Gabriella Reuss

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Hungary is “a country where PM Orbán’s populist politics have a distinctly macho flavor” wrote Shaun Walker in the Guardian in 2018 (Walker 2018). Even if a lot of people noticed the “macho flavor”, there has not been much reference to it in the Hungarian press. It did appear recently in the opposition press and in the writings of women’s rights ad...

In recent years, theater has increasingly integrated technology, with scholars exploring concepts like 'liveness' and 'mediatization' (AUSLANDER 1999), 'presence' (POWER 2008), and 'intermediality' (DERES 2015). However, these discourses have often overlooked puppetry as a medium. This paper argues that it is time to include puppetry in these discu...

This collectively authored position paper discusses "hybrid" Shakespeares in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on productions that offer formal experimentation and transnational perspectives. While their contexts remain regional, they provide an insight into how Shakspeare has been mobilised regionally. The paper consists of four distinct parts,...

Global King Learprovides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations ofKing Learwith a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare’s great tragedy as a global phenomenon its signature themes become context-dependent and culture-specific whilst avoiding simplistic appeals to the play’s universality. Internat...

This collectively authored position paper discusses “hybrid” Shakespeares in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on productions that offer formal experimentation and transnational perspectives. While their contexts remain regional, they provide an insight into how Shakspeare has been mobilised regionally. The paper consists of four distinct parts,...

Entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare (ed. A. a. Joubin). The concept of a national theater that “is the pledge of avoiding the ‘nation’s death’” (Imre 10) was born within the framework of the German-speaking Austrian Habsburg Empire. Such a national stage cultivates Hungarian language, awakens and reinforces Hungarian nationa...

This article was published in Représentations dans le monde Anglophone 1 (2020): 105–127, https://representations.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/IMG/pdf/7-reuss-2.pdf The Tempest is “the most puppeted” Shakespearean play worldwide, thus, as a choice for the Hungarian adult puppet stage it should not be really surprising. Although somewhat reluctantly, we...

Entry in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, A. A. Joubin (ed.) László Bagossy (1967) is a Hungarian poet, dramatist, critic, dramaturg, theater director, and professor of theater arts. He is best known for his nuanced renderings of plays by contemporary dramatists, such as Dürrenmatt (King John earned Critics’ Award for Best Direction...

Entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare (ed. A. A. Joubin, 2022). Sándor Hevesi (1873–1939) was an erudite translator, educator, critic, dramatist, dramaturg, theater historian, Shakespeare scholar, an influential opera and theater director, theoretician, and between 1922 and 1933 the manager of the Hungarian National Theater, Bu...

Reference entry on Rémusz Szikszai in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare. Rémusz Szikszai (1969, Carei, Romania) is a Hungarian-Romanian film, theater, television, and dubbing actor, theater director, dramaturg, and talk show host. As an actor blessed with a rough, hoarse voice, he often plays rough-mannered, violent, sexist characters...

Reference entry for Róbert Alföldi in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare. Alföldi (1967, Kalocsa, Hungary) is a Hungarian actor, theater, film, and opera director, television host, dramaturg, set designer, collector, and painter. He is well known for his controversial and provocative, “in-yer-face” theatrical adaptations of European cl...

This study introduces Sándor Hevesi (1873–1939), a Hungarian translator, theatre critic, Shakespeare scholar and opera and theatre director, who played a crucial role in the Budapest theatre scene in the 1920s. His work has received less attention than it deserves, and particularly the so-called Shakespearecycles, i.e., Hevesi's serialised Shakespe...

Reference entry on Csaba Kiss in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare. Kiss (1960, Târgu-Mures, Romania) is a Hungarian theater director, dramatist, dramaturg, theater manager, lecturer in dramaturgy, and founding member of the Dramatist Round Table (2004). He is best known for his psychologically rich staging of Shakespeare’s great trag...

Amióta egy angol sztárszínész, William Charles Macready (1793-1873) egyik kincset érő súgópéldányába véletlenül belebotlottam, vissza-visszatértem hozzá, és elkezdtem a színész többi súgópéldányát és Shakespeare-helyreállítását kutatni, azóta biztos vagyok benne, hogy ez a téma velejéig shakespeare-es, és legalább ugyanannyira dramaturgiai is. És b...

Amióta egy angol sztárszínész, William Charles Macready (1793-1873) egyik kincset érő súgópéldányába véletlenül belebotlottam, vissza-visszatértem hozzá, és elkezdtem a színész többi súgópéldányát és Shakespeare-helyreállítását kutatni, azóta biztos vagyok benne, hogy ez a téma velejéig Shakespeare-es, és legalább ugyanannyira dramaturgiai is. És b...

Shakespeare en devenir > N°13 - 2018 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=1500

To contribute to the colourful palette of Europe’s noteworthy contemporary Shakespeares, this article analyses the unique approach to Shakespeare of the Hungarian director László Bagossy through case studies of two productions, The Tempest (2012) and Hamlet (2014). Bagossy’s Shakespearean productions peeled method acting off from Shakespeare for go...

Shakespeare en devenir > N°9 - 2015 https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=839