“Dardanella”, salah satu rombongan stambul pada dasawarsa pertama setelah Perang Dunia Pertama, tumbuh menjadi rombongan teater paling inovatif. Maka tak berlebihan kalau rombongan ini disebut sebagai perintis teater modern di Indonesia. Bukan itu saja. Sebagai rombongan tari dan nyanyi, ia meraih sukses besar di Malaya, Singapura, Tiongkok, Srilanka, Myanmar, India, Timur Tengah, Eropa, Af…
“La Scala is the world’s number one theatre, because it is the one that gives the maximum musical enjoyment”, wrote Stendhal on 10 November 1816. La Scala had opened in 1778 with the opera Europa riconosciuta by Antonio Salieri, but it had already won itself a prestige that it would subsequently maintain throughout its whole existence. Its birth had, in many ways, been by chance: due to t…
Aeschylus sang penyair lahir di Eleusis sekitar tahun 525 SM. Ayahnya, Euphorion, berasal dari 'Eupatridae', atau bangsawan tua Athena. Drama Aeschylus pertama dipamerkan pada tahun 499. Dia sendiri tampaknya menjadi pendiri sebenarnya dari tragedi, karena, menurut Aristoteles, dia pertama kali memperkenalkan aktor kedua, mengurangi pentingnya paduan suara, dan menugaskan bagian utama untuk dia…
This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea’s leading theatre artists. These works reflect the nature of Lee Yun-Taek’s genius, his contributions to contemporary Korean theatre, and the socio-political climate in South Korea during the release of this early works. They are indeed “brief chronicles of their time”.