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If you call for papers, the papers call back at you: some thoughts on CfP and selection processes Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Tobi Poster-Su
In her ‘Manifesto to Decentre Theatre and Performance Studies’ (2021), Swati Arora explores the intangible and invisible borders that function to exclude certain people and knowledges, usually inde...
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Irish rebellion in-yer-face or consigned to history: Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in 2016 Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Eglantina Remport
This article considers two revisions of Seán O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars (1926) for the 2016 centenary commemoration of the 1916 Rising in Dublin: Sean Holmes’s robust new version stage...
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Divorced, beheaded, defied: solidarity in individual and collective herstories in SIX the Musical (2017) Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Leah Everquill
Recent television shows and specials, films, and biographical musicals such as SIX the Musical (2017), signal an ongoing preoccupation with the British monarchy, particularly as it intersects with ...
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Dance teaching in HE: further thoughts on the possibilities of artistic citizenship for decolonial practice Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 ‘Funmi Adewole Elliott
Building on my argument in a recently published book chapter, ‘Toward Decoloniality and Artistic Citizenship’ (2023), this article discusses how the concept of artistic citizenship could create a c...
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Decolonisation and contemporary dance Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Alethia Antonia
Thinking about decolonisation and solidarity within the context of contemporary dance, if we consider decolonising and self-authoring as a process of self-actualisation, what role can peer and inst...
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Decolonisation and solidarity roundtable discussion Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 ‘ Funmi Adewole Elliott, Alethia Antonia, Ramsay Burt, Tobi Poster-Su, Víctor Ladrón de Guevara, Thea Stanton, Negar Tahsili
‘Funmi Adewole Elliott, Alethia Antonia, Ramsay Burt, Tobi Poster-Su, Thea Stanton, and Negar Tahsili were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonisation and Solidarity’, chai...
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Sites of multiplicity: anarchiving, feminism, and performance Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Hannah Waters
Jean Spencer (1942–1998) was an artist working in the late constructivist period in the UK, making painting and relief works characterised by geometric precision, sequential change, and, later, det...
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Am I really the only one dancing? Seeking solidarity in wit(h)ness Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Marguerite Galizia
This performative paper interweaves contextual and theoretical discourse alongside the poetic, reflective text, to capture what Gherardi et al describe as the ‘sociomaterial traces’ of a practice o...
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Hyper-femininity as radical resistance: re-envisaging the starlet through a feminist practice of solidarity in It’s Sophie! (2018) Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Sophie Swoffer
This article challenges the often-derided role of the young and apparently naive ‘starlet’ figure in film and stage performance. My engagement with the concept of the starlet originates from Laura ...
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Physical solidarity as feeling the feeling Studies in Theatre and Performance (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Ramsay Burt
This provocation reflects on the experience of taking a class in contemporary African dance in Senegal, arguing that it represents a physicalisation of solidarity. The class included dance students...
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Editorial Comment Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ariel Nereson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Comment Ariel Nereson The March 2024 issue of Theatre Journal comes on the heels of the landmark seventy-fifth anniversary issue (December 2023, coedited by Laura Edmondson and Sean Metzger) and is my first issue as coeditor. To say that I sense the weight of the journal’s history as I step into this role is an understatement
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Democracy, "Democracy (Reprise)," and the Asian American Ambivalence of Soft Power Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Donatella Galella
Abstract: In Soft Power (2019), David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori deconstruct and demonstrate the affective power of American musicals by reversing The King and I (1951). Soft Power satirizes democracy, white supremacy, and gun violence with whiteface, meta-propaganda, and a sweeping Broadway-style score. In the torch song “Democracy” and its reprise, the artists articulate Asian American ambivalence
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Performing Sphagnum: Ecological Ethics in Cryptic's Below the Blanket Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Angenette Spalink
Abstract: Below the Blanket (2019), a performance installation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, staged the enmeshed multispecies relationships present in the Flow Country, the largest blanket bog system in the world. While Below the Blanket represented the Flow Country through various artistic mediums, the physical matter—the sphagnum and peat mosses—that comprises the bog was conspicuously absent
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How to Be Human in Drone Culture: In Search of a Pharmacological Recompense through Performance Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Eirini Nedelkopoulou
Abstract: This article examines how performance represents, reflects on, and reimagines the function of technology in drone culture. From a pharmaco-phenomenological angle, I analyze drone art practices, focusing on how drone performances invite audiences to feel/make their way through a networked reality. I highlight human tension, vulnerability, and precarity in their digital thrownness in conditions
