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Documentary and Community Theatre with Young People in Madrid: The Creative Process of Mundo Quinta New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Luisa García-Manso
Mundo Quinta is a documentary theatre creation programme for adolescents in Madrid, launched by Espacio Abierto Quinta de los Molinos and directed by the theatre company Cross Border Project. This publicly funded programme started in 2018 and is currently celebrating its sixth season. Each season takes place during the academic year and culminates in the premiere of a new play. This article combines
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Not Billington, not Zoella, and Definitely not a ‘Fangirl’: Social Distinction within Communities of Amateur Theatre Critics New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Megan Vaughan
In theatre criticism, the lines between professional and amateur have softened considerably since the turn of the twenty-first century, with much attention – academic and journalistic – given to the impact of amateur theatre criticism on theatre-making and marketing, on newspapers, and on theatre scholarship. So far, however, the voices and perspectives of amateur critics themselves have largely been
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Embodied Gestures of Human Rights: Remorse, Sentiment, and Sympathy in Romantic Regency Drama New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Eva Urban
This article demonstrates how the Enlightenment model of sentiment and sympathy is performed in embodied gestures of affective empathy-building, cross-cultural fraternity, and concern for human rights in three Romantic Regency tragedies: Pizarro (1799) by the Romantic dramatist August von Kotzebue, adapted from the German by the Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Remorse (1813) by the English
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British Theatre from Agitprop to ‘Primark Playwriting’ New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 David Edgar, Hakan Gültekin
In this interview, which took place in Birmingham on 16 February 2023, Hakan Gültekin talks to playwright David Edgar about his theatre universe and the current state of British theatre. Edgar has long championed the social and economic rights of playwrights, and here suggests that the lack of long-term and sustained support from British theatres has created what he calls ‘Primark playwrights’. His
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Mysticism as Transgression in Chista Yasrebi’s Rahil New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar
As a prominent figure in the contemporary Iranian theatre scene, Chista Yasrebi uses her plays to call for female liberation in the country while navigating the existing political constraints, including censorship. Her 1996 play Rahil, for example, acts as a political allegory through its narrative of the titular woman’s desire for transcendence within the patriarchal realm of Persian mysticism. In
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Othello: A Moor Rorschach Test New Theatre Quarterly (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Akaela Michels-Gualtieri
The evolution of the colour of Othello’s skin-tone is a surprisingly accurate cultural barometer of attitudes towards race in the eyes of scholars. A significant portion of the critical literature is focused upon the Moor’s complexion as one of the main variables within the play. Yet the fact that the script has itself become a variable, and not a constant, has been neglected. This text’s transformation
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Prologue Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Julia C. Hernández
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Prologue Julia C. Hernández A Suelta State of Mind A stroll down early eighteenth-century Seville’s short but bustling Calle de Génova, a long-disappeared market street that had linked the Plaza de El Salvador and the Plaza de San Francisco since the city’s Castilian conquest in 1248, would bring the comedia enthusiast to the heart of
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Methods of a Sixteenth-Century Actor-Director: Lope de Rueda's Performance-Based Approach to Adaptation Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Alex J. H. Thomas
Abstract: Despite the derivative plotlines, crude characterizations, and prioritization of performance over posterity for which scholars have criticized his Cuatro comedias, Lope de Rueda (1505?–65?) received great acclaim among contemporaries. To reconcile this disconnect between abiding popular acclaim in the late sixteenth century and critical dismissals in literary histories, this article draws
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Marvelous Dualities in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's El semejante a sí mismo Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 José Estrada
Abstract: An examination of the layered, dual meanings of the term maravilla in El semejante a sí mismo shows the hand of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón navigating his own criollo identity. The double meanings of maravilla reflect a conflict between the inclination to adopt the dominant views and rhetoric of the Spanish Empire and the counterbalancing impulse to undermine this colonial agenda. This article observes
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El gran teatro del mundo de Calderón de la Barca: Ortodoxia y textos prohibidos Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Hernán Matzkevich
Abstract: This article examines the connections of El gran teatro del mundo with heterodox intellectual traditions that the Spanish Inquisition targeted for scrutiny or censorship. While many critics have considered El gran teatro del mundo a prominent example of Calderón de la Barca’s Catholic orthodoxy, this study ponders discursive elements that link the auto sacramental to Neoplatonic natural philosophy
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Calderón, Spinoza y los afectos en escena Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Clara Monzó Ribes
Abstract: Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the philosopher Baruch Spinoza manifested, each in their own way, that profound interest in the intricacies of the human being that was so characteristic of early modern mentalities. The playwright and philosopher each delved into the exploration of passions and affections, construed as being in constant conflict with reason. These pages analyze the common ties
