Encore Theatre Magazine
Encyclopedia
Encore Theatre Magazine is an online magazine relating to contemporary theatre
published in the United Kingdom
. A monthly internet publication begun in July 2006, it is based on a now-defunct magazine of the same title (Encore), which had a brief but influential life from 1954 to 1965: Articles published in the original Encore have been reprinted in a volume entitled The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of New Drama. According to Robert Brustein
, the original magazine Encore embodied both the virtues and the failings of the movement it examined; he criticizes it for being "bursting with energy, vigor, and excitement" but being "seriously lacking in balanced judgment
s or penetrating ideas."
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
published in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. A monthly internet publication begun in July 2006, it is based on a now-defunct magazine of the same title (Encore), which had a brief but influential life from 1954 to 1965: Articles published in the original Encore have been reprinted in a volume entitled The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of New Drama. According to Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein
Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for...
, the original magazine Encore embodied both the virtues and the failings of the movement it examined; he criticizes it for being "bursting with energy, vigor, and excitement" but being "seriously lacking in balanced judgment
Judgment
A judgment , in a legal context, is synonymous with the formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit. At the same time the court may also make a range of court orders, such as imposing a sentence upon a guilty defendant in a criminal matter, or providing a remedy for the plaintiff in a civil...
s or penetrating ideas."
External links
- The Encore Reader (review and "obituary" for Encore magazine, 1967). (Abstract in JStorJSTORJSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
("The Scholarly Journal Archive"; restricted site; subscription required for full access.) - JStor.