Volume 60 Issue 4

Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo’s acclaimed 2012 work of narrative non-fiction, tells the story of the slum-dwellers of Annawadi, an “undercity” in the shadow of Mumbai’s glittering international airport. David Hare’s 2014 adaptation of Boo’s ...

Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House is a study in transformation. Its protagonist, Lane, and her sister, Virginia, share a deep attachment to orderliness, which is signalled on stage by their ties to neatly organized everyday objects. This attachment masks a ...

Informed by recent French theories on capitalism and labour, this essay builds on the premise that French intellectuals – artists and dramatists as well as economists – are concerned about the sociocultural and intellectual effects of the culture of “...

What has perplexed critics and audiences about Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (2009) – its seemingly apolitical and ruminative second act – in fact signals why the play is rightful heir to an earlier generation of Broadway productions with ...

From Scenarios to Networks explores how Actor Network Theory reframes colonial Mexican intercultural performances as relationships between objects, spaces, and persons rather than as representations of already existing identities in conflict. This book ...

Staging Chinese Revolution offers a comprehensive study of Chinese revolutionary propagandist film, television, and theatre, from the 1960s to the 2010s, on subjects related to Communist Party history, founding fathers, and revolutionary ideology. Drawing ...

A Global Doll’s House provides a worthy model of how digital humanities techniques can help illuminate the performance and adaptation history of a single drama. Its methodological clarity and thoughtful use of mapping will be helpful to scholars ...

Alienation Effects is a rich and versatile, compellingly written volume bringing together insights from history, politics, economics, performance, art, and philosophy. The book will be useful for both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in ...

A survey of post-1989 Polish performance practices framed within emancipatory discourses of identity politics. Informative and richly documented, After ‘89 will appeal to researchers and students in theatre and performance studies, central and eastern ...

Performing Whitely in the Postcolony is an informative study of the many ways in which white Afrikaners in South Africa have performed whiteness in the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book offers insightful analyses of pageants, museum sites, film, ...

Rabey’s book displays an impressive erudition and offers multiple contributions to the ways in which we might think about time, performance, and the relationships between the two. Like its subject, the book is sometimes disjointed and dissipative, but it ...

This book is a new examination of the Irish Dramatic Revival from 1899 to 1939, offering close critical readings of the plays of the major dramatists of the movement. Key characteristics and themes of the movement are identified and contextualized in ...