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Informationen zum Autor Kiki Gounaridou teaches theatre history and theory in the Department of Theatre at Smith College. She has published articles, books, and reviews on theatre. An award-winning theatre director, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Klappentext Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 34th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference held in Los Angeles in 2010. Topics covered include metatheatrical experiments and adaptations of Greek tragedy, early Soviet orientalist plays, the working class on the 1920s Broadway stage, Tennessee Williams's grandfather as character model, psychotherapy on stage, and African American musicals, among other topics. Reviews of eight selected books are also included. Zusammenfassung This is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. Topics covered in this edition include metatheatrical experiments and adaptations of Greek tragedy! early Soviet orientalist plays! the working class on the 1920s Broadway stage! Tennessee Williams's grandfather as character model! psychotherapy on stage! and African-American musicals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Metatheatre and Metaphysics in Two Late Greek Tragedies (Francis M. Dunn)2. Manipulating Memory: An Examination of the Ghost Road Company's Ensemble- Devised Adaptation of The Oresteia (Katharine Noon)3. Romantic Male Role Types: Kabuki's Nimaime and the Innamorato of Commedia dell'Arte (Katherine Saltzman- Li)4. Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretyakov'sRoar, China! and Soviet Orientalist Discourse(Robert Crane)5. Staging the Public Sphere: Karl Kraus and Romain Rolland's Critical Theatre in World War I (Christa Zorn)6. No Kick Coming: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W. in Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted (Michael Schwartz)7. "Gramps, Shush the Preaching": Family Memories in The Night of the Iguana ( Jeffrey B. Loomis)8. Truth Drugs and Hothouse Flowers: Metatheatre and the Mid-century Psychotherapy Play (Ariel Watson)9. He Said; She Said: Reversing Roles by Gender in Oleanna (Ann M. Shanahan)10. Coontown: Utopian Longing and Reification in Black Suburbia (Courtney R. Wilkes)11. Nostalgia, Irony, and the Re- Emergence of the Reified American Indian Other in August: Osage County (Courtney Elkin Mohler)12. Plagues and Performance: Broadway Bares as Danse Macabre (Virginia Anderson)13. Acting, Science, and Gender: A Review Essay (Kiki Gounaridou)Review of Literature: Selected BooksE. Teresa Choate. Electra USA: American Stagings of Sophocles' Tragedy (Amanda Wrigley)Karelisa V. Hartigan. Performance and Cure: Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America (Rush Rehm)Emily C. Bartels. Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello ( Janna Segal)Jane Goodall. Stage Presence (Kimberly Jannarone)Heather S. Nathans. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (Dorothy Chansky)Philip C. Kolin, ed. The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights (David Pellegrini)James R. Brandon. Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931-1945 (Yoshiko Fukushima)S.E. Gontarski, ed. A Companion to Samuel Beckett (Katherine Weiss)Index ...
