[C_Cordoba_Teatro] Documentación geométrica de los restos del Teatro Romano de Córdoba

[ES] El proyecto documenta los restos de una parte del antiguo teatro romano de Córdoba que se encuentran bajo la ampliación del museo arqueológico (MAECO) y ocupan una superficie de unos 50 x 20 metros, en el momento de la documentación era un área sobre la que se estaba construyendo el nuevo edificio. Se incluyen también otros posibles restos visibles desde el sótano de una residencia anexa.

Séneca, didascalias y voluntad de representación

De las múltiples problemáticas planteadas por la obra trágica de Séneca, una de las que más polémica causa es la cuestión de la representación de sus obras. Numerosos y admirados eruditos han debatido hasta el cansancio sobre este tema, a menudo utilizando los mismos argumentos para tesis encontradas (Pociña, Andrés, 'Una vez más sobre la representación de las tragedias de Séneca', Emerita 41, 1973, 297-308.). En este trabajo intentamos corremos de esta discusión histórico-arqueológica para enfocamos en el entramado textual mismo en busca de pasajes claramente performativos (meso y microdidascalias textuales) que revelan una 'voluntad de representación', al menos primigenia, por parte del autor, más allá de si las obras fueron representadas o no alguna vez. El teatro antiguo tiene por convención la enunciación efectiva de las acciones escénicas y,a la vez, toda acción performativa tiene su correlato en el discurso. Estos pasajes cumplen la función de didascalias internas y responden a una voluntad del autor de influir en la representación (Issacharof, Michael, 'Voix, autorité, didascalies', Poétique 96, 1993, 463-474). La presencia de meso y microdidascalias, relevantes y fundamentales para el desarrollo dramático y trágico, son la huella rastreable de que existió una 'voluntad de representación' por parte de Séneca, al menos en el momento de creación y concepción poética de sus tragedias

Séneca, didascalias y voluntad de representación

De las múltiples problemáticas planteadas por la obra trágica de Séneca, una de las que más polémica causa es la cuestión de la representación de sus obras. Numerosos y admirados eruditos han debatido hasta el cansancio sobre este tema, a menudo utilizando los mismos argumentos para tesis encontradas (Pociña, Andrés, 'Una vez más sobre la representación de las tragedias de Séneca', Emerita 41, 1973, 297-308.). En este trabajo intentamos corremos de esta discusión histórico-arqueológica para enfocamos en el entramado textual mismo en busca de pasajes claramente performativos (meso y microdidascalias textuales) que revelan una 'voluntad de representación', al menos primigenia, por parte del autor, más allá de si las obras fueron representadas o no alguna vez. El teatro antiguo tiene por convención la enunciación efectiva de las acciones escénicas y,a la vez, toda acción performativa tiene su correlato en el discurso. Estos pasajes cumplen la función de didascalias internas y responden a una voluntad del autor de influir en la representación (Issacharof, Michael, 'Voix, autorité, didascalies', Poétique 96, 1993, 463-474). La presencia de meso y microdidascalias, relevantes y fundamentales para el desarrollo dramático y trágico, son la huella rastreable de que existió una 'voluntad de representación' por parte de Séneca, al menos en el momento de creación y concepción poética de sus tragedias

Séneca, didascalias y voluntad de representación

De las múltiples problemáticas planteadas por la obra trágica de Séneca, una de las que más polémica causa es la cuestión de la representación de sus obras. Numerosos y admirados eruditos han debatido hasta el cansancio sobre este tema, a menudo utilizando los mismos argumentos para tesis encontradas (Pociña, Andrés, 'Una vez más sobre la representación de las tragedias de Séneca', Emerita 41, 1973, 297-308.). En este trabajo intentamos corremos de esta discusión histórico-arqueológica para enfocamos en el entramado textual mismo en busca de pasajes claramente performativos (meso y microdidascalias textuales) que revelan una 'voluntad de representación', al menos primigenia, por parte del autor, más allá de si las obras fueron representadas o no alguna vez. El teatro antiguo tiene por convención la enunciación efectiva de las acciones escénicas y,a la vez, toda acción performativa tiene su correlato en el discurso. Estos pasajes cumplen la función de didascalias internas y responden a una voluntad del autor de influir en la representación (Issacharof, Michael, 'Voix, autorité, didascalies', Poétique 96, 1993, 463-474). La presencia de meso y microdidascalias, relevantes y fundamentales para el desarrollo dramático y trágico, son la huella rastreable de que existió una 'voluntad de representación' por parte de Séneca, al menos en el momento de creación y concepción poética de sus tragedias

A lecture on the study of ancient coins, in connection with history : as delivered Feb. 6, 1829, in the theatre of the Royal institution of Great Britain--

Engravings of a medal of Mr. Pingo's by T. Trotter mounted opposite p. [1]

Dublin 1916: theatre of revolt

At Easter 1916, Dublin city centre was one of a series of sites throughout Ireland where a rebellion was staged against British rule. It was a strategic failure, swiftly crushed by superior British forces. The event, however, subsequently took a central role in the mythology of modern Ireland.

The first visual representations were of the conflict’s aftermath: photographic journeys through landscapes of ruin. From the distance of the camera, we see none of the pockmarks of shell bursts, nor the etchings of machine guns. Instead, traces of life in the city seem to have been swept aside by an unseen hand: the passing of millennia or a violent action of nature. Architecture alone has witnessed and recorded its presence. Amongst the fragments, the shell of the General Post Office (G.P.O.) in Sackville Street is one of the few buildings still wholly recognizable. The remnants of its classical form, portico and pediment, columns and entablature seem to transcend its prosaic modern functions and allude to something more ancient. The bewilderment of city’s inhabitants is also recorded. Dubliners have become inquisitive tourists in streets which hitherto were the locus of everyday life. They wander around aimlessly in a landscape as alien and picturesque as Pompeii. This shift in perception was captured by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats who hinted that Dublin, purged of modern commercialism had transcended its petty inadequacies to revive a slumbering heroic past.

