Warsick: Testimonial Plays Share Ukrainians’ Experience of War, by Oleksandra Wallo & Anna Halas Essay [email protected] Wed, 03/08/2023 - 14:54 Scene from Performance Survivor’s Syndrome, based on a work by Andriy Bondarenko, Harmyder Theater (Lutsk, Ukraine), directed by Ruslana Porytska (@ruslana.porytska), starring Vadym Khainskyi (@vadym_khainskyi) and Pavlo Porytskyi (@porytskyi) / Photo by Ihor Dynia Ukrainian drama has become an essential genre for registering the shock and pain experienced by millions of Ukrainians since February 2022 and offering the world an opportunity to understand, empathize, and help. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ukrainian drama has become one of the first genres to register the shock and pain experienced by millions of Ukrainians and offer the world an opportunity to understand, empathize, and help. After the initial days of utter numbness, many Ukrainian playwrights forced themselves to return to writing—this time in the subgenre of testimonial drama, as witnesses to the brutality unleashed by Russia on its peaceful neighbor. Thanks to the American writer, translator, and theater scholar John Freedman and his colleagues, many of these plays were quickly translated into English and other world languages and performed as part of Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings. This project initiated by Freedman gained such tremendous momentum that in the... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Google just released a new Chrome OS application that allows Chromebooks to seamlessly access network file shares created by Windows PCs. This integrates network file shares directly into the Files app and the browser’s Save and Open dialogs.Get the app from the Chrome Web Store You can install... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s been 19 years since the events of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and boy does it show. The first images of upcoming West End stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” written by English playwright Jack Thorne and based on a story from Thorne and “Potter” scribe J.K. Rowling,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are addicted to the video format on Facebook, and it's easy to see why: they get much higher engagement on video posts than they do on article links, according to an analysis of NewsWhip data. The problem is that publishers have less ability to monetize the video they post to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Ebooks are essentially Web sites in wrappers. So what happens if you take the wrappers off?' One answer lies in the layered reading world of Strata, a digital storytelling project from Penguin Random House and a host of collaborators led by Dan Franklin. The post ‘Experiences and Story’: PRH’s... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The course notes-sharing marketplace Luvo, formerly known as Flashnotes, has been wound down, Cengage Learning has confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The photo Vacaville police posted on their Facebook page was telling. Behind the car’s peeling, soot-covered exterior and its hollowed, scorched interior was a lesson for parent and child alike. “Public Service Announcement,” Vacaville announced. “As the drought continues and we head into summer,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week Anna Cunnane, export sales manager at Kyle Books tells us about her role and why she rates joining the SYP. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Claudia Gray's new novel, Bloodline, Princess Leia—sorry, Senator Organa—fights to keep the Senate from crumbling (again). The post Leia Gets Her Badassery Back in the New Star Wars Book appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors are basically storytellers who do their thing on the printed page (or on your favorite electronic device), instead of around the kitchen table or wherever people gather to swap stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Bezos has sold 1% of his stake in Amazon - which is just over a million shares, at a value of $671m (£465.2m) - the New York Post has reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publishers, small presses and zine-makers are primed to come together at the London Radical Book Fair, an event created to support the radical book trade and provide an organisational structure for the “reviving movement”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anna Thomas is back with a new book, 'Vegan, Vegetarian, Omnivore,' that aims to get everyone eating together at the same table, no matter what their position is on bacon or quinoa. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers tend to be solitary creatures, and yet more than 12,000 will congregate in Los Angeles this week. The occasion is the annual conference of the Assn. of Writers and Writing Programs, or AWP, which also draws other literary kin, the teachers, editors, publishers, critics and booksellers who... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Humfrey Hunter responds to Chris Hamilton-Emery's blog, 'The war on culture', arguing that culture is more available than ever before. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A video showing a Huntington Beach police officer playing a game of hopscotch with an 11-year-old homeless girl is capturing hearts online. See more of our top stories on Facebook >> The short video was posted on the Huntington Beach Police Department Facebook page and shows Officer Zach... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We have yet to make a satisfying gift of an ebook, said Nielsen's Andre Breedt at BookInsights in London. Such breakthroughs still seem far, far away The post Hype Cycles and Book Wars: Nielsen’s BookInsights Conference appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Springer Nature is to expand its nature.com content sharing initiative to its entire journals portfolio. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has launched an internal careers website which gives News Corp employees the ability to apply for jobs across HarperCollins UK, News UK, and Dow Jones. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter will automatically take mobile users who click links in its Moments section to sped-up AMP pages every time it's possible, the company said Wednesday, lending momentum to the effort to improve the mobile web experience.Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP for short, deliver content at near... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bookseller will sell limited-edition, exclusive versions of graphic novels with variant covers at its stores around the world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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