jabra ibrahim jabra, one of the most prolific arab authors, has enriched the arabic library and the mind of his audience by first functioning as a link in a rich chain of past cultural, artistic, and literary heritage; and second by reflecting the modern arab intellectual's classical mindset. he has a multifaceted career as a short story writer, novelist, critic, poet, playwright, and pain...

ENGL 302 Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Instr. R. Elliott. 10:00 MWF. After an opening glance at the Anglo-Irish comic tradition, this course will focus on plays written during and since the Irish Renaissance that flowered about 1900. We will discuss works by the major Abbey Theatre playwrights – W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Sean O’Casey – and link their writing...

This paper examines some of the artistic elements and practical problems encountered Texas A&M’s 2009 production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which teleoperated unmanned vehicles were involved. From the beginning, a major concern was whether robots would distract from the play, undermine the characters, and harm the world which the playwright had envisioned. The play it...

Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. To envision the future of technology, we would do well to first look to the past. The past provides a vocabulary of possibilities which can be rearranged and supplemented with fresh ideas and technology to craft not just new opportunities, but a new language...

Using Creation Theatre’s TheTime Machine (2020) as a reference point, this review reflects on how the theatre-hybrid form of “Zoom performance” creates new audience development and participation opportunities compared to live theatre performance. This piece is partnered with an interview recording Jonathan Holloway, Time Machine's Playwright.