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Panorama de la música en el entremés representado del primer Barroco. El caso de Jerónimo de Cáncer Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Juan C. González Maya
Abstract: This article examines an almost completely unexplored element in Jerónimo de Cáncer’s comic interludes (entremeses)—the music. Through analysis of his own works as well as comparative examinations of Cáncer’s theatrical practice with those of other dramaturgs who cultivated the entremés genre, including Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Luis Quiñones de Benavente, we find Cáncer at the forefront
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The Wisdom, Unbound, of Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum: On Collaboration, Comedias Sueltas, and Other Scholarly Enterprises Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Julia C. Hernández
Abstract: Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum, lifelong bibliophile and the creator of the Comedias Suelta USA website, welcomed Associate Editor Julia Hernández into her book-filled Upper East Side apartment in New York City. In their conversation, Szmuk-Tanenbaum discussed her journey as a scholar and librarian; her inspiration for developing online bibliographic databases; her service to the Bulletin of the
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The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata by Pamela Allen Brown (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 David J. Amelang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata by Pamela Allen Brown David J. Amelang Pamela Allen Brown. The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata. OXFORD UP, 2021. 302 PP. “‘FOR WHAT Is A PLAY WITHOUT A WOMAN IN IT?’” The epigraph that launches
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Poesía y música en la Roma barroca. El cancionero español Corsini 625 by Patrizia Botta (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Sebastián León
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Poesía y música en la Roma barroca. El cancionero español Corsini 625 by Patrizia Botta Sebastián León Patrizia Botta, coordinadora. Poesía y música en la Roma barroca. El cancionero español Corsini 625. LIGUORI EDITORE, 2023. 532 PP. EL LLAMADO CANCIONERO CORSINI 625 es un manuscrito copiado en Roma a principios del siglo
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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture ed. by Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Caroline Egan (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Richard Rabone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture ed. by Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Caroline Egan Richard Rabone Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Caroline Egan, editors. The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture. ROUTLEDGE, 2022. 639 PP. THE GENRE OF THE
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Entremeses by Miguel de Cervantes (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Javier Rubiera
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Entremeses by Miguel de Cervantes Javier Rubiera Miguel de Cervantes. Entremeses. Edición de Adrián J. Sáez. CÁTEDRA, 2020. 296 PP. LOS OCHO ENTREMESES PUBLICADOS POR CERVANTES en 1615 reciben nueva edición en Cátedra, que desde 1982 tenía en su colección de Letras Hispánicas la realizada desde una orientación bien diferente
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La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Imogen Choi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla Imogen Choi Alonso de Ercilla. La Araucana. Edited by Luis Gómez Canseco. REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA–ESPASA, 2022. 1488 PP. WHILE ALWAYS A PROMINENT TITLE OF THE GOLDEN AGE canon, La Araucana has been the object of a steady growth in scholarship over recent decades, which shows no signs of abating
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Dramaturgas del Siglo de Oro. Guía completa by Juana Escabias (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Victoria Jane Rasbridge
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dramaturgas del Siglo de Oro. Guía completa by Juana Escabias Victoria Jane Rasbridge Juana Escabias. Dramaturgas del Siglo de Oro. Guía completa. EDICIONES ANTÍGONA, 2022. 170 PP. IN COMEDIA STUDIES THERE HAS LONG BEEN an imbalance in favor of the work of male dramatists, but in recent decades there has been a concerted effort
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Pasiones mitológicas: Tiziano, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez by Miguel Falomir et al. (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Oliver Noble Wood
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pasiones mitológicas: Tiziano, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez by Miguel Falomir et al. Oliver Noble Wood Miguel Falomir, Sheila Barker, Javier Moscoso, and Alejandro Vergara (coords.). Pasiones mitológicas: Tiziano, Veronese, Allori, Rubens, Ribera, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez. MUSEO DEL PRADO
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Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes's Theatrical Revelations ed. by Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Melanie Henry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations ed. by Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín Melanie Henry Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín, editors. Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations. U OF TORONTO P, 2022. 392 PP. CERVANTES’S DRAMATIC OEUVRE HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED a failed endeavor
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El aire español. Usos musicales de la nobleza española en Italia (1580–1640) by Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Adriana Beltrán del Río Sousa
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: El aire español. Usos musicales de la nobleza española en Italia (1580–1640) by Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen Adriana Beltrán del Río Sousa Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen. El aire español. Usos musicales de la nobleza española en Italia (1580–1640). CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS EUROPA HISPÁNICA, 2023. 320 PP. EN ESTA INTERESANTE MONOGRAFÍA derivada
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Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History by Sofie Kluge (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Alberto Villate-Isaza
