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CURRICULUM VITAE
December, 2015
ISAAC BENABU
Born Gibraltar, 15/12/46; British & Israeli Citizenship
Married, with three children
Native languages: English & Spanish; perfect fluency in French; fluency in Italian & Hebrew
Address: (univ.) Dept. of Theatre Studies
The Hebrew University,
Mt. Scopus,
Jerusalem
(home) Rehov Bar Kokhba, 48/4
Tsameret Habira,
Jerusalem, 97875
Tel:
972-2-588 3940
Fax: 972-2-588 3944
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel:
972-2-581 4880
ACADEMIC DEGREES
1968
B.A. First Class Honours, Westfield College, University of London
1978
M.Litt., King's College, Cambridge
Area of specialization: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Lit.
1982
Ph.D. summa cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Area of specialization: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama
ACADEMIC HONOURS
1967
Westfield College Association Prize for distinguished work in Spanish
1968
J.E.Joseph Travel Scholarship, London
1976-78
Major State Scholarship, England
1977
Le Bas Scholarship, Univ. of Cambridge
1981-82
Gottesfeld Fellowship, The Hebrew Univ.
1983
Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
1985-88
Alon Fellow, Council for Higher Education, State of Israel
1985-89
Fellowship, The Vidal Madjar Foundation, Paris
1986
Hebrew Univ. Faculty of Humanities Prize for Innovative Research
(jointly with J. Yahalom)
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APPOINTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
1975-79
Lecturer in Spanish Lang. & Lit., Cambridge College of Arts &
Technology, Cambridge
1976-79
Supervisor in Spanish Lang. & Lit. and French Lang.,University of
Cambridge (King's,Trinity, Newnham, St. John and Churchill Colleges)
1979-80
Institute,
Consulting Editor, Judeo-Spanish Dictionary Project, The Ben Zvi
Jerusalem
1979-80
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ.
1981-83
Instructor, Dept. of Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ.
1983-90
Senior Lecturer, Depts. of Theatre Studies, Spanish & Latin American
Studies and Romance Philology, Hebrew Univ.
1987-88
Acting Chair, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew Univ.
1988-89
Visiting Lecturer, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Univ.
of Oxford
1991- 2000
Univ.
Associate Professor (with tenure), Depts. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew
1993-96
Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Hebrew Univ.
1996-97
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York
1996-97
Visiting Professor, University of Yale, Connecticut
2000
Visiting Professor, Universitat Bayreuth (Shakespeare Lectures)
2001/2
Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2001 –
Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
2002/07
Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1982-
Director of M.A. theses, Hebrew Univ.
1986-
Director of Ph.D. theses, Hebrew Univ., Tel Aviv Univ., Bar Ilan Univ.,
Univ. of Leyden (Netherlands), Univ. of London.
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MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, ORGANIZATION, ETC.
1982-
Member, Modern Language Association of America
1982-87
Member of CNRS (LACITO) / Hebrew Uni. Joint Project on Jewish
Ethnolinguistics and Ethnomusicology
1983
Co-ordinator, B.A. programme in Judeo-Spanish Studies, Hebrew Univ.
1983
Historical Consultant on Gibraltar, Exhibition on `The Jewish
Communities surrounding the Straits of Gibraltar', Goldmann Museum
of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv
1984
Convenor, International colloquium `Litterae Judaeorum in Terra
Hispanica'
1984-
Member, Association of British Hispanists
1986
Member, Organizing Committee, The Second International Theatre
Conference, Hebrew Univ.
1987
Member, Hebrew Univ. Faculty Co-ordinating Committee on the
Commemoration of 1492
1987-
Member, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (USA)
1987-
Member, Editorial Board, Spanish Golden-Age Comedia Critical
Editions series, Edition Reichenberger, Kassel, Germany
1989-91
Member, International Advisory Council, Association for Hispanic
Classical Theatre (USA)
1990
Discussant, Fifteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas
1990-92
Committee Member, Israel National Committee for the
Commemoration of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain and the
Discovery of America
1991-
Member, Board of Directors, Association for Hispanic Classical
Theater (USA)
1991
Judge, Sixteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas
1992-
Director, University Theatre Company, Hebrew Univ.