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Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Weston Twardowski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza Weston Twardowski TORERA. By Monet Hurst-Mendoza. Directed and choreographed by Tatiana Pandiani. Alley Theatre, Houston. May 17, 2023. When Elena María Ramírez (Jacqueline Guillén) and Tanok Cárdenas (Jesse Castellanos) ran onto the stage at the opening of Torera, the Alley Theatre’s world premiere
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The Headlands by Christopher Chen (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Janine Sun Rogers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Headlands by Christopher Chen Janine Sun Rogers THE HEADLANDS. By Christopher Chen. Directed by Pam MacKinnon. American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco. March 4, 2023. Set between fog-shrouded locales on either end of the Golden Gate Bridge, Christopher Chen’s The Headlands contends with how the precarities of memory
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Miss Saigon by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Jayoon Byeon, Jodie Passey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Miss Saigon by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg Jayoon Byeon and Jodie Passey MISS SAIGON. Book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. Directed by Robert Hastie and Anthony Lau. Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK. August 2, 2023
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Shane by Karen Zacarías (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Robert Hubbard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shane by Karen Zacarías Robert Hubbard SHANE. By Karen Zacarías. Adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer. Directed by Blake Robison. Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis. July 29, 2023. Revising beloved classics to adjust for changing cultural mores may inspire antipathy from audience members nostalgically invested in the original
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Fat Ham by James Ijames, and: White Girl in Danger by Michael R. Jackson (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kevin Byrne
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fat Ham by James Ijames, and: White Girl in Danger by Michael R. Jackson Kevin Byrne FAT HAM. By James Ijames. Directed by Saheem Ali. American Airlines Theatre, New York. May 13, 2023. WHITE GIRL IN DANGER. Book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Vineyard Theatre, New York. May 13, 2023
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Mahabharata by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stephen Low
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mahabharata by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes Stephen Low MAHABHARATA. Written and adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes. Directed by Ravi Jain. Shaw Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. March 26, 2023. The Mahabharata is an ancient Sanskrit epic poem that is rarely performed on contemporary stages. Toronto’s
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The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Carla Neuss
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith Carla Neuss THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN. By Zadie Smith. Directed by Indhu Rubasingham. Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. April 16, 2023. Zadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden, which premiered in November 2021 at London’s Kiln Theatre, transposes Chaucer’s (in)famous Wife of Bath from The Canterbury
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76th Festival D'avignon (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ljubiša Matić
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: 76th Festival D’avignon Ljubiša Matić 76TH FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON. Palais des Papes and various other venues, Avignon, France. July 7–26, 2022. After the collective trauma that made the live (co-) presence of people in public irrelevant, or even dangerous, the breath of a certain freedom soared afresh along the ramparts of Avignon
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Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ryan McKinney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber Ryan McKinney EVITA. Book and lyrics by Tim Rice. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Directed by Sammi Cannold. American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 16, 2023. As audience members settled into their seats for the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Evita, a white, shimmering
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Parade by Alfred Uhry (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 I. B. Hopkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Parade by Alfred Uhry I. B. Hopkins PARADE. Book by Alfred Uhry. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Directed by Michael Arden. New York City Center, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York. May 3, 2023. Time moves peculiarly in Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s sobering Parade, which was revived on Broadway in 2023 for
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Kpop by Jason Kim (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Kyungjin Jo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kpop by Jason Kim Kyungjin Jo KPOP. Book by Jason Kim. Music and lyrics by Helen Park and Max Vernon. Directed by Teddy Bergman. Circle in the Square Theatre, New York. November 27, 2022. When KPOP opened in 2017 as an immersive off Broadway production, curious audience members moved from room to room in a two-story building
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Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Isabel Stuart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo Isabel Stuart STARS: AN AFROFUTURIST SPACE ODYSSEY. By Mojisola Adebayo. Directed by Gail Babb and S. Ama Wray. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. May 3, 2023. STARS, a play by Mojisola Adebayo, centers around an older Black woman, Mrs, who has spent her life searching
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Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces by Joanne Tompkins (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Sarah Bay-Cheng
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance Spaces by Joanne Tompkins Sarah Bay-Cheng VISUALISING LOST THEATRES: VIRTUAL PRAXIS AND THE RECOVERY OF PERFORMANCE SPACES. By Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, and Liyang Xia. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America From The Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Cheryl Black
