Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to
theatre and performance. It is a brilliantly clear and readable examination of current …

This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation
of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue …

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian
performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a …

Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman
asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America …

W5TT'rhen people speak of nudity in theatrical performance, they tend to ref to actions in
which actors expose their genital organs to the audience. Even to an entirely female …

Scholars have maintained that Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine unites Brechtian and
deconstructive strategies in a dramatic form that subverts traditional representations of …

The Feminist Spectator as Critic studied the texts of public culture, from plays in performance
(that is, performance texts rather than written texts) to the extra-textual cultural apparatus that …

In Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh dance, the materiality of the body was expressed in opposition to
the textually based modern Japanese drama and idealist forms of contemporary dance …

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 …

Dramatic art is a potent instructional medium for developing and refining moral
consciousness and for enhancing sensitive discrimination and reflection of those …