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History by Sofie Kluge Alberto Villate-Isaza Sofie Kluge. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History. ROUTLEDGE UP, 2022. 234 PP. THIS NEW CONTRIBUTION BOTH CEMENTS our understanding of the Golden Age’s treatment of
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The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World by Nicole D. Legnani (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Ruth Hill
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World by Nicole D. Legnani Ruth Hill Nicole D. Legnani. The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World. U OF NOTRE DAME P, 2020. 300 PP. ATLANTIC (OR TRANSATLANTIC OR CIRCUMATLANTIC) studies has experienced such enormous growth in the past
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La monja alférez, famosa comedia atribuida a Juan Pérez de Montalbán ed. by Gabriel Andrés Renales (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Marta Albalá Pelegrín
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: La monja alférez, famosa comedia atribuida a Juan Pérez de Montalbán ed. by Gabriel Andrés Renales Marta Albalá Pelegrín La monja alférez, famosa comedia atribuida a Juan Pérez de Montalbán. Edición crítica de Gabriel Andrés Renales. METAURO EDIZIONI, 2020. 151 PP. LA MONJA ALFÉREZ (ca. 1626) is a theatrical rewriting of the
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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Noémie Ndiaye (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Sarah J. Adams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Noémie Ndiaye Sarah J. Adams Noémie Ndiaye. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. U OF PENNSYLVANIA P, 2022. 376 PP. THIS BOOK TRACES AND EXAMINES the performative praxes used in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century
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The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora by Felipe Valencia (review) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Ignacio Navarrete
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora by Felipe Valencia Ignacio Navarrete The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora. Felipe Valencia. U OF NEBRASKA P, 2021. 335 PP. FELIPE VALENCIA HAS WRITTEN a remarkable book, a wide-ranging study of early modern poetry, in the manner of
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‘Severe’ Sensory Theatre: Building Relational Disability Politics during UK COVID Lockdowns Theatre Research International (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 ALISON MAHONEY
This article examines the COVID-era shift in the disability politics of sensory-theatre artists in the United Kingdom who create work for neurodiverse young audiences, arguing that the pandemic pushed them toward a more expansive and overtly political understanding of disability. I examine the work of three companies – Oily Cart (London), Frozen Light (Norwich) and Spectra (Birmingham) – who adjusted
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Puppetry Networks of the Island of Naoshima Theatre Research International (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 JYANA S. BROWNE
The Naoshima Onna Bunraku, an all-female bunraku troupe on the island of Naoshima in Japan's Seto Inland Sea, has revitalized a puppetry tradition dating back to the Edo period (1603–1868). This article examines how the Naoshima Onna Bunraku negotiates the pull of its local, community-oriented past and its global present as a folk performing art on an island now known for art tourism as the site of
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The End of an Impassioned Feud: The 2022 Oberammergau Passion Play and the Public Embrace of Progressive Politics Theatre Research International (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 ELLIOT LEFFLER
The Oberammergau Passion Play – arguably the largest and longest-running Passion Play tradition in the world – depicts Jesus’ arrest, conviction and crucifixion at a spellbinding scale. It has also been at the centre of a controversy regarding its historic antisemitism and its efforts to reform, having engaged a director with a zeal for radically changing it. However, this article, informed by a large
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In Memoriam: Clifford O. Davidson: 1932–2024 Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In MemoriamClifford O. Davidson: 1932–2024 Click for larger view View full resolution In Memoriam Clifford O. Davidson (1932–2024) When Clifford Davidson retired from Western Michigan University in 2003, the Medieval Institute, where he held a joint appointment with English for nearly 40 years, printed a short volume of essays in his honor
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"Simply Sitting in a Chair": Questioning Representational Practice and Dramatic Convention in Marguerite Duras's L'Amante anglaise and The Viaducts of Seine-et-Oise Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Shelley Orr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ”Simply Sitting in a Chair”: Questioning Representational Practice and Dramatic Convention in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amante anglaise and The Viaducts of Seine-et-Oise Shelley Orr (bio) One doesn’t know in life when things are there. They escape you . . . You want to know what it would take for it to be so. For me to be on stage saying nothing
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Rewriting Idolatry: Doctor Faustus and Romeo and Juliet Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Tom Rutter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rewriting Idolatry: Doctor Faustus and Romeo and Juliet Tom Rutter (bio) FAUSTUS Her lips sucks forth my soul. See where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Marlowe, Doctor Faustus ROMEO Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 1 The lines quoted above accompany what
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Measuring Protagonism in Early Modern European Theatre: A Distant Reading of the Character of Sophonisba Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 David J. Amelang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Measuring Protagonism in Early Modern European Theatre: A Distant Reading of the Character of Sophonisba David J. Amelang (bio) Introduction Any person taking their first steps into the wide and complex world of early modern comparative theatre history immediately confronts one basic fact: that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England by Holly Crawford Pickett (review) Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Arthur F. Marotti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England by Holly Crawford Pickett Arthur F. Marotti (bio) Holly Crawford Pickett. The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. Pp. x + 264 + 8 b/w illus. $65.00 hardcover, $65.00 eBook. This study departs from
