Between Jerusalem and Athens : Israeli theatre and the classical tradition / Nurit Yaari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaari, Nurit, author.

Series:

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Israel--History.

Theater.

Theater and society--Israel.

Theater and society.

Greek drama--Appreciation--Israel--History.

Greek drama.

Greek drama--Appreciation.

History.

Israel.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 461 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This first in-depth study of the reception of ancient Greek drama in Israeli theatre over the last 70 years offers ground-breaking analysis of a wide range of translations, adaptations, and new writing, and how performances of these works were created and staged at key points in the development of Israeli culture.

Contents:

Between Athens and Jerusalem p. 3

Weaving Together Histories and Traditions p. 7

Israeli Theatre and Its Audiences p. 15

A Survey of Scholarship p. 17

2 Habima: Outsidedness as a Catalyst of Creativity p. 29

First Encounters with the Greek Classical Repertoire p. 33

In Lieu of Summary: The Nissim Aloni Effect p. 59

3 The Cameri: In Search of Local Theatrical Identity p. 63

A Modern Hebrew Theatre in Tel Aviv p. 63

4 Experimentations: Putting the Aesthetics of Performance into Practice p. 97

Arieh Sachs: Experimenting with Ritual Theatre p. 99

Yossi Yizraely: Experimentations with Stage Imagery p. 110

Edna Shavit: Experiments with Classicism p. 129

5 Aristophanes and the Occupied Territories p. 143

Text and Socio-Political Context p. 145

Hanoch Levin: Contention, Defiance, and Protest p. 158

6 The Trojan War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict p. 175

Theatrical Responses to the Six Day War (1967) p. 175

Theatrical Responses to the Lebanon War (1982-5) p. 186

7 Lysistrata: Between Entertainment and Protest p. 211

Lysistrata on the Israeli Stages p. 211

8 Nissim Aloni: Oedipus Tyrannus in an Immigrant Society p. 245

The Myth of King Oedipus: Migrant and Autochthon p. 248

9 Hanoch Levin: From Ancient Myths to Modern Tragedy p. 277

Israel in the Aftermath of the Six Day War (1967) p. 279

The Israeli Theatre in the Aftermath of the Six Day War p. 282

Levin's Dialogue with Euripides p. 284

Levin's Dialogue with Aeschylus: The Moaners (1999) p. 300

In Search of Meaning-of Tragedy, and of Theatre p. 312

10 Classical Presences and 'Post Dramatic' Performances p. 319

Ruth Kanner: Processing Communal Grief p. 321

Troy Revisited in the Third Millennium p. 328

Ilan Ronen: Theatre as a Memory Machine p. 329

Rina Yerushalmi: Lessons of the Past p. 336

Hanan Snir: From Politics to Psychodrama p. 347

11 The Classical Tradition in University Theatre p. 361

First Encounters: Sophocles' Antigone (1969) p. 363

Students Tackling the Classical Heritage (1970-80) p. 368

From Theory to Practice: Yizraely Reads Aristotle p. 372

Graduation Projects in the Third Millennium p. 374

A Practical and Theoretical Research Laboratory (2011-14) p. 379

Research and Practice: Greek Tragedy p. 380

In Lieu of Summary: The General and the Sea (2015) p. 386

12 Israeli Theatre: A Snapshot of Today and Future Prospects p. 395.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-449) and index.

ISBN:

0198746679

9780198746676

OCLC:

1019998817