Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 5, No. 0827. Friday, 21 October 1994.
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Date: Wednesday, 19 Oct 1994 11:47:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Announcing: TDR (T143)
...You probably heard of us but when is the last time you read...
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-- The Journal of Performance Studies - T143 (Fall 1994) --
TDR is the only journal that explores the diverse world of performance
with an emphasis on the intercultural, interdisciplinary and experimental.
It covers theatre, music, dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics,
aesthetics of everyday life, games, plays and ritual.
The journal is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of
Performance Studies, New York University, and is published quarterly
by The MIT Press. Although TDR is not yet an electronic journal, you
can browse through sample articles available on-line through the
Electronic Newsstand and order via e-mail from The MIT Press (see
directions below). Check out our table of contents!
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// In this issue (T143 Fall 1994) \\
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/TDR Comment
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The Dilemma of Multiculturalism in the Theatre -- by Ethel Pitts Walker
/In Memory
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Ron Vawter by -- Richard Schechner
/Letters, Etc.
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Healing and Japanese Theatre -- a letter from Adam Lebowitz
-- Deborah S. Klens responds
/Updates
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Big Girls Do Cry: Femininity and Toughness in the Kerrigan-Harding
Affair -- by Abigail M. Feder
Retrial for Sharjah Blasphemers -- by Richard Schechner
/Announcements
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The Courage to Be Happy: Augusto Boal, Legislative Theatre, and
the 7th International Festival of the Theatre of the Oppressed
-- by Paul Heritage
Vindicated: A Letter from Augusto Boal -- by Augusto Boal
A Role to Play for the Theatre of the Oppressed -- by Douglas L. Paterson
To Be or To Have -- by Zbigniew Cynkutis
translated and edited by William H. Shepard
Mask Face and Machine Face -- by Mikhail Yampolsky
translated by Larry Joseph
Playing Against the Text: Les Atrides and the History of Reading
Aeschylus -- by Sallie Goetsch
Who Speaks and Who Is Spoken For?: Playwright, Director, and
Producer Joan Lipkin -- an interview by Iris Smith
Re/membering Home and Heritage: The New World Performance
Laboratory -- by Lisa Wolford
"I Want the Microphone": Mass Mediation and Agency in Asian-American
Popular Music -- by Deborah Wong
"it was like a play in a play in a play!": Tales from South Asia in an
Intercultural Production -- by Sharon A. Grady and Phillip B. Zarrilli
/Books
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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (by Peggy Phelan) -- reviewed
by Philip Auslander
Ecstacy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of
Mary Wigman (by Susan Manning) -- reviewed by Karl Toepfer
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 (by Elizabeth
Howe) -- reviewed by Tracy C. Davis
Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama (by John M. Clum); and,
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work
of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (by David Savran) -- reviewed
by Bradley Boney
Interculturalism and Performance: Writings from PAJ (edited by Bonnie
Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta); and,
The Dramatic Touch of Difference: Theatre, Own, and Foreign (edited by
Erika Fischer-Lichte) -- reviewed by Phillip B. Zarrilli
Each TDR issue is filled with photographs, artwork, and scripts that
illustrate every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is 7 x 10 and
a 184 pages per issue.
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