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Editorial Comment: Informal Archives, Remediations, and Disciplinary Desires Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Laura Edmondson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment: Informal Archives, Remediations, and Disciplinary Desires Laura Edmondson The 75th anniversary issue of Theatre Journal is replete with pleasure, praise, critique, and desire. The journal’s invitation to think through the past, present, and future of the journal as articulated in the Call for Papers generated a robust
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Theatre and Capital Once Again: An Essay on an Informal Archive Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Loren Kruger
Abstract: This essay reviews Theatre Journal articles that examine the intersections of theatre and capital, to highlight the challenge of analyzing neoliberal transformations of global and glocal economies, in particular, the trend to financial speculation to the detriment of investment in public resources, and the impact on theatre and performance. Commentators in the “global” North can better understand
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"Moving Through and Beyond": Asian American Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Josephine Lee
Abstract: For decades, Theatre Journal has deeply engaged with different aspects of Asian American theatre and performance. This essay surveys a range of Theatre Journal articles published from the 1990s in order to map out this distinctive area of theatre and performance studies. Key articles by James Moy, Karen Shimakawa, and Daphne Lei grapple with the legacy of racial stereotypes and the aesthetics
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A Set of Questions for a Field in Motion: Susan Leigh Foster's "Choreographies of Protest" and Dance Studies in Theatre Journal Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alison Bory, Ariel Nereson
Abstract: In her landmark essay “Choreographies of Protest,” Susan Leigh Foster articulated the central concerns of the (at the time) developing field of dance studies. Foster’s following analysis, embedded in her argument about the compositional elements of social action, advanced core dance studies methodologies. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Theatre Journal, this essay revisits “Choreographies
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The Digital Turn: Research and Publishing in Theatre Journal Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Joanne Tompkins
Abstract: For the seventy-fifth anniversary special issue of Theatre Journal, it is appropriate to look back to a transition moment in the journal’s history, even if that moment is not very far in the journal’s past. This essay outlines the history behind the establishment of Theatre Journal’s online platform which was launched in 2016. It explores the ways in which Theatre Journal is prepared for
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In Praise of Performance Reviews Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Abstract: For decades, Theatre Journal has served as an important venue for documenting what made past theatrical productions or performances compelling and significant. As the journal commemorates its achievements over its first seventy-five volumes, this essay reflects on the vital contributions of the performance review section by considering its enduring impact on the field. In addition to tracing
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Passing Theatre Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 W. B. Worthen
Abstract: As a technology, theatre both absorbs and represents the technologies it deploys, and so is defined by the multiple temporalities of its instruments. The signifying embodiments, signifying materialities, and signifying narratives constitutive of theatre as rhetoric and practice articulate, depend on, and are altered by the changing emergence of a conceptual “human” (or the dispersion of a
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Catastrophe Practices and the Ontological Gambit: Nicholas Mosley's Plays for Not Acting Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew Sofer
Abstract: This article explores three experimental closet dramas by British writer Nicholas Mosley, part of the novel Catastrophe Practice (1979), which deserve wider recognition in the context of theatre studies’ current focus on catastrophe and futurity. Mosley’s enigmatic “Plays for Not Acting” promote a leap in consciousness, fostering fresh mental patterns to invigorate humanity. This evolutionary
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Revisiting (and Revising) West Side Story's Parahistories Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Brian Eugenio Herrera
Abstract: This essay returns to the author’s 2012 Theatre Journal article, “Compiling West Side Story’s Parahistories, 1949–2009,” to reassess the utility of “parahistory” as a critical or historiographic device to evince how “revisals” of canonical theatrical works might chart, illuminate, and document changes in the historical conditions of creative possibility. The essay then considers three notable
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"Hold on to That Feeling": Disciplinary Formations and Asian B-Sides Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Broderick Chow
Abstract: This essay is a personal and self-reflective account of how disciplinary and sub-disciplinary formations operate within the field of theatre and performance studies materially, politically, and economically. Reflecting on the five years since the publication of the author’s Theatre Journal article, “Feeling in Counterpoint” (2018), the article addresses how disciplinary formations work to
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On Inclusion and Resurgence: The State of North American Indigenous Theatre and Performance Scholarship Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bethany Hughes
Abstract: This article follows the structure of a pop song—verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus—to put into relationship scholarship on North American Indigenous theatre and performance, the current state of academia, the politics of Indigeneity, and critiques of recognition and inclusion from Indigenous Studies. Historicizing Indigenous theatre scholarship and production alongside Peter Morin
