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          • Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
          Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35

          Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35

          Theatre History Studies

          Edited by Sara Freeman

          Contributions by Sara Freeman, Jennifer Douglas, Karen Bamford, Brian E. G. Cook, Ann Haugo, Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Jozefina Komporaly, Karin Maresh, Irma Mayorga, Sheila Rabillard, Rebecca Rovit, Margaret Savilonis, Arden Elizabeth Thomas, Steve Tillis, Scott Venters, Jennifer Worth, Jay Ball, Amanda Boyle, Alex Cahill, Rachel Price Cooper, Danny Devlin, Jennifer Goff, Stuart J. Hecht, Scott C. Knowles, Patrick M. Konesko, Felicia Hardison Londré, Duygu Erdogan Monson, Patrick J. Murray, Wes D. Pearce, Kate Roark, Emily A. Rollie, Michelle Salerno and Claire Syler

          Introduction by Sara Freeman

          392 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.00 in, 10 B&W figures

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          • 9780817371104
          • Published: December 2016

          $34.95

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          • 9780817390747
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          Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal” in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay “Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard,” a keynote essay by Irma Mayorga, and eighteen reviews of new book publications of note.
           
          Theatre History Studies, published since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC) is a leading scholarly publication in the field of theatrical history and theory. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.
          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�������������������

          Sara Freeman is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Puget Sound. Freeman is a coediter of International Dramaturgy: Translation and Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker and recently staged Spring Awakening, the musical.

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