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Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire by Logan J. Connors (review) Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Yann Robert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire by Logan J. Connors Yann Robert (bio) Logan J. Connors. Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x + 255 + 9 b/w illus. $110.00 hardback, $110.00 eBook. Logan J. Connors
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (review) Comparative Drama (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Christopher Crosbie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Macbeth by William Shakespeare Christopher Crosbie (bio) Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, directed by Simon Godwin, The Shakespeare Company, Washington, D.C. (April 9 – May 5, 2024) The penultimate figure in Jacques’ “seven ages of man” soliloquy brilliantly conveys the vulnerabilities of old age, presenting us with a person
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Meaningful agency in participatory performance: a contextual approach Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Astrid Breel
Agency is a significant concept in participatory performance: as a participant you are able to take actions that affect the direction or outcome of (part of) the performance and this ability is a k...
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Let it Burn: Smell, Participation, and Solidarity in Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz Contemporary Theatre Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Emma Welton
Burgerz, first staged in 2018, is a one-person show by British theatre-maker and writer Travis Alabanza. The production re-enacts an incident of transphobic violence Alabanza faced in 2016, during ...
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Decolonizing Site-Specific Performance Methodologies: Preliminary Steps Contemporary Theatre Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Melanie Kloetzel
As viral contagions, pandemic lockdowns and technological innovations transform daily routines, the relationship between art and public space changes as well. Through a long-term investigative and ...
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Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform Contemporary Theatre Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Jenny Hughes
Published in Contemporary Theatre Review (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2024)
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Rethinking Didactic Theatre for a Young Audience Contemporary Theatre Review (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Naphtaly Shem-Tov
Didactic theatre for a young audience (TYA) is perceived as a widespread obstacle to the artistic quality and value of TYA. This article rethinks and deconstructs the assumptions that didactic TYA ...
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Paul Innes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Macbeth by William Shakespeare Paul Innes MACBETH. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Richard Twyman. Dubai Opera House, Dubai. November 4, 2023. Major theatrical productions were understandably on hiatus in the United Arab Emirates during the COVID-19 emergency. Large-scale events are beginning to resume, however, and the
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Pageant By Joan FitzPatrick Dean (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 David J. Eshelman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pageant By Joan FitzPatrick Dean David J. Eshelman PAGEANT. By Joan FitzPatrick Dean. Forms of Drama Series. London: Methuen, 2021; pp. 177. Pageants are large-scale scripted events designed to appeal to, include, and build communities. Joan FitzPatrick Dean’s book serves as an introduction to the pageant form, with three
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Marginality Beyond Return: Us Cuban Performances in the 1980s and 1990s by Lillian Manzor (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Eric Mayer-García
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Marginality Beyond Return: Us Cuban Performances in the 1980s and 1990s by Lillian Manzor Eric Mayer-García MARGINALITY BEYOND RETURN: US CUBAN PERFORMANCES IN THE 1980s AND 1990s. By Lillian Manzor. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 2023; pp. 321. Lillian Manzor’s Marginality beyond Return:
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Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism ed. by Sharon Mazer, Heather Levi, Eero Laine, and Nell Haynes (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Scott Magelssen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism ed. by Sharon Mazer, Heather Levi, Eero Laine, and Nell Haynes Scott Magelssen PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING: POLITICS AND POPULISM. Edited by Sharon Mazer, Heather Levi, Eero Laine, and Nell Haynes. Enactment Series. London: Seagull Books, 2020; pp. 241. Professional wrestling might
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Editorial Comment: More Life Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Laura Edmondson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment: More Life Laura Edmondson I write this comment in the midst of rage. Earlier this month, on May 1, students at my home institution of Dartmouth College erected five tents in the college’s central green space as part of a pro-Palestine protest. In the context of widespread police action on US campuses, Dartmouth’s administration
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The Many Voices of Sissieretta Jones: Opera and the Sonic Necromancy of the Black Phonographic Archive Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Westley Montgomery
Abstract: Sissieretta Jones (1868-1933) is perhaps best remembered as one of the first Black opera singers, despite having never performed on the operatic stage. Exploring race and phonography as interlinking technologies of perception underlying and structuring the ability of audiences to perceive black performers, this essay analyzes the multiple Joneses produced through her archive—in reviews, promotional
