New Theatre Quarterly 62

by Edited by Clive Barker , Simon Trussler

• ISBN13: 9780521789028
• ISBN10: 0521789028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

New Theatre Quarterly shows that theater history has a contemporary relevance, that theater studies need a methodology, and that theater criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theater studies. Articles in volume 62 include: Staging and Storytelling, Theatre and Film: Richard III at Stratford; The Theatrical Biosphere and Ecologies of Performance; A Riposte to David Mamet: Heresy and Common Sense in True and False; Form as Weapon: the Political Function of Song in Urban Zimbabwean Theatre; Whatever Happened to Gay Theatre?

Table of Contents

Staging and Storytelling, Theatre and Film: Richard III at Stratford, 1910	107	(15)
Russell Jackson
rare footage illuminates stage practice and filmic development
The Theatrical Biosphere and Ecologies of Performance	122	(9)
Baz Kershaw
a biological microcosm and the `theatre of the world'
The Afro-Caribbean Identity and the English Stage	131	(6)
Barnaby King
intercultural prejudice, artistic practice - and cultural bureaucracy
Theatre and Urban Space: the Case of Birmingham Rep	137	(11)
Claire Cochrane
the shifting relationship between a theatre and a city
Form as Weapon: the Political Function of Song in Urban Zimbabwean Theatre	148	(7)
Martin Rohmer
how theatre utilizes and sometimes legitimizes political protest
Aphrodite Speaks: on the Recent Performance Art of Carolee Schneemann	155	(8)
Carolee Schneemann
the performance artist, her thinking, and her work in the `nineties
Across Two Eras: Slovak Theatre from Communism to Independence	163	(12)
Dagmar Institorisova
Daniela Bacova
older and younger generations confront the challenges of `freedom'
Whatever Happened to Gay Theatre?	175	(11)
Brian Roberts
politics and sexual politics, assimilation and assertion
`My Future Plan? To Die': Grotowski's Last Visit to Wroclaw	186	(6)
Joanna Ostrowska
the final meeting between a theatrical master and his compatriots
NTQ Reports and Announcements	192	(3)
assessment of NT 2000-and the Century sees out the century
NTQ Book Reviews	195
Maggie Gale