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America From The Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason Cheryl Black MACBETH IN HARLEM: BLACK THEATER IN AMERICA FROM THE BEGINNING TO RAISIN IN THE SUN. By Clifford Mason. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020; pp. 234. As indicated by its subtitle, Clifford Mason’s
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The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy by Juliet Guzzetta (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stefano Boselli
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy by Juliet Guzzetta Stefano Boselli THE THEATER OF NARRATION: FROM THE PERIPHERIES OF HISTORY TO THE MAIN STAGES OF ITALY. By Juliet Guzzetta. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 239, 21 illustrations. Despite its minimalist
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Mussolini's Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics by Patricia Gaborik (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alessandro Clericuzio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics by Patricia Gaborik Alessandro Clericuzio MUSSOLINI’S THEATRE: FASCIST EXPERIMENTS IN ART AND POLITICS. By Patricia Gaborik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. 312. While much has been written about fascism and cinema, architecture, and literature,
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Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global by Karen Fricker (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Aleksandar Dundjerovic
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Robert Lepage’s Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global by Karen Fricker Aleksandar Dundjerovic ROBERT LEPAGE’S ORIGINAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS: MAKING THEATRE GLOBAL. By Karen Fricker. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 272. It has been twenty-seven years since Remy Charest’s book of interviews with Robert
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Theatre in Market Economies by Michael McKinnie (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alex Ferrone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatre in Market Economies by Michael McKinnie Alex Ferrone THEATRE IN MARKET ECONOMIES. By Michael McKinnie. Theatre and Performance Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. 203. In his lucid and insightful book Theatre in Market Economies, Michael McKinnie pulls no punches, something immediately evident
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Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Alisa Ballard Lin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova Alisa Ballard Lin REDISCOVERING STANISLAVSKY. By Maria Shevtsova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. 304. English-language writings on the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky have been abundant ever since the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) toured the United States a century
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Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Sandra M. Mayo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala Sandra M. Mayo BLACK THEATER, CITY LIFE: AFRICAN AMERICAN ART INSTITUTIONS AND URBAN CULTURAL ECOLOGIES. By Macelle Mahala. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022; pp. 270. Theatre historian and educator Macelle
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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Elizabeth A. Osborne
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett Elizabeth A. Osborne RADICAL BLACK THEATRE IN THE NEW DEAL. By Kate Dossett. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020; pp. 338. Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal joins
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Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Takeo Rivera
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang Takeo Rivera Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability. By Vivian L. Huang. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022; pp. 240. From the foundations laid by scholars like Josephine Lee, Karen Shimakawa, Esther Kim Lee, Joshua
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Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Christopher Swift
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama by Daisy Black Christopher Swift Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism And Temporality In Medieval Biblical Drama. By Daisy Black. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020; pp. 248. On the subject of late medieval English plays, Daisy Black’s Play
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At The Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma (review) Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Xueli Wang
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: At The Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma Xueli Wang AT THE EDGES OF SLEEP: MOVING IMAGES AND SOMNOLENT SPECTATORS. By Jean Ma. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022; pp. 209. Watching a film together is a ritual of intimacy, especially if we fall asleep. In her book At the Edges of Sleep:
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Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Theatre Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Prateek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Prateek (bio) This essay is meant to serve as a compendium to my documentary, Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions, which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJ3Mnea0MU. The film highlights the diversity of the folk performance tradition of Ramman
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Jacques Copeau's “The Spirit in the Little Theatre”: Contexts and Texts Theatre Survey (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 J. Ellen Gainor, John Un
The story of influential French stage director Jacques Copeau's 1917–19 residency in New York City was documented at the time by Copeau himself and subsequently analyzed by Copeau scholars.1 Copeau (1879–1949) is remembered today for his innovative, experimental theatre work in the early twentieth century; he developed core practices that became foundational for modernist stage artistry, including
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The Spirit in the Little Theatre (1917) Theatre Survey (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Jacques Copeau
Ladies and Gentlemen, [It] may be that never before in my life have I had to meet such a trial as I am undergoing today.
