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This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this book engages audiences with new research on contemporary and classic drama, performance studies, scenic design and adaptation theory in nine scholarly essays, two event transcripts and six book reviews. This year's highlights include an interview with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and a roundtable discussion on the sixtieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 縱ii
Preface �BR>
A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Baron Kelly) �BR>
A Raisin in the Sun at 60: A Conversation (Teresa Gilliams, Nathaniel G. Nesmith, Janna Segal, Baron Kelly and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) �
Radical Resurrections: A Performance History of John Brown's
Body (Victoria Lynn Scrimer) �
Deep When: A Basic Design Philosophy for Addressing Holidays
in Historical Dramas (Michael Schweikardt) �
Uncanniness and Alienation in Lisa D'Amour's Detroit and
Airline Highway (M. Scott Phillips)�
Precious Resources: Cultural Archiving in the Post-Apocalyptic
Worlds of Mr. Burns and Station Eleven (Paul D. Reich) �
Past the Lyrical: Mythographic Metatheatre in Marina Carr's
Phaedra Backwards (Phillip Zapkin) �3
Infidelity, Adaptation, and Textuality: Directing Late Medieval
and Early Modern French Farce (Scott D. Taylor) �0
Rectories Meet "One-Hour" Rooms: Williams on Summery and
Eccentric Loves (Jeffrey B. Loomis) �8
A Portrait of the Krapp as a Young[er] Man: Michael Laurence's
Krapp, 39 delete(William Hutchings) �1
Waiting for Rothko (Doug Phillips) �4
Review of Literature: Selected Books
Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Doug Phillips) �9
Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero and Chantal Rodriguez, eds.
Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater
delete(Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon) �3
Lopamudra Basu. Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others
After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity (Mahwash Shoaib) �7
Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, eds. Performing the Progressive
Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Patrick Midgley) �0
Selby Wynn Schwartz. The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their
Afterlives (Alicia M. Goodman) �4
David Palmer, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama �(Melissa Rynn Porterfield) �7
Index �1
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.
