Gareth White, Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation / Reviewed by Patrick M. Konesko
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction / Sara Freeman
Part I. Studies in Theatre History
Berlin’s “First Responder” Artists, 1945–1946: Theatre and Politics from the Rubble / Rebecca Rovit
“Would You Die for the Fatherland?”: Disciplining the German Commemorative Body / Scott Venters
Shocking the System: The Arts Council, the British Council, and the Paradox of Cherub Theatre Company / Brian E. G. Cook
The Long View of World Theatre History / Steve Tillis
Part II. Special Section: Rethinking the Maternal
Introduction to Part II / Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard
Poisoning the Mother/Land: An Ecofeminist Dramaturgy in José Rivera’s Marisol and Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints / Arden Elizabeth Thomas
Making a Spectacle: Motherhood in Contemporary British Theatre and Performance / Jozefina Komporaly
Un/Natural Motherhood in Marina Carr’s The Mai, Portia Couglan, and By the Bog of Cats . . . / Karin Maresh
Flying Babies and Pregnant Men: Staging Motherhood in Marina Carr’s Low in the Dark / Jennifer Douglas&
Mothers, Daughters, Identity, and Impossibilities / Rhona Justice-Malloy
“She Was Always Sad”: Remembering Mother in Caryl Churchill’s Not Enough Oxygen and A Number / Margaret Savilonis
“Who Let in One of Them Mothers?”: Maternal Perversity on the American Musical Stage / Jennifer Worth
Decolonizing Motherhood: Images of Mothering in First Nations Theatre / Ann Haugo
Part III. Essays from the Conference
The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay - Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard / Chandra Owenby Hopkins
Keynote Address - En Ser Inspirado | On Being Inspired / Irma Mayorga
Part IV. Book Reviews
John Fletcher, Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age / Reviewed by Jay Ball&
Florian N. Becker, Paola S. Hernández, and Brenda Werth, eds., Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater: Global Perspectives / Reviewed by Amanda Boyle
Gary Wills, Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time / Reviewed by Alex Cahill
Kim Solga, Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts / Reviewed by Rachel Price Cooper
Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter / Reviewed by Danny Devlin
Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and Scott Proudfit, eds., A History of Collective Creation and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance / Reviewed by Sara Freeman
Leslie Atkins Durham, Women’s Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century: Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries / Reviewed by Jennifer Goff
Chris Jones, Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater As Seen By “Chicago Tribune” Critics / Reviewed by Stuart J. Hecht&
Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds., Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies / Reviewed by Scott C. Knowles
Robert M. Dowling, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts, and Jackson R. Bryer and Robert M. Dowling, eds., Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews / Reviewed by Felicia Hardison Londré
Suraiya Faroqhi and Arzu Ozturkmen, eds., Celebration, Entertainment, and Theatre in the Ottoman World / Reviewed by Duygu Erdogan Monson
Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai, eds., Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 / Reviewed by Patrick J. Murray
John S. Bak, Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life / Reviewed by Wes D. Pearce
Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807–1833, Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833–1852, and Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852–1855 / Reviewed by Kate Roark&
Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow, eds., International Women Stage Directors / Reviewed by Emily A. Rollie
Lucy Nevitt, Theatre & Violence / Reviewed by Michelle Salerno&
Kurt A. Schreyer, Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft: Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage / Reviewed by Claire Syler
Books Received
Contributors