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Disruptions in Representation: Anne Bogart's Creative Encounter with East Asian Performance Traditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Eelka Lampe
Eelka Lampe
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Eelka Lampe teaches at Regis High School, New York.
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The avant-garde theatre director Anne Bogart has made her name in the U.S. theatre community through her deconstructions of modern classics such as the musical South Pacific (1984), Cinderella/Cendrillon (1988) after Massenet's opera, Büchner's Danton's Death (1986), Gorki's Summerfolk (1989), William Inge's Picnic (1992), as well as through her idiosyncratic and original dance/theatre ‘compositions’ developed collabortively with her company, the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI). Prominent among such compositions have been 1951 (1986) on art and politics during the McCarthy era, No Plays, No Poetry (1988) on Brecht's theoretical writings, American Vaudeville (1991), and The Medium (1993) on the writings of the Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan. Bogart has been acclaimed for her astute directing of the work by contemporary playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, Charles Mee Jr. and Eduardo Machado.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Summer 1997 , pp. 105 - 110
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1997

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Notes

1. Comments by Anne Bogart at a lecture/demonstration on the Suzuki Method and Bogart's Viewpoints at Saratoga International Theater Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY, September 1994.

2. de Laureas, Teresa, Technologies of Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1987), p. xi.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. For further development of this idea see Lampe, Eelka, Disruptions in Representation: The Directing Practices of Anne Bogart (Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 1994).Google Scholar

4. Lampe, Eelka, ‘From the Battle to the Gift: The Directing of Anne Bogart’, TDR 36, No. 1 (T133), pp. 14–47 (22).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. See Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble (New York & London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 139–49.Google Scholar

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Said, Edward, Orientalism (New York: Random House, 1978), p. 20.Google Scholar

9. Bogart, Anne, comments at a lecture/demonstration on the Suzuki Method and Bogart's Viewpoints at Saratoga International Theater Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1994.Google Scholar