Theatre History Studies 2010

by Justice-malloy, Rhona

• ISBN13: 9780817371074
• ISBN10: 0817371079
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-04
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studiesjournal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre. Topics included range from modern theatrical trends and challenges in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and examining the history and long-range impact of Paul Robeson's groundbreaking and troubled life and career, to gender issues in the work of Ghanaian playwright Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, and the ways that 19th-century American blackness was defined through Othello and Desdemona. This collection fills a vacancy in academic writing. Readers will enjoy it; academics can incorporate it into their curriculum; and students will find it helpful and illuminating.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Poor "Black" Theatre: Mid-America Theatre Conference Keynote Address, March 7, 2009	p. 1
Hit-and-Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe	p. 14
Abject No More: Authority and Authenticity in the Theatrical Career of Rose McClendon	p. 42
How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-election Kenya	p. 65
The Unreported Miracle of Paul Robeson and The Miracle	p. 73
Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past	p. 83
"You Hip to Buffalo?" The Hidden Heritage of Black Theatre in Western New York	p. 102
Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman	p. 122
Understanding Paul Robeson's Soviet Experience	p. 138
Ota the Other: An African on Display in America	p. 154
Oteller and Desdemonum: Defining Nineteenth-Century Blackness	p. 176
"Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": Representations of the Progressive Era Middle Class in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Star of Ethiopia	p. 187
Knowing Their Place: The Ulster Lyric Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, and the Northern Irish Theatre Scene	p. 202
Thinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008	p. 220
Book Reviews
The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience	p. 235
Women in American Musical Theatre	p. 237
The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750. Vol. 2, Queer Articulations	p. 240
Spalding Gray's America	p. 242
Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene Design and the American Theatre	p. 244
A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage	p. 247
Gothic Plays and American Society, 1794-1830	p. 249
Dramaturgy and Performance	p. 251
Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance	p. 254
American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century	p. 256
Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts	p. 259
Theatre Arts on Acting	p. 262
Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain	p. 264
Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State	p. 267
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism	p. 269
The American Play, 1787-2000	p. 272
The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights	p. 275
Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama	p. 277
Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation	p. 280
The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson	p. 282
Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s	p. 286
Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works	p. 288
The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder	p. 290
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era	p. 293
Books Received	p. 297
Contributors	p. 299
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