[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past decade and the tumultuous year that was 2020. Looking back and also ahead, current Transpositions editors…
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was designed to follow the ‘Time and Again’ art exhibition. The dramatic performance was originally scheduled to…
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans, the director cut it down to two hours, including intermission. What got the chop: the monologues…
Editors Note: This is the second installment of a two-part review. The After the Call event created by postgraduate practicing artists within the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) reached a zenith on Wednesday, 11th April with an interdisciplinary…
Shannon Craigo-Snell. The Empty Church:Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 220 pages. £51.00. At a time of great change politically and globally, The Empty Church is a very helpful, fascinating and important text which provides appropriate…
Danny Boyle, the British film director who is responsible for Trainspotting (1996), Sunshine (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), reprised his early directorial career on the stage with a modern adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 2011. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and…
David Brown has written, ‘Dance’s continuing engagement with the divine stands as a silent reprimand to the Church for so arbitrarily narrowing its own horizons.’ [1] Four examples of professional, world-class dance’s engagement with Christianity through the life of Jesus…
A few years ago, when I taught an undergraduate ‘systematic theology for artists’ class, we looked at the traditional ways certain biblical scenes are portrayed in Western visual art. There is a grammar to them—standard symbols, colours and placement—that allow…
Quality theatre presented from a Christian perspective is hard to find. It exists in small pockets, such as Lamb’s Players Theater in San Diego, California, or Taproot Theater in Seattle, Washington, but these are the exception rather than the norm.…