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Seeking Critical Frameworks for Global Majority Theatre Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anita Gonzalez
Abstract: The essay advocates for expanding theater studies publications to more effectively engage with global majority epistemologies as core methodologies for analyzing theatrical phenomena. Academic theatre classes often incorporate performance studies paradigms, but most theater programs remain centered around practice-based exercises for acting, directing, designing, and producing Eurocentric
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Power and Theory: Structural Racism and Zones of Sanctioned Ignorance Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dorinne Kondo
Abstract: Through a case study of the creative process on the thirtieth anniversary revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum in 2023, this essay argues for centering theories of power in theatre practice as well as scholarship. The limits of mainstream US theatre models manifested in the workings of structural racism and what Gayatri Spivak calls “zones of
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Nonhuman Futures Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Abstract: As a contribution to Theatre Journal’s 75th anniversary issue, this article poses questions and reflections about the inclusion of the more-than-human in theatre and performance studies. Surveying shifts in the field across the past few decades, the essay engages with the complex valences of the terms “human,” “nonhuman,” and “animal” to argue for greater intersectional, interdisciplinary
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Afterword: Performance Studies Reorient Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sean Metzger
Abstract: Drawing on the print contributions to the seventy-fifth anniversary issue of Theatre Journal, this essay argues for a performance studies reorient. Rather than stabilize the field, this gambit attempts to encourage continual disciplinary reinvention that would expand the parameters of critical concern as theatre and performance studies scholars attend to widening geographies, new modes of
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The Burnt City by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jonathan Chambers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Burnt City by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle Jonathan Chambers THE BURNT CITY. Directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle. Punchdrunk, One Cartridge Place, Woolwich, London. March 8, 2023. Over the course of the last twenty years, Punch-drunk has proven itself a producer of immersive theatre par excellence. Under the direction
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1776 (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer A. Low
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: 1776 Jennifer A. Low 1776. Book by Peter Stone. Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. Directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, New York. December 23, 2022. A row of shoes on the lip of an empty stage was all there was for spectators to look at while waiting for
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Some Like It Hot (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Emily G. Furlich
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Some Like It Hot Emily G. Furlich SOME LIKE IT HOT. Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. Music by Marc Shaiman. Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. Directed by Casey Nicholaw. Shubert Theatre, New York. January 19, 2023. Following Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire, Some Like It Hot is the third musical adapted from a man-in-a-dress
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The Porch on Windy Hill (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Heather Grimm
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Porch on Windy Hill Heather Grimm THE PORCH ON WINDY HILL. Written and directed by Sherry Lutken. Northlight Theatre, Skokie, Illinois. May 5, 2023. In spring 2023, Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois produced The Porch On Windy Hill: a new play with old music, written by director Sherry Lutken in collaboration with
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New-Illusion (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kyueun Kim
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: New-Illusion Kyueun Kim NEW-ILLUSION. Written and directed by Okada Toshiki (chelfitsch). Video directed by Yamada Shimpei. Singapore International Festival of Arts, SOTA Studio Theatre, Singapore. June 3–4, 2023. The lonely stage had an electric bass and an amplifier to one side, but otherwise, it was empty. Woman (Shiibashi
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Metamorphosis of a Living Room (Ribingu Rūmu Metamoruflshizu) (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Beri Juraic
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Metamorphosis of a Living Room (Ribingu Rūmu Metamoruflshizu) Beri Juraic METAMORPHOSIS OF A LIVING ROOM (RIBINGU RŪMU METAMORUFLSHIZU). By chelfitsch and Dai Fujikura with Klangforum Wien. Directed by Okada Toshiki. Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam. June 8, 2023. Renowned director and playwright Okada Toshiki
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Prague Quadrennial (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alicia Corts
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Prague Quadrennial Alicia Corts PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL. Multiple venues, Prague. June 8–18, 2023. While the Prague Quadrennial has been billed as a festival of design since its first iteration in 1968, part of its charm lies in how performances are integrated into the festival. The 2023 edition of the PQ—centered around the theme
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Kate (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Daniel Sack
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kate Daniel Sack KATE. By Kate Berlant. Directed by Bo Burnham. Connelly Theater, New York. September 29, 2022. If a tear is, as William Archer wrote in his 1888 treatise against Diderot, the “external, visible, sensible fact” of the “most important emotion” for an actor, then one can understand how an actor’s failure to produce
