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This article contains the claim "The play (i.e. The Deputy) toured the Eastern Bloc and then proceeded to tour the free world."
This claim of travel writer Melik Kaylan (Rehabilitating Pope Pius XII, Forbes, Oct. 28, 2008) is contrary to the historical truth. The historical pattern of events was exactly contrary: "The play toured the western world and then proceeded to tour the Eastern bloc." [1]
User History2007 has backed this false claim. This falsification of theatre history should be eliminated if Wikipedia still claims to be a serious online encyclopedia. -- Diggindeeper ( talk) 20:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Year | Calendar quarter | Countries | Theaters | |
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1963 | 1 | West Germany | Freie Volksbühne (West-Berlin) (debut performance on February 22, 1963, from February 1964 touring other cities) | |
3 | Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain | Dramaten Stockholm, Stadttheater Basel, Aldwych Theatre London | ||
4 | Denmark, Finland, France, Switzerland | Odense Teater, Swedish Theatre Helsinki, Théâtre de l'Athénée Paris, Bern Stadttheater | ||
1964 | 1 | Austria, West Germany, Greece, Denmark, United States | Volkstheater Wien, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Akademia Theater Athens, Aarhus Theatre, Bühnen der Stadt Essen, Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Stadttheater Bielefeld, Städtische Bühnen Bremerhaven, Brooks Atkinson Theatre New York, Kammerspiele Düsseldorf (tour), Städtische Bühnen Flensburg, Stadttheater Gießen | |
2 | Netherlands, Israel | Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel, Habima Theatre Tel Aviv | ||
3 | Finland | Finnish National Theatre Helsinki | ||
1965 | 1 | Canada, Great Britain, Italy | Crest Theatre Toronto, Library Theatre Manchester, Cenacolo di San Appoloni, Firenze | |
3 | Australia, United States, | Old Tote Theatre Company Sydney, Theatre Group in Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles | ||
4 | Great Britain, Sweden, United States, South Africa, Argentina | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Karlstad Teater, Theater in Boston, Alexander Theatre Johannesburg, Theatre in Buenos Aires | ||
1966 | 1-4 | Norway, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Hungary, Japan | Det Norske Teatret Oslo, National Theatre in Belgrade, Théâtre Royal des Galeries Brussels, Slovak National Theatre Bratislava, Deutsches Theater East Berlin, Theater of the Army Prague, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Volkstheater Rostock, Vereinigte Theater Greifswald, Städtisches Theater Leipzig, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Städtische Bühnen Magdeburg, Landestheater Halle, Bühnen der Stadt Gera, National Theatre Warsaw, Thalia Theatre Budapest, Tokyo Centre Hall, Contra-Kreis-Theater Bonn |
One finds it somewhat disturbing that this article spends eight paragraphs spelling out the claims (true or false) of Ion Mihai Pacepa; and then, in the concluding sentence, notes almost in passing that "Pacepa's story has not been corroborated."
I might also note that this article engages in some smears-by-association and what seems to be factual inaccuracies.
Rolf Hochhuth, author of the play The Deputy, is sneeringly referred to here as the "claimed" playwright (is there any evidence that he did not write it?); meanwhile, the producer of the play, Erwin Piscator, is described as having "sought asylum in the USSR during the war."
However, Wikipedia's own articles on Piscator state that this left-wing director-producer married a French dancer in Paris in 1937; that "Piscator and [his wife Maria] Ley subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1939"; and that beginning in 1940 Piscator ran a theatre workshop in New York. It is difficult to see how Herr Piscator could have "sought asylum in the USSR" while he was coaching drama students on 12th Street in Manhattan.
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This article contains the claim "The play (i.e. The Deputy) toured the Eastern Bloc and then proceeded to tour the free world."
This claim of travel writer Melik Kaylan (Rehabilitating Pope Pius XII, Forbes, Oct. 28, 2008) is contrary to the historical truth. The historical pattern of events was exactly contrary: "The play toured the western world and then proceeded to tour the Eastern bloc." [1]
User History2007 has backed this false claim. This falsification of theatre history should be eliminated if Wikipedia still claims to be a serious online encyclopedia. -- Diggindeeper ( talk) 20:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Year | Calendar quarter | Countries | Theaters | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1963 | 1 | West Germany | Freie Volksbühne (West-Berlin) (debut performance on February 22, 1963, from February 1964 touring other cities) | |
3 | Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain | Dramaten Stockholm, Stadttheater Basel, Aldwych Theatre London | ||
4 | Denmark, Finland, France, Switzerland | Odense Teater, Swedish Theatre Helsinki, Théâtre de l'Athénée Paris, Bern Stadttheater | ||
1964 | 1 | Austria, West Germany, Greece, Denmark, United States | Volkstheater Wien, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Akademia Theater Athens, Aarhus Theatre, Bühnen der Stadt Essen, Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Stadttheater Bielefeld, Städtische Bühnen Bremerhaven, Brooks Atkinson Theatre New York, Kammerspiele Düsseldorf (tour), Städtische Bühnen Flensburg, Stadttheater Gießen | |
2 | Netherlands, Israel | Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel, Habima Theatre Tel Aviv | ||
3 | Finland | Finnish National Theatre Helsinki | ||
1965 | 1 | Canada, Great Britain, Italy | Crest Theatre Toronto, Library Theatre Manchester, Cenacolo di San Appoloni, Firenze | |
3 | Australia, United States, | Old Tote Theatre Company Sydney, Theatre Group in Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles | ||
4 | Great Britain, Sweden, United States, South Africa, Argentina | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Karlstad Teater, Theater in Boston, Alexander Theatre Johannesburg, Theatre in Buenos Aires | ||
1966 | 1-4 | Norway, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Hungary, Japan | Det Norske Teatret Oslo, National Theatre in Belgrade, Théâtre Royal des Galeries Brussels, Slovak National Theatre Bratislava, Deutsches Theater East Berlin, Theater of the Army Prague, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Volkstheater Rostock, Vereinigte Theater Greifswald, Städtisches Theater Leipzig, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Städtische Bühnen Magdeburg, Landestheater Halle, Bühnen der Stadt Gera, National Theatre Warsaw, Thalia Theatre Budapest, Tokyo Centre Hall, Contra-Kreis-Theater Bonn |
One finds it somewhat disturbing that this article spends eight paragraphs spelling out the claims (true or false) of Ion Mihai Pacepa; and then, in the concluding sentence, notes almost in passing that "Pacepa's story has not been corroborated."
I might also note that this article engages in some smears-by-association and what seems to be factual inaccuracies.
Rolf Hochhuth, author of the play The Deputy, is sneeringly referred to here as the "claimed" playwright (is there any evidence that he did not write it?); meanwhile, the producer of the play, Erwin Piscator, is described as having "sought asylum in the USSR during the war."
However, Wikipedia's own articles on Piscator state that this left-wing director-producer married a French dancer in Paris in 1937; that "Piscator and [his wife Maria] Ley subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1939"; and that beginning in 1940 Piscator ran a theatre workshop in New York. It is difficult to see how Herr Piscator could have "sought asylum in the USSR" while he was coaching drama students on 12th Street in Manhattan.