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Prologue Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Elizabeth R. Wright
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Prologue Elizabeth R. Wright THIS DOUBLE ISSUE OF VOLUME 74 of the Bulletin of the Comediantes, featuring Nicholas R. Jones as guest editor, emerged from the colloquium devoted to Recovering Black Performance in Early Modern Iberia, held at Yale University on 29–30 April 2022. We are grateful to Jesús Velasco, chair of the Department of
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Guest Editor Introduction: On Recovery and Reparation Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Nicholas R. Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Guest Editor IntroductionOn Recovery and Reparation Nicholas R. Jones FOLLOWING IN THE TRADITION of ethnologist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, I have always been keenly aware of and compelled by—perhaps blindly, to a fault—the richness of black culture and its materiality, speech acts, and verve. Hurston comments on this in her oft-cited
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James A. Parr, sin par (1936–2022): Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes 1973–98 PART I Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sharon D. Voros
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: James A. Parr, sin par (1936–2022)Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes 1973–98 PART I Sharon D. Voros WHILE LOOKING OVER THE BOOKS I had in my library from Jim Parr (1936–2022), I came across one that he had given me, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects. Form and Tradition in Spanish Literature, 1330–1630. He handwrote this dedication:
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James A. Parr, sin par (1936–2022): Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes 1973–98 PART II Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Edward H. Friedman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: James A. Parr, sin par (1936–2022)Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes 1973–98 PART II Edward H. Friedman I ALWAYS WILL CHERISH MY CONTACT with James Parr. He was a revered colleague, mentor, and friend for over forty-five years. As I was completing my graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, I submitted an essay on Calderón's El mayor
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Contrarrelatos performativos para hablar en clase sobre la historia racial de España Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Manuel Olmedo Gobante
Abstract: This note on teaching explores counter-storytelling, a practice that gives voice to marginalized communities and confronts the narratives of benevolent meritocracy and color-blind power dynamics that have long shaped the hierarchies, hiring practices, and opportunities for advancement within institutions. I provide an experiential reflection on my use of counter-storytelling to teach early
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An Early Modern Audience in the Classroom: Metatheater, Religion, Race Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Seth Kimmel
Abstract: Emphasizing the role of audiences in shaping the meaning and social function of performance, this essay presents some suggestions for deepening the discussion of race in our undergraduate classes on "Golden Age" theater. These suggestions include enticing students with recognizable names and accessible texts—Cervantes's El retablo de las maravillas is one of my choices—and then nudging them
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Listening to Black Voices, or Listening to Juana Esperanza de San Alberto's Listening Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Cesar D. Favila
Abstract: The roundtable "Listening for Black Voices: A Conversation on Musicology Today" for the colloquium devoted to "Recovering Black Performance in Early Modern Iberia" invites a reflection on silence and listening, especially when attending to the life of New Spain's only known Black nun, Juana Esperanza de San Alberto (?–1679).
