremacy #ACAB #NorthCarolina #USpol

  28. "The Potluck": Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists

    "It tells the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an antiracist demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five members of the Communist Workers' Party. In 2020, the Greensboro City Council passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department's complicity in the killings."

    youtube.com/watch?v=LmaxkzjPL80 #Theater #WhiteSupremacy #ACAB #NorthCarolina #USpol

  29. Herbstprogramm ab September

    ZMO Haupthaus, Dienstag, 1. September um 02:00 MESZ

    Start ins Herbstprogramm

    Vorraussichtlicher Start ins Herbstprogramm beim ZMO Mainz ab September.

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    Event details

    Quelle: ZMO Mainz
    Automatisch importiert von esche via cal2gancio.

    events.rheinmain.social/event/