Theater Research International :1. Articles. Literary Theatre after the Generals: A Personal Itinerary FEMI OSOFISAN pp 4-19

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1 Theater Research International :1 Articles Literary Theatre after the Generals: A Personal Itinerary FEMI OSOFISAN pp 4-19 Mimesis and the Historical Imagination: (Re)Staging History in Cape Verde, West Africa CHRISTINA S. MCMAHON pp From the Greek Stage to the Martinican Shores: A Caribbean Antigone STÉPHANIE BÉRARD pp Akhir Yom (The Last Day): A Localized Arabic Adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet YVETTE K. KHOURY pp Intercultural Theatre? A Streetcar Named Desire on the Turkish Stage PÜRNUR UÇAR ÖZBIRINCI pp Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Theatre ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE pp Book Reviews Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, By Manon van de Water. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Jeanne Klein

2 pp Transvestism and the Onnagata Traditions in Shakespeare and Kabuki. Edited by Minoru Fujita and Michael Shapiro. Kent: Global Oriental, Pp. vii illus. 50 Hb. Adele Lee pp Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama. By Alison Findlay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Margaret Rogerson pp Historicising Beckett: Issues of Performance Beckett dans l'histoire: En jouant Beckett. Edited by Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, Dirk van Hulle and Danièle de Ruyter. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, Notes Diverses Holo: Catalogues of Beckett's Reading Notes and Other Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin, with Supporting Essays. Edited by Matthijs Engelberts and Everett Frost, with Jane Maxwell. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, Présence de Samuel Beckett Presence of Samuel Beckett: Colloque de Cerisy. Edited by Sjef Houppermans. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett's Disjunctions. By Paul Stewart. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett: Uncollected Interviews with Samuel Beckett and Memories of Those

3 Who Knew Him. Edited by James Knowlson and Elizabeth Knowlson. London: Bloomsbury, John Fletcher pp Making Theatre in Northern Ireland: Through and beyond the Troubles. By Tom Maguire. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation. Edited by Melissa Sihra. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, James Moran pp Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage, : M. A. Kelly to J. M. Synge and the Allgoods. By Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, Karen O'Brien pp Women's Theatrical Writing in Victorian Britain. By Katherine Newey. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Pp. ix Hb. Jane Moody pp Stages of Dismemberment: The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama. By Margaret E. Owens. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, Marla Carlson pp The Senses in Performance. Edited by Sally Banes and André Lepecki. New York: Routledge, Peta Tait pp

4 Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant- Garde Performance. Edited by James M. Harding and John Rouse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Günter Berghaus pp A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past. Edited by Judie Christie, Richard Gough and Daniel Watt. Abdingdon and New York: Routledge, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance. By Paul Allain and Jen Harvie. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, Theresa Smalec pp Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. By Scott T. Cummings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World. By Anne Bogart. New York: Routledge, Matt Saltzberg pp It. By Joseph Roach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Jill Dolan pp

5 Theater Research International :2 Article On Faithfulness: The Difficulties Experienced by the Text/Performance Couple pp PATRICE PAVIS Space is out of Joint: Experiencing Non- Euclidean Space in Theatre pp JERZY LIMON Calls for Remembrance: At Work with Traditional Chants pp CLÁUDIA TATINGE NASCIMENTO Adelaide Ristori's Tour of the East Mediterranean ( ) and the Discourse on the Formation of Modern Greek Theatre pp IOANNA PAPAGEORGIOU Flagellation of the Son of God and Divine Flagellation: Flagellator Ceremonies and Flagellation Scenes in the Medieval Passion Play pp FRIEDEMANN KREUDER The Word Made Flesh: Staging Pornography in Eighteenth-Century Paris pp LAURENCE SENELICK

6 Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre. By Joanne Tompkins. Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place. Edited by Gay McAuley. Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross- Cultural Transactions in Australian Theatre. By Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo. pp Rachel Fensham Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, By Daniel O'Quinn. pp Lisa A. Freeman Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, By Kim Marra. pp Stacy Wolf Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction. By Tony Howard. pp Lisa Jackson-Schebetta The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Edited by Robert Shaughnessy. Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage. By Frances Teague pp Kelly V. Jones The Victorian Clown. By Jacky Bratton and Ann Featherstone. pp Trish Reid The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. By C. W. Marshall. pp Costas Panayotakis

7 A History of Italian Theatre. Edited by Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp illus. 65/$110 Hb. pp Bruno Ferraro Theater and Nation in Eighteenth- Century Germany. By Michael J. Sosulski pp S. E. Wilmer Fedor Shaliapin: Mul'timedia Al'bom (Feodor Chaliapin: A Multimedia Album). By Mikhail Solomatin. pp Dassia Posner Judson Dance Theatre: Performative Traces. By Ramsay Burt. pp Cara Cargano Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and Irony Revisited. Edited by Joe Brandesky. pp Christopher Baugh Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion. Edited by Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout. pp Lourdes Orozco Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company. By Keith Dewhurst and Jack Shepherd. Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark. By Philip Roberts and Max Stafford-Clark. pp Nadine Holdsworth

8 Theater Research International :3 Articles Introduction: Towards a Genetic Study of Performance Take 2 pp JOSETTE FÉRAL Towards a Genetic Understanding of Non-contemporary Theatre: Traces, Objects, Methods pp JEAN-MARIE THOMASSEAU Molière and the Circumstances of Late Seventeenth-Century Rehearsal Practice pp JOHN GOLDER The Fragility of Beginnings: The First Genetic Stratum of Le Square by Marguerite Duras (1956) pp MARIE-MADELEINE MERVANT- ROUX Not Magic but Work: Rehearsal and the Production of Meaning pp GAY MCAULEY Written Documents of the Assistant Director: A Record of Remaking pp SOPHIE PROUST The Revival of Plays: A Procedure Open to Question pp CHRISTINE HAMON-SIRÉJOLS Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. By Laura Edmondson. pp Christine Matzke

9 African Theatre and Performances. By Osita Okagbue. pp Jane Plastow Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race. By Gay Gibson pp Jill Dolan Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas. By Christopher B. Balme. pp Helen Gilbert Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda. By Hilary Glow. pp Jonathan Bollen City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City. By Michael McKinnie. pp Michael Peterson Silent Eloquence: Lucian and Pantomime Dancing. By Ismene Lada- Richards. Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre. Edited by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton. pp Margaret Coldiron Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation. By David Wiles. pp Angeliki Varakis The Art of Commedia: A Study in the Commedia dell'arte with Special Reference to the Visual Records. By M. A. Katritzky. pp Kenneth Richards Die Shakespeare-Illustrationen [The Shakespeare Illustrations]. Edited by Hildegard Hammerschmidt- Hummel. pp Michael Patterson

10 Female Performance Practice on the Fin-de-Siècle Popular Stages of London and Paris. By Catherine Hindson. pp John Stokes Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, By Marline Otte. pp Peter W. Marx Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance. By Lynette Goddard. Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice. Edited by Geoffrey V. Davis and Anne Fuchs. Alternatives within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Edited by Dimple Godiwala. pp Susan Croft Dramaturgy and Performance. By Cathy Turner and Synne K. Behrndt. pp Jacqueline Bolton Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn. Edited by Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart. pp Kevin McFillen