1993-96
Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
1993-96
Faculty representative on the Senate, Hebrew Univ.
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1993-
Artistic Director & Director General, Jerusalem International Festival
of University Theatre
1993
Adjudicator, Eighteenth Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Texas
1994-
Member, Board of Directors, Israel Gur Theatre Archives, Israel
1994-
Member, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
1994-
Committee Member, Israel Association for Theatre Research
1994-
Consultant, Israel Festival
1994Classical
Chairman, Towards 2000 Committee, Association for Hispanic
Theater (USA)
1995-
Chairman, Academic Committee, Israel Gur Theatre Archives, Israel
1996
Director, Simposio internacional sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro
(Almagro, Spain)
1997-
Member, International Advisory Board, Siglo de Oro Theatre
Festival, Chamizal National Memorial, Texas
1998-
Member, Editorial Board, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic
Research Seminar, University of London
1998-
Council Member, National Authority for Ladino (Israel)
1999
Adjudicator, Twenty-fourth Siglo de Oro Theatre Festival, Texas
1999-
Faculty representative on the Senate, Hebrew Univ.
2000-
Board Member, The Jerusalem Theatre Company (Israel)
2000
Convenor, Simposio internacional sobre el teatro clásico –
Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre in collaboration with El
Festival Internacional de Almagro (Almagro, Spain)
2000
Joint Convenor, CONCEPTS International Symposium on ‘Theatre
as Boundary Breaker ‘ (Jerusalem).
2001/2
Consultant, Renaissance Theatre Project, Sydney Theatre Company,
Sydney
2002 -
Member, Selection & Promotions Committee, Faculty of
Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2002 - 06
Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
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2006
Visiting Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006/7
Halbert Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada
2007
Lecture Tour in Australia, Friends of the Hebrew University
2007-10
Member, Degree-Validation Committee for Theatre Studies, The Ministry of
Education and Culture, Israel
2007 -
Member, University Promotions Committee
2009
Visiting Professor, University of Capetown, South Africa
2010 -
Member, Modern Languages Association
2010 -
Member, Sefarad (Israel)
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1.
September, 2015
I PH.D. DISSERTATION
‘Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism. Calderón de
la Barca: the Tragedies’ (The Hebrew Univ., 1982))
II BOOKS
2.
On the Boards and in the Press (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger,
1991) (ix + 242pp.)
Reviews: Hispania (Washington) 76.3 (1993),p.471;
Insula (Madrid) no.556 (April 1993), p.5;
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) LXXI (1994),
pp.268-69
3.
Reading for the Stage: Calderón and Contemporaries
(Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis Books -- imprint of Boydell &
Brewer, 2003)
4.
III BOOKS EDITED
Judeo-Romance Languages (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University
& Misgav Yerushalayim, 1985) [xi + 232pp.]
Joint Editor with Joseph Sermoneta
Reviews: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool);
Romanistisches Jahrbuch (Germany); Revue des Langues
Romanes (France); Romance Philology (California)
5.
6.
Circa 1492: Proceedings of a Jerusalem Colloquium
(Jerusalem: The Hebrew University & Misgav Yerushalayim,
1992) [xii + 235pp.]
Reviews: Romance Philology (Univ of California Press); Bulletin
of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool UP, UK), La corónica (Johns
Hopkins UP., USA), 25.1 (1996), pp.172-75.
IV SUB-EDITING
Massorot: Studies in Language Tradition and Jewish
Languages II, ed. M. Bar Asher & S. Morag (Jerusalem:
The Hebrew University, 1986) [French Language Editor]
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( IN PRINT)
7.
Papers of the Seventh & Eighth British Judeo-Spanish
Conference: Glasgow 1991 & Leeds 1993, ed. Paul J. Donnelly
with Isaac Benabu (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press)
V ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
1.