‘I have met them at the close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses [.]’
All is changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.’

His comments were prescient. Initially unpopular, the republican leaders, executed by the British, slowly became recast as heroic martyrs. Similarly, the spaces where their heroism was forged became venerated. The G.P.O. and Sackville Street, however, already had a republican history. It was originally conceived in the eighteenth century as part of a series of magnificent urban spaces to provide an arena of spectacle and self-celebration for the colonial Anglo-Irish and their vision of a Protestant republic. O’Connell/Sackville Street became the temporal, geographical and mythical hinge upon which two different versions of Irish republicanism waxed and waned. Its recasting after independence as a space of Catholic Nationalism bore testimony to its consistency in providing a backdrop for the production of ritual and myth. In the 1920s and 30s, as the nascent country, beset with economic stagnation and political tensions, turned to spectacle as a salve for it social problems, O’Connell Street and the G.P.O. provided its most sacred sites. Within the introduction of new myths, however, individual as well as national identities were created and consolidated. The emerging identity of modern Ireland became inextricably linked with that of one ambitious politician. His uses of the G.P.O. in particular revealed a perceptive understanding of the political uses of classical architecture and urban space.

Studies on the dual in Mycenaean, in the Homeric poetry and in the Attic Theatre of the 5th century — morphological, dialectal and stylistical variations

The present dissertation focuses on the dual number in Ancient Greek in a diachronical lapse stretching from the Mycenaean age to the Attic Drama and Comedy of the 5th century BC. In the first chapter morphological issues are addressed, chiefly in a comparative perspective. The Indo European evidence on the dual is hence gathered in order to sketch patterns of grammaticalisation and paradigmatisation of specific grams, growing increasingly functional within the Greek domain. In the second chapter syntactical problems are tackled. After a survey of scholarly literature on the Greek dual, we engage in a functional and typological approach, in order to disentangle some biased assessments on the dual, namely its alleged lack of regularity and intermittent agreement. Some recent frameworks in General Linguistics provide useful grounds for casting new light on the subject. Internal Reconstruction, for instance, supports the facultativity of the dual in each and every stage of its development; Typology and the Animacy Hierarcy add precious cross linguistical insight on the behaviour of the dual toward agreement. Glaring differences also arise as to the adoption — or avoidance — of the dual by different authors. Idiolectal varieties prove in fact conditioned by stylistical and register necessity. By means of a comparison among Epics, Tragedy and Comedy it is possible to enhance differences in the evaluation of the dual, which led sometimes to forms of ‘censure’ — thus triggering the onset of competing strategies to express duality. The last two chapters delve into the tantalising variety of the Homeric evidence, first of all in an account of the notorious issue of the Embassy of Iliad IX, and last in a commentary of all significant Homeric duals — mostly represented by archaisms, formulae, and ad hoc coinages.

Aphrodite : a romance of ancient Egypt /

Issued as a souvenir program by the Century Theatre.

In the mouth of the imagination : positioning children as co-researchers and co-artists to create a professional children's theatre production

In recent decades a number of Australian artists and teacher/artists have given serious attention to the creation of performance forms and performance engagement models that respect children’s intelligence, engage with themes of relevance, avoid the cliche´s of children’s theatre whilst connecting both sincerely and playfully with current understandings of the way in which young children develop and engage with the world. Historically a majority of performing arts companies touring Australian schools or companies seeking schools to view a performance in a dedicated performance venue engage with their audiences in what can be called a ‘drop-in drop-out’ model. A six-month practice-led research project (The Tashi Project) which challenged the tenets of the ‘drop-in drop-out’ model has been recently undertaken by Sandra Gattenhof and Mark Radvan in conjunction with early childhood students from three Brisbane primary school classrooms who were positioned as co-researchers and co-artists. The children, researchers and performers worked in a complimentary relationship in both the artistic process and the development of product.

"Theatre of the dancing language" : new possibilities in contemporary Australian playwrighting

This study focuses on trends in contemporary Australian playwrighting, discussing recent investigations into the playwrighting process. The study analyses the current state of this country’s playwrighting industry, with a particular focus on programming trends since 1998. It seeks to explore the implications of this current theatrical climate, in particular the types of work most commonly being favoured for production. It argues that Australian plays are under-represented (compared to non-Australian plays) on ‘mainstream’ stages and that audiences might benefit from more challenging modes of writing than the popular three-act realist play models. The thesis argues that ‘New Lyricism’ might fill this position of offering an innovative Australian playwrighting mode. New Lyricism is characterised by a set of common aesthetics, including a non-linear narrative structure, a poetic use of language and magic realism. Several Australian playwrights who have adopted this mode of writing are identified and their works examined. The author’s play Floodlands is presented as a case study and the author’s creative process is examined in light of the published critical discussions about experimental playwriting work.

Online scheduling in the operating theatre

Online scheduling is considered in this paper for the Operating Theatre. Robust elective schedules are determined in the offline environment prior to the day of surgery for the online environment. Changes to the offline schedule during project implementation are minimized using an online scheduling model that operates in real-time. The model aims to minimise cancellations of pre-scheduled elective patients whilst also allowing for additional scheduling of emergency cases, time permitting, which may arise during the schedules implementation. Surgical durations are modelled with a lognormal distribution. The single theatre case is solved and the computationally complex multiple theatre case, which is left for future work, is discussed.