Theatre history studies 2016. Volume 35
Sara Freeman (Editor)
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
Print Book, English, 2016
University Of Alabama Press, [Tuscaloosa, Alabama], 2016
Theatre history studies, v.35
History
ix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780817371104, 0817371109
953552702
List of illustrations
Introduction / Sara Freeman. Part 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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
Jase Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds., Embodied consciousness: performance technologies / Reviewed by Scott C. Knowles
Gareth White, Audience participation in theatre: aesthetics of the invitation / Reviewed by Patrick M. Konesko
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
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