‘Further Thoughts on King Pedro's Predicament at the
End of Calderón's El médico de su honra’,
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool University Press), 59:1
(1982), 26-32
2.
‘Humorous Tales from Morocco in Western Judeo-Spanish:
A Linguistic Study’ [in Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in
Jewish Folklore (Magnes Press), 5-6 (1984), 123-50
3.
‘Towards a History of the Diffusion of the Secular
Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain’ [in Hebrew], Tarbiz
(Jerusalem) 54:2 (1985), 245-62
[with J.Yahalom]
4.
‘The Importance of Genizah Manuscripts for the Establishment of
the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew Characters’, Romance
Philology (University of California Press), XL:2 (1986), 139-58
[with J. Yahalom]
5.
‘Judeo-Spanish’ in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J.R.Strayer,
vol.7 (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons,1986), p.179 (double
columns)
6.
‘Sephardim' in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J.R.Strayer, vol.
11 (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1988), 161-62 (double
columns)
7.
‘La devoción de la cruz y su ‘felice’ fin’, Hacia Calderón 5,
ed. Hans Flasche (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner,1988), 210-20
8.
‘Shylock the Jew: Flashes from a Performance of Shakespeare's The
Merchant of Venice’ [in Hebrew], BamahֹDrama Quarterly
(Jerusalem), 117-118 (1989), 89-97
9.
‘Judeo-Spanish: Language and Literature' in The Blackwell
Companion to Jewish Culture from the Eighteenth Century to the
Present, ed. G. Abramson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 390-93
(double columns)
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10.
‘El judeo-espanol: una lengua en peregrinación por el Mediterraneo’,
Reflejos (Jerusalem), 1:1 (1992), 11-15
11.
‘Problems Posed by Literary Translations in the Theatre: García Lorca’s
plays in Hebrew’ [in Hebrew], Bamah Drama Quarterly (Jerusalem),
125 (1992), 26-38
[with Rina Litvin]
12.
‘Playing Calderón: Tracing a Play's Receptive Frame’, Bulletin of the
Comediantes (University of California Press), 45:1 (1993), 29-40
13.
‘How Did the Original Don Juan - The Trickster of Seville - Seduce his
Audience?’ [in Hebrew] Bamahֹ Drama Quarterly (Jerusalem), 136
(1994), 41-47
14.
‘Who is the Protagonist? Gutierre on the Stand’, Indiana Journal of
Hispanic Literatures (Indiana University Press), 2:2 (1994), 13-25
(included in no.3 in an expanded form)
15.
‘Reading the Opening of a Play: Tirso's El burlador de Sevilla ‘ in Bulletin
of the Comediantes [Special number dedicated to Tirso de Molina]
(University of California Press, 47:2 (1995), 191-200
16.
‘Calderón's La devoción and the question of genre’, Indiana Journal of
Hispanic Literatures (Indiana Univ. Press), 10 & 11 (1997), 9-15
17.
‘La inconclusividad de un fin: Pedro Crespo y laproblematización del
género en una lectura teatral de El alcalde de Zalamea’ in Texto e imagen
en Calderón: Hacia Calderón 8, ed. Manfred Tietz (Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner,1998), 37-45
18.
‘Notes on Reading the Seventeenth-Century Playtext: the Case of the
Spanish Golden-Age Comedia’, [in Hebrew], Bama Drama Quarterly
(Jerusalem), 155-6 (1999), 91-97
19.
‘Entre el teatro y la academia: decodificar la escritura teatral’,
Comedia Performance (Washington, DC), 6:1 (Spring, 2009), 38-52
20.
‘Problemática de la lectura teatral del personaje: el caso de Bernarda Alba’,
Theatralia. Revista de Poética del Teatro (Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, ),
vol. 11 (2009), 127-41
21. ,(Directing Spanish Golden-Age Theatre =) '‫'לביים את הקומדיה הספרדית של תור הזהב‬
52-62 '‫ עמ‬,]2009[ ‫ תשס’ט‬,‫ ירושלים‬, 2‫במות ומסך‬
22. ( = Reading Bernarda Alba
’‫ המקרה של בת ברנרדה אלבה‬:‫קריאה תאטרונית של דמויות‬
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Theatrically)
54-68'‫ עמ‬,]2009[ ‫ תש’ע‬,4 ,‫במות ומסך‬
23.
