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The seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this volume includes new research on contemporary plays by Anne Washburn, Will Arbery, Matthew Lopez, Anna Deveare Smith and Qui Nguyen.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
A Conversation with Anne Washburn
Laura Snyder
"Shakespeare's #MeToo Play"? Shakespeare and Sexual Politics on the Contemporary Stage
Lee Conderacci
The Embodied Cartoon: The Move Toward Universal in Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play
Ian Downes
The Play in the Bubble: Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Political Isolation in the Time of Covid
Bess Rowen
"It takes a lot of time": Immediacy, Crisis, and the Narrativity of Health in Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy
Jeffrey M. Brown
Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance: A Queer Adaptation of Forster's Howards End
David Pellegrini
Rap Battles with David Henry Hwang: The Playwright's Voice in Qui Nguyen's The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent
Dan Bacalzo
Including the Excluded: Dramatizing Historical Struggle Narratives Reveals Science's Hidden Figures
Denise Gillman, Danielle Hartman,
and Shannon McNeely
A Distant Princess and a Mystic's Well: Forerunners of Cyrano's Tragicomedy
Jeffrey B. Loomis
An Actress Prepares: How Typecasting for Women in Theatre Perpetuates Cycles of Trauma
Sarah Elizabeth Keyes
Power Dynamics in Theatre Education: How Classroom Practices Act as Psychological Grooming for Damaging Systems in Professional Theatre
Hilary M.K. Moore
The Body Electric: Using Neuroscience and Theater to Reclaim Empathy in the Twenty-First Century
Tracy Bersley
Review of Literature: Selected Books
Kevin Winkler. Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
Jay Malarcher
Henry Schvey. Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams
Benjamin P. Stanford
Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir, eds. Performance in a Pandemic
Maria-Elena Doyle
Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens. Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube
Verna A. Foster
Chantal Bilodeau and Thomas Peterson, eds. Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis
Ben Stasny
Anne Bogart. The Art of Resonance
Thomas L. Rothacker
Miriam M. Chirico and Kelly Younger, eds. How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays
Deana Nichols
Index
About the author
Amy Muse is a professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has written a book on Sarah Ruhl as well as essays on drama, intimacy, and travel.
Summary
The seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this volume includes new research on contemporary plays by Anne Washburn, Will Arbery, Matthew Lopez, Anna Deveare Smith and Qui Nguyen.