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Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 James R. Ball III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf James R. Ball III INSTITUTIONAL THEATRICS: PERFORMING ARTS POLICY IN POST-WALL BERLIN. By Brandon Woolf. Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 280. Brandon Woolf’s Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts
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Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini by Yehuda Moraly (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Clare Finburgh Delijani
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini by Yehuda Moraly Clare Finburgh Delijani DREAM PROJECTS IN THEATRE, NOVELS AND FILMS: THE WORKS OF PAUL CLAUDEL, JEAN GENET, AND FEDERICO FELLINI. By Yehuda Moraly, translated by Melanie Florence. Brighton, Chicago, Toronto:
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The Lines Between The Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tyler Graham
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Lines Between The Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment by Bess Rowen Tyler Graham THE LINES BETWEEN THE LINES: HOW STAGE DIRECTIONS AFFECT EMBODIMENT. Bess Rowen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp 248. Samuel Beckett’s 35-second Breath makes it easy to see how stage directions can be seen as constraints
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To Be Nsala's Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze by Chérie N. Rivers (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rachel Kabukala
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: To Be Nsala’s Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze by Chérie N. Rivers Rachel Kabukala TO BE NSALA’S DAUGHTER: DECOMPOSING THE COLONIAL GAZE. Chérie N. Rivers. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 128. To Be Nsala’s Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze is the second book from interdisciplinary scholar Chérie N. Rivers
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Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of Theater by Joseph Cermatori (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 David Krasner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetic of Theater by Joseph Cermatori David Krasner BAROQUE MODERNITY: AN AESTHETIC OF THEATER. By Joseph Cermatori. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2021; 298 pp. In Thornton Wilder’s inaugural 1938 production of Our Town, director Jed Harris staged a moment in the play where over a dozen
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Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks by Catherine E. Walsh (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks by Catherine E. Walsh Maryam Ivette Parhizkar RISING UP, LIVING ON: RE-EXISTENCES, SOWINGS, AND DECOLONIAL CRACKS. By Catherine E. Walsh. On Decoloniality series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 334. Catherine Walsh’s richly braided contribution to
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Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Brynn W. Shiovitz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber Brynn W. Shiovitz MEL BROOKS: DISOBEDIENT JEW. By Jeremy Dauber. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023; pp. 201. It seems fitting that a biography of Mel Brooks would be published the same week that the comedian auteur released History of the World, Part II on Hulu, a sequel
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Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Tyburczy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda Jennifer Tyburczy DISAPPEARING ROOMS: THE HIDDEN THEATERS OF IMMIGRATION LAW. By Michelle Castañeda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 200. Michelle Castañeda’s book Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law is a tour
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Trans Care by Hil Malatino (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dan Paz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Trans Care by Hil Malatino Dan Paz TRANS CARE. By Hil Malatino. Forerunner Series. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020; pp. 79. Trans Care, written in the context of western, queer, trans and non-binary experience, is part of University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners: Ideas First series. These books, short
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Index to Volume 75 Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Index to Volume 75 CONTRIBUTORS’ INDEX ARTICLES Arfara, Katia. A Museum of Human Hunting: Thomas Bellinck’s Speculative Documentary. 277–299. Barclay, Kari. Erotic Returns: Sleeping with the Ancestors in Contemporary Plays about Sexual Violence. 41–59. Bory, Alison and Ariel Nereson. A Set of Questions for a Field in Motion: Susan Leigh
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Four Notes on Six Conversations Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Carla Neuss
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Four Notes on Six Conversations Carla Neuss (bio) In June 2023, I had the unexpected privilege of being able to sit down, in person, with six scholars in our field for a series of open-ended and wide-ranging conversations. The occasion was, nominally, a chance to reflect on the seventy-five years of Theatre Journal’s contribution to theatre
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On Editing, Paying it Forward, and Having Energy: A Conversation with Jean Graham-Jones, Former Editor Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jean Graham-Jones, Carla Neuss
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Editing, Paying it Forward, and Having Energy: A Conversation with Jean Graham-Jones, Former Editor Jean Graham-Jones (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE; it has been edited for clarity and length
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Editorial: Refugee Processing Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial: Refugee Processing1 The back cover of this issue depicts a detail from Dinh Q. Lê’s Adrift in Darkness (2017), which consists of three rock-like sculptures suspended from the ceiling at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, where the artist had a solo exhibition in 2022. The works seemed to float like asteroids, suggesting
