Volume 62 Issue 3

This essay examines Dylan Thomas’s 1954 play Under Milk Wood in the context of the BBC Third Programme, the “high culture” station founded in the hopes that difficult art might improve public sentiment and intellectual health. Through the artworks ...

Emphasis on the political activism of the Black Theatre Movement has obfuscated its investment in contemplation and interiority. Ed Bullins’s avant-garde dramatic texts – particularly The Theme Is Blackness (1966) and A Short Play for a Small Theater (...

This article analyses the significance and reception of Albert Camus’s theatre in Spain under the Franco dictatorship (1939–75), which differed from that in France and elsewhere. The state censorship files at the Archivo General de la Administración in ...

M. NourbeSe Philip’s Coups and Calypsos foregrounds a relationship between an Afro-Caribbean woman and an Indo- Caribbean man in a way that shifts the theatrical gaze away from European imperialism and toward a dialogue about coloniality within and across ...

This article explores the central role of religion in Gertrude Stein’s 1938 libretto, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Relative to other modern Faust plays, Stein emphasizes the religious character of pre-modern life, demonstrating how it is entangled ...

Through case studies ranging from avant-garde visual and installation art to televised popular culture and religious testimonies, Abject Performances argues that, in contrast to art that supports inspirational Latinx sociopolitical movements in search of ...

In Staged, Minou Arjomand studies post-World War II trials and trial plays “to uncover how the practice of aesthetic judgment and the institutions in which such judgment takes place might create publics” (15). Theatre allows people to judge in groups ...

An appreciation of Harold Pinter that looks beyond the plays to consider Pinter’s relationships, interests and activities, and artistic tastes and influences. It is aimed at enthusiasts, scholars – students, instructors, and researchers – and non-experts. ...

Angela Marino’s Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela makes a seminal contribution to understanding the complex synergies between performance and populism as they intersect with discourses of power, race, religion, and class ...

Derek Miller’s study examines how performances of drama and music became objects of copyright protection between 1770 and 1911. Copyright and the Value of Performance will be important for literary and performance historians for its account of changing ...

Noe Montez’s Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina considers how, in the decades following Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–83), known as the Process of National Reorganization, the theatre, in collaboration ...

As the first sustained examination of the Harlem-based American Negro Theatre (active from 1939–49), this book offers thoughtful analysis and provides a provocative foundation for future research. Shandell examines the ideological tensions at the company’...

Defiant Indigeneity is a compelling illumination of contemporary performances that defy and resist settler-colonial politics and their appropriation of aloha as a performance of acquiescence. Through her analysis of Native Hawaiian performances, Teves ...