Text & Presentation, 2006: (3 The Comparative Drama Conference Series)

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 30th annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Beckett, Brecht, Goethe, Tom Stoppard, dance performance, staged violence, the Comedie Francaise, and Greek and Japanese drama. Reviews of selected books are also included.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments       Preface      1. Post-Beckett Theatre      2. Saving Your Breath—And Beckett’s Too      3. New Plots and Playful Schemes: Shukô in Raguko, Japanese Comic Storytelling      4. Iphigenie’s Power in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris      5. Mabou Mines Stage Beckett, 1965–1975: The Discipline of Word and Body      6. Stoppard vs. Brecht: Competing Visions of Galileo      7. New Stage Directions in Waiting for Godot      8. Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, and the “Theatre in Crisis” Playwrights: Publicly Funded Arts and Freedom of Expression      9. Metaphor and Semiotics in Text and Movement Dance Performance      10. Theatre Hoplology: Simulations and Representations of Violence on the Stage      11. Acting Lessons at the Comédie Française: Nivelle de la Chaussée and the Theatricalization of Bourgeois Morality      12. Excavating Muliple “Troys”: An Embodied Deconstruction of the Scenario of Conquest through “Teatro de Vivência”      13. Philosophical Investigations: Will Eno’s Thom Pain and the      14. Foreign or Domestic Drama? Osanai Kaoru and Modern Wittgenstein Effect Japanese Theatre      15. Dressing-up Dramaturgy in Charles L. Mee’s Bacchae 2.1      16. Ch¨shingura and Beyond: A Study of Japanese Ideal of Loyalty      17. On Not Knowing Greek Drama: A Review Essay      Review of Literature: Selected Books Philip C. Kolin, Understanding Adrienne Kennedy      Badia Sahar Ahad John J. White, Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Theory      Neil Blackadder Mary F. Brewer, Staging Whiteness      Miriam M. Chirico James Fisher, ed., Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays      John M. Clum Shannon Jackson, Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity      Penny Farfan Sonia Massai, ed., World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance      Robert Ormsby Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shûji and Postwar Japan      Thomas Rimer Loren Kruger, Post-Imperial Brecht      Carl Weber Index     

About the Author :
Stratos E. Constantinidis, former director of the Comparative Drama Conference and former editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, teaches in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University and lives in Columbus.

Review :
From previous volumes: “Edited with care...preserves the conference experience by extending its scholarly dialogue to the wider reading community...many fine essays”—New England Theatre Journal.