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To the Life: Resurrection and Presence in The Second Maiden's Tragedy, Hamlet, and Fat Ham Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Lauren Robertson
Abstract: Occupying a central place in Jacques Derrida’s formulation of hauntology, Hamlet’s Ghost is familiar to contemporary performance theory, standing in for the secondariness and self-division that define dramatic representation. But there was another figure more emblematic of performance in the early modern English playhouse: the revenant. Examining the convention of resurrection as it was frequently
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Augmented Reality and Theatre Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 E. B. Hunter
Abstract: The technology industry’s recent spatial turn presents new opportunities for theatre and performance in the twenty-first century. One such opportunity is augmented reality (AR), a technology that overlays digitally rendered assets onto the user’s physical space, giving the appearance that those assets populate the physical world. Through an analysis of The Builders Association’s Elements
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A Visceral and Temporal Remix: Performing Reza Abdoh's Archives Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Nazli Akhtari
Abstract: This essay takes as its central concern the historical transmission of Reza Abdoh’s performance works via their circulation in the artist’s retrospective exhibit at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019. I analyze two interlaced defining features in the KW exhibition—archival remixing and viscerality—that the curators used to honor Abdoh’s artistic legacy. Focusing on the exhibit
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Stereophonic by David Adjmi (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Elizabeth L. Wollman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stereophonic by David Adjmi Elizabeth L. Wollman STEREOPHONIC. By David Adjmi, with music by Will Butler. Directed by Daniel Aukin. Playwrights Horizons, New York. October 15 and November 26, 2023. When Stereophonic began previews in October 2023, David Adjmi argued that despite its setting in a 1970s recording studio and
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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Adam Day Howard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy Adam Day Howard NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812. Book, music, and lyrics by Dave Malloy. Directed by Victoria Bussert. Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland. September 24, 2023. The Great Lakes Theater needs no introduction. It has been at the forefront of the regional
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Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Joseph A. Heissan Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Joseph A. Heissan Jr. DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Directed and choreographed by Simon McBurney. Metropolitan Opera House, New York. May 25, 2023. In Mozart’s singspiel Die Zauberflöte, the characters struggle to distinguish truth from
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Byggmeister Solness by Henrik Ibsen (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Andrew Friedman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Byggmeister Solness by Henrik Ibsen Andrew Friedman BYGGMEISTER SOLNESS. By Henrik Ibsen. Created by Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller, with music by Trond Reinholdtsen. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo. September 12 and 14, 2023. The words “Byggmeister Angst” flashed in neon above the stage throughout Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s eight-and-a-half-hour
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Lindsey Mantoan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Lindsey Mantoan OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. Ashland, OR. September 21-23, 2023. In the wake of tremendous upheaval at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), from leadership turnover to the COVID-19 pandemic to wildfires to audiences balking at a reduction in plays by Shakespeare in favor of new
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National Arts Festival (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 April Sizemore-Barber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: National Arts Festival April Sizemore-Barber NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL. Makhanda, South Africa. June 22-July 2, 2023. For nearly half a century, South Africa’s National Arts Festival (NAF) has been the premier platform for the artistic state of the nation. Its most recent outing in 2023 marked a hearty post-pandemic rebound,
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Root Beer Lady the Musical by Barbara Cary Hall (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Eero Laine
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Root Beer Lady the Musical by Barbara Cary Hall Eero Laine ROOT BEER LADY THE MUSICAL. Book, music, and lyrics by Barbara Cary Hall. Directed by Laurie Kess. Ely’s Historic State Theater, Ely, MN. September 8, 2023. If you drive far enough, you eventually run out of road. And if you’re driving north through Minnesota, you
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Watch Night by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Watch Night by Marc Bamuthi Joseph Sonja Arsham Kuftinec WATCH NIGHT. Co-conceived and libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Co-conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones. Music by Tamar-kali. Perelman Performing Arts Center, New York. November 12, 2023. Where are we? A marbled cube of cultural life in lower Manhattan, Perelman Performing
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The Second Wave: Reflections on The Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture by Rustom Bharucha (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Amanda Culp
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Second Wave: Reflections on The Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture by Rustom Bharucha Amanda Culp THE SECOND WAVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE PANDEMIC THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC CULTURE. By Rustom Bharucha. Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2022; pp. 230. Rustom Bharucha begins The Second Wave