Production Archives

01/11/2022

🚨NEW from "Production Archives"🚨
Read “A Wilder Joyce: Influence, Borrowing, Appropriation, Theft” by S.E. Gontarski
Explores the entangled critical histories of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" and James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"
Open-access from Open Library of Humanities

This article re-examines the unintended consequences of American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder’s lifelong passion for the work of James Joyce, as Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, while in the midst of ‘unriddling...

12/09/2022

📢NEW from the Open Library of Humanities open-access special collection "Production Archives"!📢
Read Meike Wilfing-Albrecht's German language article “Tradition und Moderne: Egon Wellesz’ Imagination des barocken Gesamtkunstwerks”, on Wellesz' reformist ideas for the opera in "Alcestis" (1924) and "The Bacchantes" (1931).
The article discusses Wellesz's methodology, his individual understanding of the baroque Gesamtkunstwerk and its role in his operatic reform.

Als Musikwissenschaftler und Komponist beschäftigte sich Egon Wellesz zeitlebens mit dem Musiktheater und entwickelte auf Basis seiner Forschungen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Lösungsstrategien für die zeitgenössische Oper, die nach der Ära Wagner seiner Ansicht nach in ein kritisches Stadium...

22/08/2022

📢NEW from the Open Library of Humanities open-access collection "Production Archives"!📢
Read "The Gift of Happy Memories: A World War II Christmas Puppet Play in Ravensbrück” by Cynthia Lisa Dretel
The article explores inmate puppet plays as social rituals in women's concentration camps
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/6379/

Szopki, Polish musical nativity puppet plays, were a widespread but relatively unstudied artistic response to N**i occupation among Polish Catholics in N**i concentration camps. As the nativity story is only a small portion of a szopka production, the Polish inmates had opportunities to subvert cens...

29/03/2022

Read "The Puppet and the Puppet-Master in Ancient Greece: Fragments of an Art Form" by Mali Annika Skotheim (Ashoka University)

Drawing on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological material, this article addresses the interrelation of the performance context, physical form, and aesthetic of ancient Greek puppetry.

From the Open Library of Humanities open-access collection Production Archives! *SUBMISSIONS OPEN**
https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.6568

Drawing on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological material, this article addresses the interrelation of the performance context, physical form, and aesthetic of ancient Greek puppetry. Puppeteers performed in a variety of contexts, which included processions and public theaters. During religious...

10/01/2022

Read "In the Beginning There Were Dragon(cillo)s: Using Shadow Puppetry to Engage Young Audiences" by Esther Fernández, Jason Yancey, Jonathan Wade, Jared White
Adapting Francisco de Quevedo's entremeses for bilingual audiences
Part of the open-access "Production Archives" collection from the
Open Library of Humanities
**Submissions Open**
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4791/

Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe was established in 2018 by Esther Fernández, Jonathan Wade, Jared White, and Jason Yancey. A staging of The Fabulous Johnny Frog at the 2018 Association for Hispanic and  Classical  Theater’s  (AHCT)  yearly  symposium  marked  the...

16/06/2021

We are proud to announce Production Archives, a cutting-edge special collection published by the Open Library of Humanities.

Through a transdisciplinary approach to cultural productions and their archives, this special collection will refocus the critical lens to consider not only the audience-facing ‘auteurs’ and ‘on-stage’ end-products of cultural practice, but also the material processes, collaborative labours and economic contexts of cultural production, archival, curation, and exhibition.

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