Theatre Journal articles from December 1993

Theatre Journal archives from December 1993

Geographies of learning: theatre studies, performance, and the "performative." (Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Jill Dolan is Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is chair of the department. She is the author of Presence and Desire, a collection of essays forthcoming from the University of...

"Still living flesh": Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the phenomenological body. (Samuel Beckett, Maurice Merleau-Ponty)(Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Stanton B. Garner, Jr. is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of The Absent Voice: Narrative Comprehension in the Theater (1989) and has recently completed a book entitled Bodied Spaces:...

Staging the "native": making history in American theatre culture, 1828-1838. (Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Rosemarie K. Bank is Associate Professor of Theatre at Kent State University. She has just completed the manuscript Antebellum Stagings: Theatre Culture in the United States, 1825 to 1860, in which the constructs of "the frontier" and "the...

Reading for economic history. (in theater research)(Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Tracy C. Davis is the author of Victorian Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 1991), Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (Greenwood, forthcoming), and dozens of articles on Victorian theatre and...

Science, history, theatre: theorizing in two alternatives to positivism. (Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Tobin Nellhaus is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University. He has published articles and reviews in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and in Theatre Journal. Currently, he is working on a manuscript on how...

Constructing experience: a feminist theatre history. (Disciplinary Disruptions)
December 1, 1993... Charlotte Canning is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on a history of feminist theatre groups in the United States, to be published by Routledge. ...

Peer Gynt. (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York)
December 1, 1993... PEER GYNT. By Henrik Ibsen. Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. 14 May 1993. Ever since Ludvig Josephson staged the first production in 1876, Swedish directors have been irresistibly drawn to Henrik...

Small Domestic Acts. (St. Marcus Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri)
December 1, 1993... SMALL DOMESTIC ACTS. By Joan Lipkin. That Uppity Theatre Company's Alternate Currents/Direct Currems Series at the St. Marcus Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri. 4 December 1992. Joan Lipkin is something of an anomalous playwright who, far from...

The Desert Music: A Live Sho. (George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco)
December 1, 1993... THE DESERT MUSIC: A LIVE SHO. By George Coates, Steve Reich, William Carlos Williams, D.B. Cooper. George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco. 2 January 1993. While steam rose from the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas, and the...

Trono de Sangue/Macbeth. (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
December 1, 1993... TRONO DE SANGUE/MACBETH [THRONE OF BLOOD/MACBETH]. By William Shakespeare. Grupo de Teatro Macunaima, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 21 February 1993. With the purpose of establishing "a dynamic experimental nucleus aiming at the search for new...

No Trace of the Blonde. (Southern Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
December 1, 1993... NO TRACE OF THE BLONDE. By Holly Hughes. Southern Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 29 January 1993. In a departure from her more recent solo performance art pieces, Holly Hughes has written a comic text for several actresses. The play...

The Gift of the Gorgon. (Barbicon Pit Theatre, London)
December 1, 1993... THE GIFT OF THE GORGON. By Peter Shaffer. The Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbicon Pit Theatre, London. 12 December 1992. After his brief fling with comedy in Lettice and Lovage, Peter Shaffer has once again returned to his vintage (and...

Hamlet. (Barbican Theatre, London)
December 1, 1993... HAMLET. By William Shakespeare. The Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London. 9 January 1993. Max Beerbohm once described the role of Hamlet as "a hoop through which every eminent actor must, sooner or later, jump." Kenneth...

Cold War Theatre.
December 1, 1993... COLD WAR THEATRE. By John Elsom. London and New York: Routledge, 1992; pp. ix + 198. $15.95 paper. While it may offer entertaining gossip about theatrical or political celebrities, Cold War Theatre does little to fulfil the author's...

The Second Time as Farce: Reflections in the Drama of Mean Times.
December 1, 1993... THE SECOND TIME AS FARCE: REFLECTIONS IN THE DRAMA OF MEAN TIMES. By David Edgar. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1988; pp. 265. $12.95 hardbound. While it may offer entertaining gossip about theatrical or political celebrities, Cold War...

The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention.
December 1, 1993... THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE: RADICAL THEATRE AS CULTURAL INTERVENTION. By Baz Kershaw. London and New York: Routledge, 1992; pp. ix + 281. $18.95 paper. While it may offer entertaining gossip about theatrical or political celebrities,...

Critical Theory and Performance.
December 1, 1993... CRITICAL THEORY AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Janelle G. Reineft and Joseph R. Roach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992; pp. vii + 455. $18.95. The title of this anthology requires, strictly speaking, the additionaI specifier...

Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1993... SHAW'S DAUGHTERS: DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER. By J. Ellen Gainor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991; pp, 282. $32.50. Shaw's Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender is a welcome...

Dancing 'Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance.
December 1, 1993... DANCING TILL DAWN: A CENTURY OF EXHIBITION BALLROOM DANCE. By Julie Malnig. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, Number 25. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992; pp. xi + 174. $42.95. Julie Malnig's Dancing 'Till Dawn: A Century of...

Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama.
December 1, 1993... RHETORIC AND THE ORIGINS OF MEDIEVAL DRAMA. By Jody Enders. Rhetoric and Society. Series edited by Wayne A. Rebhorn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992; pp. xiv + 281. $39.95 cloth. Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama and...

The Theatre of Medieval Europe: New Research in Early Medieval Drama.
December 1, 1993... THE THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE: NEW RESEARCH IN EARLY MEDIEVAL DRAMA. Edited by Eckehard Simon. Gambridge: Gambridge University Press, 1991; pp. xxii + 311. $49.50 cloth. Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama and The Theatre of...

Seven Gothic Dramas: 1789-1825.
December 1, 1993... SEVEN GOTHIC DRAMAS, 1789-1825 Edited by Jeffrey N. Cox. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992; pp. 425. $45.00 cloth. Opinions about the plays which filled London stages during the decades at the end of the eighteenth century and the...

Cabaret Performance, vol. 2, Europe 1920-1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs.
December 1, 1993... CABARET PERFORMANCE, VOLUME 11: EUROPE 1920-1940 SKETCHES, SONGS, MONOLOGUES, MEMOIRS. Selected and translated, with commentary, by Laurence Senelick. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992; pp. xv + 285. $45.00 cloth, $15.95...

Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre.
December 1, 1993... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & ELlA KAZAN: A COLLABORATION IN THE THEATRE. By Brenda Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992; pp. 201. $37.95. Brenda Murphy's book is a major study, required reading in fact, of the composition and...

The Plot of the Future: Utopia and Dystopia in Modern Drama.
December 1, 1993... THE PLOT OF THE FUTURE: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN MODERN DRAMA. By Dragan Klaic. THEATER: Theory/ Text/Performance Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991, pp. viii + 258. $39.50 cloth. Although Goethe associated the narrative...