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Magic Acts: Metaphysical Religion on the US Stage

Theatre Journal September 1, 2025 Dana Tanner-Kennedy

Abstract:Metaphysical theatre performs acts of channeling, enacts rituals as healing practices, and champions magic—the mental power of imagination to manifest desired outcomes. Daniel Alexander Jones's Black Light and Sibyl Kempson's 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens embrace the cosmic correspondences, eclectic imagery, and magical possibilities of metaphysical theatre, creating...

Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s The Rose and the Cross (review)

Theatre Journal October 1, 2009 Edmund B. Lingan

Reviewed by: Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s The Rose and the Cross Edmund B. Lingan Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s the Rose and the Cross. By Lance Gharavi. St. Paul, MN: New Grail Publishing, 2008; pp. 194. $27.95 paper. Lance Gharavi’s Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s The Rose and the Cross...

"Still Living Flesh": Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the Phenomenological Body

Theatre Journal December 1, 1993 Stanton B. Garner 18 citations

Under mescaline it happens that approaching objects appear to grow smaller. A limb or other part of the body, the hand, mouth or tongue seems enormous, and the rest of the body is felt as a mere appendage to it. The walls of the room are 150 yards apart, and beyond the walls is merely an empty vastness [. ] Sometimes motion is no longer seen, and people seem to be transported magically from one...