‘Western Judeo-Spanish (hakitía): Tracing Speech through Narrative’ in
European Judaism, 44: 1, Spring 2011: 36– 50
24.
‘Writing for the Stage: Two Shakespearean Examples’ (in Hebrew) Theatre
Arts, Scene and Screen, 9 (2012), 40-48
25.
‘La construcción del personaje teatral: el Duque de Ferrara en El castigo sin
venganza’, Olmedo, 2013
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1.
‘On the Transmission of the Judeo-Spanish Translation of the Bible: the
Eastern and Western Traditions Compared’ in Judeo-Romance Languages,
ed. I.Benabu & J. Sermoneta (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University & Misgav
Yerushalayim, 1985), 1-26
2.
‘A la recherche de la Bible en Ladino: une traduction
manusrcite du seizième siècle’ in Massorot: Studies in
Language Tradition and Jewish Languages II, ed. M. Bar
Asher & S. Morag (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University,
(1986),15-24
3.
‘A propos de l'ancienne Bible judéo-espagnole: observations sur
les nouveaux travaux en cours à Jérusalem’ in Critiques et
Editions des Textes: Actes du XVIIe Congrès International de
Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, vol.9 (Aix en Provence:
Université de Provence, 1986), 269-78
4.
Preface to Koen-Sarano, Matilda Kuentos del Folklor de la
Famiya Djudeo-Espanyola (Jerusalem: Kana, 1986), xiv-xv
5.
‘Bible Translation in Judeo Spanish in Recent Times: A Cultural
Linguistic Presentation’ in Studies in Jewish Languages: Bible
Translations and Spoken Dialects, ed. Moshe Bar-Asher
(Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1988), 47-51
6.
‘Les kharjas hispano-romanes en caracteres hébraiques: Nouveaux
témoins, nouvelles lectures’ in Actes du XVIIIe Congrès International
de Linguistique et de Phililogie. Romanes, Université de Trève (Trier),
(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1991)
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7.
‘ ‘‘Rivers of oil inundated the Valley of Stones”: Towards a
Methodology for Reading the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew
Characters’ in Studies in the Muwassah and the Kharja, ed. Alan
Jones & Richard Hitchcock (Oxford: Ithaca Press for the Board of the
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1991), 16-28
8.
‘Orthography in the Hispano-Romance kharjas in Hebrew Characters’
in Poesía estrófica, ed. F. Corriente & A. Saenz Badillos (Madrid:
Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense, 1991), 32-42
9.
‘Interpreting the Comedia in the Absence of a Performance Tradition:
Gutierre in Calderón's El médico de su honra’, in Prologue to
Performance, ed. L.& P.Fothergill-Payne (London & Toronto:
Associated University Presses, 1992), 23-35
Reviewed in Modern Language Review 89.3 (1994), p.785
10.
‘‘Sufrir y callar’: motivo de resolución a una acción trágica en el teatro
español del siglo 17’ in Stage and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century
Spain, ed. B. Mujica (Washington: University Presses of America, 1993),
26-39
11.
Introduction and conclusion to group article entitled: ‘Towards a
Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: ‘Gerineldo’ and the romance
Model’ in Jewish OralֹTraditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed.
Israel Adler et al. (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1994) 68-72 & 108-10
[with F. Alvarez Pereyre]
12.
‘Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the
romance model. The Literary Parameter’ in Jewish Oral Traditions: Anֹ
Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Israel Adler et al. (Jerusalem: Magnes,
1994), 68-163
[with T. Alexander, Y. Ghelman, O. (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald & S.
Weich-Shahak]
Author’s contribution = Section A - The Text, 73-81
13.
