Valleri Robinson
@vallerirobinson.bsky.social
Theatre historian/dramaturg at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focusing on Eastern Europe. Department Head, Illinois Theatre, UIUC
My article and interview with director Javor Gardev is now available in Contemporary Theatre Review: “Staging Vulnerability: Precarity, Dispossession, and the Limits of Despair”
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My article and interview with director Javor Gardev is now available in Contemporary Theatre Review: “Staging Vulnerability: Precarity, Dispossession, and the Limits of Despair”
Caligula's Spectacular Power
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Caligula's Spectacular Power
World Theatre Day and Albert Camus's Caligula
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April 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Caligula's Spectacular Power
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Available now through Cambridge Core and coming soon in Theatre Survey. Open Access:
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March 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Available now through Cambridge Core and coming soon in Theatre Survey. Open Access:
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Starting a little newsletter on Substack, "Performing Power," where I'll write weekly about performances of power in theatrical productions, performance events of resistance, and political performances of power, past and present
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Performing Power
Authoritarian melodrama and the theatricalization of life
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March 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Starting a little newsletter on Substack, "Performing Power," where I'll write weekly about performances of power in theatrical productions, performance events of resistance, and political performances of power, past and present
open.substack.com/pub/vallerir...
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Of 13 finalists across campus for Grad College research awards, 2 were from Illinois Theatre (the only representatives from the arts and humanities). I’m so proud of the work we do!
March 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Of 13 finalists across campus for Grad College research awards, 2 were from Illinois Theatre (the only representatives from the arts and humanities). I’m so proud of the work we do!
Multi year collaboration with Third Rail Projects and Illinois Theatre started today, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!
March 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Multi year collaboration with Third Rail Projects and Illinois Theatre started today, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!
New OpED out today!
Ukrainian President Zelensky's Improvisational Leadership by Valleri Robinson - VISIBLE Magazine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered us a masterclass in improvisational leadership. Time and again, especially since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022, he’s used h...
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March 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New OpED out today!
Bravo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today for his excellent masterclass on leadership, communication, and schooling the bullies. Heartening to see EU leadership responding with phenomenal support. Well done and Слава Україні!
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Bravo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today for his excellent masterclass on leadership, communication, and schooling the bullies. Heartening to see EU leadership responding with phenomenal support. Well done and Слава Україні!
One panelist called it the best conversation on AI on campus so far…our talk on AI and the Arts at UIUC, sponsored by Illinois Theatre
February 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
One panelist called it the best conversation on AI on campus so far…our talk on AI and the Arts at UIUC, sponsored by Illinois Theatre
So fortunate to be in a state investing in higher education and our shared future right now. Thank you, Gov. Pritzker, for your leadership!
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February 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
So fortunate to be in a state investing in higher education and our shared future right now. Thank you, Gov. Pritzker, for your leadership!
If you are in Champaign-Urbana next week
February 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you are in Champaign-Urbana next week
Reminding me of the closure of the Federal Theatre Project's 1937 production of Louis Lantz and Oscar Saul’s children's play REVOLT OF THE BEAVERS.
Kennedy Center Cancels Tour of New Children's Musical, FINN
Creators of the new children's musical Finn, Chris Nee, Michael Kooman, and Christopher Dimond, announced on Instagram that the upcoming Kennedy Center-produced tour has been cancelled. The musical pr...
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February 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reminding me of the closure of the Federal Theatre Project's 1937 production of Louis Lantz and Oscar Saul’s children's play REVOLT OF THE BEAVERS.
Reposted by Valleri Robinson
Pavel Talankin kept months’ worth of footage filmed at the Chelyabinsk region school where he worked to produce “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” a rare firsthand glimpse at how Russian schools have become tools of state propaganda.
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’: A Schoolteacher’s Stand Against Russia’s Child Indoctrination - The Moscow Times
Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working as a school event coordinator in Karabash, a copper-smelting hub in Russia’s Chelyabinsk regi...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Pavel Talankin kept months’ worth of footage filmed at the Chelyabinsk region school where he worked to produce “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” a rare firsthand glimpse at how Russian schools have become tools of state propaganda.
My colleague Scott Neale designed this immersive theatre experience in Chicago in collaboration with Albany Park Theatre Project and Third Rail Productions. New performances dates Feb-April.
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PORT OF ENTRY: A Short Film
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January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My colleague Scott Neale designed this immersive theatre experience in Chicago in collaboration with Albany Park Theatre Project and Third Rail Productions. New performances dates Feb-April.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTm...
I just finished Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN for the first time since Georgi Gospodinov refers to it so meaningfully in TIME SHELTER. Has anyone seen Krystian Lupa's adaptation: www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/the-mag...? I'd love to see it!
The Magic Mountain • Salzburg Festival 2024
TICKETS & PROGRAM - The Magic Mountain • Official website
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January 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I just finished Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN for the first time since Georgi Gospodinov refers to it so meaningfully in TIME SHELTER. Has anyone seen Krystian Lupa's adaptation: www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/p/the-mag...? I'd love to see it!
My 20yo daughter’s first publication just came out. Very proud mama. Happy New Year, everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My 20yo daughter’s first publication just came out. Very proud mama. Happy New Year, everyone!
Reading a lot of Hannah Arendt lately and noticing how key the theatre and theatrical metaphors are to her thinking. I’m only finding a few articles on this. What extensive studies am I missing?
December 27, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Reading a lot of Hannah Arendt lately and noticing how key the theatre and theatrical metaphors are to her thinking. I’m only finding a few articles on this. What extensive studies am I missing?
Now available online here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests
Cambridge Core - Drama and Theatre: General Interest - Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests
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December 23, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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New Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast:
Jessica Hecht's incredibly sensitive reading of Olha Matsiupa's beautiful "Flowering," translated by the great John Farndon! And I love Jessica's insight in our post-reading conversation.
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Jessica Hecht's incredibly sensitive reading of Olha Matsiupa's beautiful "Flowering," translated by the great John Farndon! And I love Jessica's insight in our post-reading conversation.
youtu.be/CjOJsmKmUE0?...
Episode 7. Jessica Hecht – Flowering
YouTube video by Ukrainska Pravda in English
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December 16, 2024 at 12:07 PM
New Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast:
Jessica Hecht's incredibly sensitive reading of Olha Matsiupa's beautiful "Flowering," translated by the great John Farndon! And I love Jessica's insight in our post-reading conversation.
youtu.be/CjOJsmKmUE0?...
Jessica Hecht's incredibly sensitive reading of Olha Matsiupa's beautiful "Flowering," translated by the great John Farndon! And I love Jessica's insight in our post-reading conversation.
youtu.be/CjOJsmKmUE0?...
IL Congresswoman Delia Ramirez recognizes PORT OF ENTRY, designed by IIllinois Theatre Professor Scott Neale in collaboration with Albany Park Theatre Project and Third Rail Projects in Congress today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6I...
APTP & Port of Entry in Congress
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December 12, 2024 at 12:02 AM
IL Congresswoman Delia Ramirez recognizes PORT OF ENTRY, designed by IIllinois Theatre Professor Scott Neale in collaboration with Albany Park Theatre Project and Third Rail Projects in Congress today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6I...
Terrific episode - glad to find it in my inbox this morning!
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Richard Nelson was in Kyiv directing one of his plays as bombs fell. The experience was life changing.
One of America's finest playwrights talked to us about the nine weeks he spent in the spring directing "Conversations at Tusculum" in the Ukraine capital
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December 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Terrific episode - glad to find it in my inbox this morning!
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