Culture Clash: Some Notes on Flemish Theatre and its Critical Reception in New York City

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Notes

1. For a more complete chronicle of Belgium's theatrical forays into New York prior to 1980, see David Willinger, ‘The Unwitting Avant-garde Exchange Between Belgium and America Throughout the Twentieth Century’, in Unwitting Influences in Theatre Exchanges within Europe and between Europe and the United States, ed. by Dina Hellemans and Ronald Geerts (Brussels: VUB Press, 1996), pp. 4-27.

2. Gordon Rogoff, ‘Perchance to Dream’, Village Voice, 18 February 1986, p. 99.

3. Helen Shaw, ‘Orgy of Intolerance is …  Tolerable’, Time Out New York, 23 January 2009. http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/upstaged/2009/01/orgyof-tolerance-istolerable [accessed 12 April 2010].

4. Michael Feingold, ‘Revision Quest’, Village Voice, 14 October 1997, p. 105.

5. Ibid.

6. Ben Brantley, ‘Talk, Talk, Talk: O'Neill in the Raw’, New York Times, 8 October 1997, E-5.

7. New York Magazine, 20 October 1997, p. 72.

8. Ben Brantley, ‘A Brimming Bathtub as the Focus of Desire’, New York Times, 14 September 1999, E-5.

9. James Hannaham, ‘A Formalist Affair’, Village Voice, 21 September 1999, p. 71.

10. Donald Lyons, ‘Clean Streetcar Leaves Something to Be Desired’, New York Post, 14 September 1999, p. 57.

11. David Kaufman, ‘An Undesirable ‘Streetcar’: Bizarre Staging will make Tennessee Williams Fans Blanch’, Daily News, 14 September 1999, p. 49.

12. Debra Jo Immergut, ‘Deconstructing “Streetcar”: A Bold Look at Williams's Timeless Southern Drama; Some More Sharp “Wit”’, Wall Street Journal, 15 September 1999, A30.

13. Robert Brustein, ‘Revisioning Tennessee Williams’, New Republic, 25 October 1999, p. 34.

14. ‘A Class Act with Class: An Inane Alice in Bed’, New York Magazine, 20 November 2000, p. 102.

15. Ben Brantley, ‘A Natural Cassavetes Woman, Theatricalized, Magnified and Multiplied’, (4 December 2008) http://www.theater.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/theater/reviews/04opening.html?ref=theater [accessed 12 April 2010] (para. 1 of 17).

16. Jennifer Dunning, ‘Life-and-Death Matters, Messy Yet Laughable’, (29 October 1999) http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29.movies/next-wave-festival-rev [accessed 12 April 2010] (para. 1 of 12).

17. Bruce Weber, ‘When Shakespeare Could Use a Warning Label’, New York Times, 2 November 2001, E-6.

18. Ibid.

19. Jessica Winter, ‘A Doom of One's Own’, Village Voice, 13 November 2001, p. 62.

20. Charlotte Stoudt, ‘Colonial House’, Village Voice, 22 December 2001, p. 70.

21. Jeremy McCarter, ‘Theater Reviews’, New York Sun, 16 December 2004, p. 19.

22. Christopher Isherwood, ‘After the War, His Struggle Continues’, (8 October 2008). http://www.theater.nytimes.com./2008/10/09/theater/reviews/09sunk09sunk.html [accessed 12 April 2010] (para. 4 of 9).