In the End is the Beginning: Reading a Seventeenth-Century Playtext for
the Stage (VSS 943), 5th programme in series entitled Understanding the
Comedia (Lafayette: Purdue University, 1994)
30 min.video programme written and presented by I. Benabu, directed by
Prof. Charles Ganelan.
14.
‘Poetry in Two Languages: the Kharja and its Muwassah’ in Iberia &
Beyond: Hispanic Jews between Cultures, ed. B. Cooperman (Newark &
London: Associated University Presses, 1998), 123-42
15.
‘On Directing the Comedia’ in The Siglo de Oro Drama Festival: 25th
Anniversary Volume (El Paso, Texas: Chamizal National Memorial, 2000),
pp.40-41 (double columns)
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16.
‘Leer lo ‘ilegible’: Apuntes para una lectura teatral de la Comedia ‘ in El
texto puesto en escena, ed. Barbara Mujica & Anita Stoll (London: Tamesis,
2000),141-50
17.
‘Directing the comedia: Notes on a Process' in Comedia in English, eds.
Don Larson & Susan Paun de García (London: Tamesis Books, 2008),
153-63
18.
‘Life after Death? Surviving Traces of Haketía’, El Presente: Estudios sobre
la cultura sefaradí eds. Tamar Alexander and Yaacov Bentolila, vol.2 (n.p.:
Ben Gurion Univ., 2008), 243-52
19.
‘Life After Death: Surviving Traces of Haketía among the Jews of
Gibraltar’ in Selected Papers from the Fifteenth British Conference of
Judeo-Spanish Studies ed. Chris Pountain, Hilary Pomeroy, Elena Romero
(London: Dept. of Iberian & Latin American Studies, Queen Mary College,
Univ. of London), pp.51-61
20.
‘El poeta canta en dos lenguas : la jarcha y su muwassah ’, Jerusalén y
Toledo’, ed. Manuel Casado Velarde, Ruth Fine, Carlos Mata Insuráin
(Madrid : Iberoamericana. Vervuert, 2012
21.
‘Constructing Stage Character: The Duke of Ferrara’ in Fischer Festschrift,
ed. Barbara Mujica (Washington: University Presses of America, 2013), pp.?
22.
‘Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards’, Prismatic
Reflections: Essays in Honour of Matthew D. Stroud , ed. Gwyn E.
Campbell & Amy R. Williamsen (New York: Lang, 2016. Ibérica 44), 303310
23.
‘El secreto como hilo dramático que enmaraña una acción trágica’
(Heidelberg)
24.
‘Biblia y comedia: la caraceterización del héroe mediante una lectura teatral’
(Jerusalem)
25.
‘Ver accion tragica donde no la hay : perspectivas criticas sobre La devocion
de la Cruz” (Univ. Wein))
VII
1.
(ARTICLES IN PRINT)
Introduction to Papers of the Seventh and Eighth British Judeo-Spanish
Conference: Glasgow 1991 & Leeds 1993, ed. Paul. J. Donnelly (Glasgow:
Glasgow University Press)
[10pp.]
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2.
‘Entre la Comedia del Siglo de Oro y Brecht’, in Jornades Bertolt Brecht, ed.
Ricard Salvat (Barcelona: Institut del Teatre)
[34pp.]
3.
‘Listening to the Playwright's Voice: Shakespeare and Theatrical Writing
[14pp.]
4.
‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen: Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard
III’
[15pp]
VIII REVIEW
Review of PETER E. THOMPSON. The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay
Actor of the Spanish Golden Age in Revista de estudios canadienses,
31:3 (2008), p. 551
IX PAPERS DELIVERED AT RECENT CONFERENCES
December, 1994 ‘Staging Calderón's El alcalde’, Modern Language Association
Convention, San Diego
December, 1995 ‘The Problematics of Genre: Calderón's Devotional Comedy’,
Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago
March, 1996
‘Considering the Genre of Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea’,
Golden-Age Symposium, UTEP, El Paso (Texas)
July, 1996
‘Para representar la clausura’, AHCT Simposio sobre el teatro del Siglo
de Oro, Almagro (Spain)
July, 1996
‘Pedro Crespo y la problematización del género en una lectura teatral’,
Undécimo coloquio anglogermano sobre Pedro Calderón de la Barca,
University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
October, 1996 ‘Staging Lorca’, Humanities College, Bucknell University (USA)
November, 1996 ‘La cuestión del género en la comedia del Siglo de Oro español’,
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
November 1996 ‘Del final al comienzo: modelo para leer y montar a los clásicos’,
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de México
Nov., 1996
‘Tracing Tirso’s Stage-Directions in El burlador de Sevilla and
Other Plays’, Dept. of Modern Langs., Georgetow University,
Washington D.C.
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December, 1996 ‘Religious versus Secular Spectating: The Case for the GoldenAge Comedia’, Modern Language Association Convention,
Washington, D.C.
January, 1997 ‘Reading the Spanish Golden-Age Comedia for the Stage’, Guest
lecture, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Yale University, USA
11.
March, 1997
‘Studying Renaissance Drama as Theatre: Shakespeare and
Calderón’, Guest Lecture, Dept. of English, Universidad Autónoma,
Madrid
March, 1997
‘Approaches to Performance: the Compañía Nacional de Teatro
Clásico and the Royal Shakespeare Company ‘, Guest Lecture, Dept. of
Theatre Studies, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
June, 1997
‘The Theoretical vis-à-vis the Practical: Directing Calderón’s The
Physician of his Honour, Association Internationale du Théatre à
l’Université, Montréal, Canada
March, 1998 ‘Reverentiality and Theatrical Practice: Perspectives on the Comedia’
AHCT Golden -Age Symposium, El Paso, Texas
November, 1998 ‘Entre Brecht y el teatro del Siglo de Oro español’, Institut del
Teatre, Barcelona
December, 1998 ‘El abolengo dramático del protagonista trágico español: la
Bernarda Alba de García Lorca’, Congreso Interancional ‘Así que han
pasado cien años’, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
December, 1998 ‘La problemática de la lectura teatral del personaje en las tragedias
de Federico García Lorca’, Simposio internacional sobre la Generación
del ‘98, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
March, 1999 ‘Los espacios del texto teatral’, AHCT Golden Age Symposium, El
Paso, Texas
July, 2000
‘Midiendo los pasos de d. Juan sobre las tables: Cuando Tirso habla’,
AHCT Simposio sobre el teatro del Siglo de Oro, Almagro (Spain)
November, 2001 ‘Staging a Classic: Calderon’s Life is a Dream and the Sydney
Theatre Company’s Production’, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Sydney
University
November, 2001 ‘Perception and the Theatre of the World’, Guest Lecture, Jewish
National Fund, Adelaide
February, 2002 ‘Provoking the Audience: the Problematics of Responding in the
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Theatre’, Public Lecture, Playbox Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
July, 2007
‘Shakespeare’s Shylock’, The Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia
August, 2008 ‘ Theatre and National Identity: the case of Israeli Theatre’ University
of Buenos Aires, Argentina
August, 2009
‘Shylock the Jew?’, Univ. of Capetown
November, 2009 ‘El poeta canta en dos lenguas’, Univ. de Castilla la La Mancha
(Toledo)
March, 2010,
May, 2010
‘Reading the Duke in Lope’s El castigo’, AHCT Golden Age
Symposium, El Paso, Texas
‘Listening to the Playwright’s Voice’, Florida Atlantic Univ., Florida
February, 2011 ‘Straightening the Record on Bernarda Alba’, Public lecture at the
Faculty of Humanities, Georgetown University, Washinton D.C.