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Erratum Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum A regrettable printing error was made in a section heading in Rachel Moss’s Skrzypek as Synecdoche: Polish-Jewishness in Fiddler on the Roof” (Theatre Journal 75.2). On p. 61, the heading should read, “Off the Roof and into the Kitchen.” The press apologizes for the mistake. [End Page 1] Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University
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Unsanctioned Refugee Processing: Maritime Interception, Aesthetics, Hospitality Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Emma Cox
Abstract: The sea is central to constructions of the refugee —maritime passage indelibly linked to political process—even as image-making and narrativization on water are inhibited by the otherness of the pelagic environment. Legally unauthorized maritime transit has informed condemnatory narratives of refugeeness in recent decades, and wealthy nations increasingly rely on extra-territorial and expulsive
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A Museum of Human Hunting: Thomas Bellinck's Speculative Documentary Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Katia Arfara
Abstract: This essay explores the performance series Simple as ABC (2016 - ongoing) by Belgian film and theatre director and activist Thomas Bellinck as an exemplary artistic reflection on border regimes and the technological apparatus of mobility management. Based on extensive research into the most acute forms of human-hunting today, the mechanisms of border control and migration, Bellinck claims
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Channels Through the Humane The Exiled Body in Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sariel Golomb
Abstract: This article examines contemporary choreographer Crystal Pite’s celebrated work Flight Pattern (2017), created for the Royal Ballet, which depicts an unspecified group of refugees as allegory for the “human” condition. In striving to choreograph exile outside of place and time, Pite rewrites the refugee as a purely bodied condition of transience, and thus corporealizes what Alexander Weheliye
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(Not So) Minor Encounters: Little Amal from The Jungle to The Walk Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Suhaila Meera
Abstract: How do we comprehend the scale of contemporary Syrian child displacement, much less represent it theatrically—and ethically? In this essay, I explore how the Good Chance Theatre has continued to try, through the evolving figure of Little Amal, an unaccompanied Syrian girl who appears in two transnational performances, The Jungle (2017) and The Walk (2021). Drawing on interviews with directors
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Waif, Orphan, Refugee: Staging Korean War Reparation in Lloyd Suh's Bina's Six Apples Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Heidi Kim
Abstract: Lloyd Suh’s play for young audiences, Bina’s Six Apples, provides a foundation for a formulation of Korean American refugeetude. The refugee status of Koreans before and during the Korean War was a particularly ill-defined one; from a U.S. perspective, it was a label but not a legal status, and the consequent erasure of this particular aspect of militarism has had lasting effects on the U
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I Will Marry When I Want / Ngaahika Ndeenda by Ngūgī wa Thiong'o and Ngūgī wa Mirii (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Fredrick Mbogo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: I Will Marry When I Want / Ngaahika Ndeenda by Ngūgī wa Thiong’o and Ngūgī wa Mirii Fredrick Mbogo I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT / NGAAHIKA NDEENDA. By Ngūgī wa Thiong’o and Ngūgī wa Mirii. Directed by Stuart Nash. The Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi. May 13, 2022. Perhaps because I Will Marry When I Want is a stage play that carries
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Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rachel Evans
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire Rachel Evans KIMBERLY AKIMBO. Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Music by Jeanine Tesori. Directed by Jessica Stone. Booth Theatre, New York. March 5, 2023. It is not often that playwrights choose to transform their straight plays into musicals themselves. That task is usually
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Stumped by Shomit Dutta (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Annette Balaam
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stumped by Shomit Dutta Annette Balaam STUMPED. By Shomit Dutta. Directed by Guy Unsworth. Original Theatre Online. Live streamed from Lord’s Cricket Ground, St. John’s Wood, London. October 2, 2022. On screen, a box set opened the play slowly spinning on its axis in a void of black space, exposing its sides, roof and base
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John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, and: The Good John Proctor by Talene Monahon (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sean F. Edgecomb
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, and: The Good John Proctor by Talene Monahon Sean F. Edgecomb JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN. By Kimberly Belflower. Directed by Marti Lyons. Studio Theatre, Washington D.C. May 12, 2022. THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR. By Talene Monahon. Directed by Caitlin Sullivan. Bedlam Theatre Company
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Inés De Ulloa by Sergio Rubio (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Victoria Jane Rasbridge
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Inés De Ulloa by Sergio Rubio Victoria Jane Rasbridge INÉS DE ULLOA. By Sergio Rubio. Directed by Pedro Hofhuis. Jóvenes Clásicos, FesTeLõn, The Courtyard Theatre, London. December 20, 2022. Since his first appearance in El burlador de Sevilla (1630), the figure of serial womanizer Don Juan has loomed large in literature.