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Spatial Imaginaries and Performance of the Villancico de Negro Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Bernard Gordillo Brockmann
Abstract: This essay is a reflection on the performance of the villancico de negro in an early modern Ibero-American context as well as on the musical subgenre's contested meaning in present-day concert programs. The first part examines the coro, a privileged space within a viceregal cathedral where ecclesiastical ritual devotion enacted a collective sensorial experience. This was a site where male
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Accounting for Black Insurgencies in Los empeños de una casa by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Nicole Delia Legnani
Abstract: I examine the first performance of Los empeños de una casa in the context of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's experiences with finance and investment, arguing the centrality of the enslaved Juana de San José to her namesake's engagement with concepts of debt, worth, and price. I analyze these entanglements by considering economic historians' discussions of accounting's role in the formation of
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"¡A ver la comeria nueva / que la negla representa!": Villancicos de negros en la Bogotá virreinal Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sebastián León
Abstract: Sung inside and beyond the confines of cathedrals during the principal religious celebrations, the musical-poetic genre of the villancico took on a special vibrancy in the viceregal city of Santafé (today, Bogotá, Colombia) from the later sixteenth century onward. The singers themselves not only played (sung) the roles of angels and shepherds, but also of others, often adapted from stock
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Afrodescendientes que hablan quechua: Risa, agencia y resistencia en dos entremeses del convento de Santa Teresa (Villa Imperial de Potosí) Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo
Abstract: The Entremés de los compadres en celebridad del nacimiento del niño Dios and the Entremés gracioso—short comic pieces from the eighteenth century preserved in manuscripts from the Convent of Santa Teresa, Villa Imperial de Potosí (present-day Bolivia)—invite scrutiny of the comic characterization of the Black- and Africandescendant populations in the Andes region during the later colonial
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Whiteface versus Black Performance: Accounts of Black and Afro-descendant Performers in Portuguese America Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Mariana Mayor
Abstract: This study of theatrical performance in Portuguese America examines the prevalence of Black and African descendant performers onstage, whether enslaved or free. On the one hand, I consider the artistic implications of these performers' prominence in terms of how their performances fused European theatrical elements, for instance, with plays being staged in opera houses and featuring works
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De la invisibilidad a la especulación crítica: Un esgrimista y poeta negro en el inédito Entremés segundo del negro Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Diana Berruezo-Sánchez
Abstract: This study examines and recontextualizes the anonymous Entremés segundo del negro, whose Black protagonist is a courageous swordsman and a poet skilled in sonnet writing. Comic intrigue focuses on the marriage his enslavers arrange to Francisca, a Black woman. To date, scholars have relegated this entremés to secondary importance by contemplating it as a sequel to another entremés, Luis Quiñones
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Silencio de reyes negros: La Comedia Trofea de Torres Naharro y la cartografía de la colonización africana Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Julio Vélez-Sainz
Abstract: This article considers how Bartolomé de Torres Naharro's Comedia Trofea (1517) represents the process of global colonization of the African and Southeast Asian coasts initiated with the Portuguese imperial expansion of the mid- to late fifteenth century. This drama, in essence, maps an emerging empire, highlighting key protagonists and places. Analysis here concentrates on the drama's parade
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"La variedad de los exemplos" and "la verdad de la estampa": Race and Exemplarity in Virtudes vencen señales Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Abstract: Drawing from critical race theorists and focusing on premodern ideas of race, inheritance, and hereditary imprinting, this essay explores the alternative possibilities for governance suggested by Luis Vélez de Guevara in Virtudes vencen señales through his conceptualization of race, inherited traits, gender, and exemplarity. As the play's semiotic argument is anticipated by its title, an
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Branding, Bondage, and Lope's Typeface Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 John Slater
Abstract: In plays such as Los melindres de Belisa, Lope de Vega's characters pretend to be enslaved people who have been branded on the face. Their cosmetic brands or fingidos hierros act as signs within a system of figuration I call typeface. In Lope's typeface plays, hierros are removed easily but are undetectable as fake. These simulated brandings do not disfigure the characters pretending to be
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Queering El valiente negro en Flandes Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Baltasar Fra-Molinero
Abstract: Andrés de Claramonte's El valiente negro en Flandes (ca. 1620) reframes the representation of Blackness in Spain, presenting the possibility for Black people to reproduce themselves in freedom. This essay, through a reading of Frantz Fanon, addresses how, in Juan de Mérida's journey to overcome the social inferiority of his Blackness, he faces the threat of sodomy. Sodomy conjures the Black
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White Faces, Black Masks: The Racial Shimmer of Morisco and Sub-Saharan Slaveries in Lope de Vega's Los melindres de Belisa Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Zainab Cheema
Abstract: This essay examines how Lope de Vega's Los melindres de Belisa, a comedia urbana composed circa 1608, represents the intersection of different types of slavery in Habsburg Spain. This play is especially pertinent to these questions as its composition coincided with the intense debates that culminated in Philip III's Order of the Expulsion of the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula (1609)
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The Mandinga Experience: Illusion and Proof in the Inquisition Case of Patrício de Andrade, 1690 Bulletin of the Comediantes Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Lexie Cook
Abstract: In 1690, Capeverdean freedman and servant Patrício de Andrade was sentenced to exile by the Portuguese Inquisition for putting on performances of bodily invulnerability so convincing that no one could believe he had not made a pact with the devil. These performances, which he called experiências (from experientia meaning both experience and experiment), had a purpose: to demonstrate the protective