Archive for Christian DeMarais

From London: Pain, Medicine, Health and the Psychology behind Frederick Bruckner’s “Pains of Youth”

Pain, Medicine, Health and the Psychology behind Frederick Bruckner’s Pains of Youth “The original title Krankheit der Jugend means ‘the illness/disease of youth/of being a young person’.  Bruckner thus joins his contemporaries in extending the concept of ‘disease’ to society at large – a potent twentieth-century metaphor which could at one extreme underpin political ideology, […]

From London: Stanislavski and Brecht in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Lyric Hammersmith

Upon entering the glass sliding doors of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre lobby, I am immediately greeted by a giant white wall covered in colored writing.  This colored writing contains quotes and reviews gathered from various anonymous theatre goers over the years.  One quote in particular sticks out.   Now, whether it be fate or luck, this […]