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Beth Wynstra
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry Beth Wynstra THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW. By Lorraine Hansberry. Directed by Anne Kauffman. Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. February 17, 2023. In Act Two of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Mavis Parodus Bryson (Miriam Silverman)
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Hobollywood by Thinh Nguyen (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Meiling Cheng
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hobollywood by Thinh Nguyen Meiling Cheng HOBOLLYWOOD. By Thinh Nguyen. Curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar. LACE/Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. February 11, 2023. Roughly two decades ago, Grant Kester proposed the term “conversation pieces” to describe a type of ephemeral performance
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Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010–2020 by Aaron C. Thomas Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Ryan Donovan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010–2020 by Aaron C. Thomas Ryan Donovan LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE: BROADWAY MUSICALS AND LGBTQ POLITICS, 2010–2020. By Aaron C. Thomas. London: Routledge, 2023; pp. 183. Does the Broadway musical matter to U.S. American political discourse? If so, how and why? These are central questions
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Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jose Miguel Esteban
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers Jose Miguel Esteban ECO SOMA: PAIN AND JOY IN SPECULATIVE PERFORMANCE ENCOUNTERS. By Petra Kuppers. Art After Nature series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022; pp. 269. More than a mere theoretical engagement with somatic performance
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Death's Futurity: The Visual Life Of Black Power by Sampada Aranke (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Les Gray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life Of Black Power by Sampada Aranke Les Gray DEATH’S FUTURITY: THE VISUAL LIFE OF BLACK POWER. By Sampada Aranke. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023; pp. 186 Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power closely reads a group of cultural objects and ephemera circulating
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Earthworks Rising: Mound Building In Native Literature And Arts by Chadwick Allen (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lilian Mengesha
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Earthworks Rising: Mound Building In Native Literature And Arts by Chadwick Allen Lilian Mengesha EARTHWORKS RISING: MOUND BUILDING IN NATIVE LITERATURE AND ARTS. By Chadwick Allen. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2022; pp. 395. Chadwick Allen’s anticipated monograph is a rigorous and well-researched
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Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture by Cynthia J. Becker (review) Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Cleo Jay
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture by Cynthia J. Becker Cleo Jay BLACKNESS IN MOROCCO: GNAWA IDENTITY THROUGH MUSIC AND VISUAL CULTURE. Cynthia J. Becker. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020; 304 pp. Since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, North Africa has been the topic of
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"Drifting in this Dark Space": A Conversation with Artist Dinh Q. Lê Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sean Metzger, Dinh Q. Lê
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Drifting in this Dark Space”A Conversation with Artist Dinh Q. Lê Sean Metzger (bio) and Dinh Q. Lê Dinh Q. Lê’s art confronts viewers not only with the presence and memory of refugees, but also the processes of visualization that render such a category legible. Deftly moving between and combining craft, photography, and video, Lê’s body
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Holding the Memory and Asking the Hard Questions: An Interview with Katie Ka Vang, May Lee-Yang, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Josephine Lee, May Lee-Yang, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Katie Ka Vang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Holding the Memory and Asking the Hard Questions: An Interview with Katie Ka Vang, May Lee-Yang, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay Josephine Lee (bio), May Lee-Yang (bio), Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay (bio), and Katie Ka Vang (bio) Katie Ka Vang, May Lee-Yang, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay are performers, writers, and activists
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Alongside and Behind the Community: TeAda's Decolonial Ensemble Theater Practice Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Leilani Chan, Ova Saopeng
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Alongside and Behind the Community: TeAda’s Decolonial Ensemble Theater Practice1 Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (bio), Leilani Chan (bio), and Ova Saopeng (bio) This interview with TeAda Productions highlights the nearly three-decade-old inter/multidisciplinary theater organization’s commitment to community-based theater work dedicated to telling
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Editorial Comment: Archives and Afterlives Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Laura Edmondson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment:Archives and Afterlives Laura Edmondson Archives destabilize and proliferate in the context of performance. At the Mid-America Theatre Conference held in Minneapolis last March, I attended several presentations that expanded understandings of the archive through challenging distinctions between contexts and texts, texts
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Un Llanto Colectivo: A PerformaProtesta Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Jade Power-Sotomayo
Abstracts: This essay is an examination of the llanto (wail) as political performance praxis through documenting and reflecting on the collective work of Cherríe Moraga, Celia Herrera Rodríguez and approximately twenty-five artists to stage a PerformaProtesta," Un llanto colectivo, at San Diego immigrant detention centers following the separation of migrant families during the summer of 2018. As such
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Skrzypek as Synecdoche: Polish-Jewishness in Fiddler on the Roof Theatre Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Rachel Merrill Moss
Abstracts: From a theatre's protest against losing their space, to a themed restaurant, to a shabbat ceremony, Skrzypek na dachu (Fiddler on the Roof) appears in Poland in unexpected places. This essay explores the performance's many iterations from its prewar context as Tevye the Dairyman, to the postwar translation of the American musical in the turbulent early 1980s, to Anatewka Restaurant established