November, 2012 ‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen’, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
November, 2013 ‘Constructing Stage Character|: The Duke of Ferrara in Lope’s
El castigo sin venganza’ In the Wings Conference, Bath, UK
December, 2014 ‘Probing the Playwright’s Pen: Shakespeare and Theatrical
Writing” (Dept. of English Research Seminar, Frei Universitat,
Berlin
March, 2015
‘El secreto como hilo dramático que enmarana: Calderón y El médico
de su honra” Hispanistentag, Universitat Heidelberg
November, 2015 ‘Biblia y comedia: la caraceterización del héroe mediante una
lectura teatral’ Jerusalem Bible conference
July/August 2015
3 Sydney lectures.
X RECENT ֹTHEATRE PRODUCTIONS
1991
García Lorca's Blood Wedding (in Hebrew), The University Theatre
Company - The Hebrew University, at The Jerusalem Theatre,
Jerusalem
1992
García Lorca's Yerma (in Hebrew), The University Theatre Company The Hebrew University, at the Gerard Behar Centre for the Performing
Arts, Jerusalem
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1993
Chorus (one-act play). Composed and directed.
Presented at The First National Student Theatre Festival, at the Gerard
Behar Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem
1994
Isaac Chocrón's Escrito y Sellado (in Hebrew), The University Theatre
Company - The Hebrew University, at Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem
1997
Calderón de la Barca’s The Physician of his Honour (= El medico de su
honra) (in English), Professional Theatre Training Programme,
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Performed at Festival of Spanish
Golden-Age Drama, El Paso, Texas.
Awarded the Walker M. Reid Award.
Reviewed in Primer Acto (Madrid), Sept.-Oct. 1997, 104-07
1998
Confessions Project in progress, composed and directed by Irit Amar
and Isaac Benabu The University Theatre Company - The Hebrew
University. Presented at the 5th Jerusalem International Festival of
University Theatre at the Gerard Behar Centre for the Performing Arts,
Jerusalem
1999-2000
Confession times Three Based on an idea by Irit Amar & Isaac
Slomiansky, and developed by Irit Amar and Isaac Benabu. Directed by
Isaac Benabu. Presented at The International Student Theatre Festival,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland, The International Theatre Festival,
Université de Franche-Comté, Besancon, France, and The 7th Jerusalem
International Festival of University Theatre
2000
Directed Matilda Cohen-Sarano’s musical Sefaradis de dor en dor ( in
Ladino) with music by Haim Tsur for the Israel Broadcasting
Corporation
2002
Tirso de Molina’s El burlador de Sevilla (=The Trickster of Seville),
AIET, Universidad de Barcelona. Presented at the International Festival
of Siglo de Oro Festival, El Paso, Texas, and subsequently on tour in N.
Mexico
2004
The Two Charlottes by Nora Glickman. Presented at various venues in
New York during February, and at the International Theatre Festival,
Quito, Ecuador in March.
2004 -10
The Days of Adel [in Hebrew] by Uri Nitsan. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
(running in several commercial theatres).
2005
Entanglement (a fictional adaptation based on the life of Einstein) by Mara
Beller. Premiered at The Khan Theatre, Jerusalem
2007-8
Romancero Lorquiano (Lorca meets death on the boards), University
Theatre, Jerusalem & University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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XI INTERNATIONAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS, PLAY-READINGS, ETC.
1991
‘In the End is the Beginning: Reading for the Stage’,
Sixteenth Siglo de Oro Festival, Texas - in collaboration with the
Compañía Paco Portes (Madrid)
1991
`Staging the Golden-Age Comedia',
Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico, Almagro (Spain) - in
collaboration with Paco Portes
1993
`Playing the Lady: from text to stage',
Seventeenth Siglo de Oro Festival, Texas - in collaboration with
Maritza Wilde (Bolivia)
1996
`Bi-lingual Theatre in Performance', ARTUS, University of Strasbourg
1997
Directed a public play-reading of Isaac Chocrón’s Inscribed and Sealed
(in English), American Friends of the Hebrew University Inc., at 362
West Broadway, New York. In the presence of the playwright and
Edward Albee
2007
‘On the Road to Performance: Work-shopping Two Monodramas’, The
Graduate Centre, CUNY, New York. With the collaboration of a Nora
Glickman (playwright) and Fortuna Roth (actor)
Add 3 Sydney lectures in 2015