Theatre & Holy Script

This collection of essays about drama and religion examines theatrical elements in sacred performance and sacred elements in dramatic performance, primarily in Judeo-Christian traditions. Holy Space and Representational Place in the Tenth; Century; Action is Literal : Ritual Typology and Ritual Arts ; Are the Rock Carvings of the North the First Sources; of Theatre in Europe?; Strategies of the Heterogeneous in Ritual and Performance: Mallarme’s Livre or the Rite of the Book; The Sacramental Aesthetics on Stage: The Cathedral Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers; The Son of the Dove and the Jewish Waiter; Born Losers Comparing Notes - Bible Quotation and Drama Construction in George Tabori’s Plays; The Liturgical Theatre of the Holocaust on the Israeli Stage - Holy Scripture, Myth, Ritual; Religious Theatre in a Totalitarian Atheistic State: The Polish Experience; Dziady: A Mystery Play in the Modern Polish Theatre; A Divinity which Shapes Our Ends: Greek Comedy in a Secular Age; Thespis and Moses: The Jews and the Ancient Greek Theatre; Secular Rites in Jules Dassin’s Film A Dream of Passion; Secular Definitions of ‘Ritual’: The Rocky Horror Phenomenon; Sermons in Stones; Masks and Disguises as an Expression of Anarchy in the Jewish Festival Theatre; Political Assassination, Sacrifice and Theatrical Re-enactment in Julius Caesar; Our teachers break our hearts : Bruria, Theatre Company of Jerusalem; Myth and the Drama of the Soul; Index.