Abstract: The digital performances forwarding discourses of "we're all in it together" proliferated in the opening months of the COVID-19 pandemic, performing the social legibility of pain and loss within the public sphere. The body takes on an indexical force in such performances, constructing a symbolic community defined by the shared experience of sheltering-in-place. This performs social distancing

Abstract: This essay brings together the perspective of theatre history studies and fan studies in order to ask what it meant to be a celebrity fangirl in the late nineteenth century and thus to historicize fandom and recover forsaken aspects of nineteenth-century theatre culture. By invoking the unique traces of fan experience and fan practices such as recollections left by a self-declared "theatre

Abstract: This essay analyzes the Disney+ 2021 series WandaVision through the lens of adaptation dramaturgy (or adapturgy), asking, "Why this witch now?" With a focus on US American popular tropes of witches, including the Salem witch trials and The Wizard of Oz, the essay examines how the series resonated with fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the general public in the immediate aftermath

Abstract: This essay explores the intersections and conflicts between the antiracist projects of West Indian decolonization and dance anthropology in 1930s Jamaica through an analysis of the Afro-Caribbean social dance spaces at Edelweiss Park. Edelweiss Amusement Park was a multimedia entertainment venue and nightclub in the heart of Kingston that Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey opened in 1929

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sixby Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss Horacio Sierra SIX. By Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage. Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City. October 9, 2021. In a theatrical landscape regularly awash with jukebox musicals that cull the catalogs of big-name pop artists such as ABBA, Alanis Morrissette

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Watering Holeby Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon Danielle Drees THE WATERING HOLE. Conceived and created by Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon, in partnership with Christina Anderson et al. Signature Theatre, New York City. July 6, 2021. The Watering Holeflooded New York's Pershing Square Signature Center, filling three stages

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sistuhs in the Struggle: an Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance by La Donna L. Forsgren Isaiah Matthew Wooden SISTUHS IN THE STRUGGLE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT THEATER AND PERFORMANCE. By La Donna L. Forsgren. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020; pp. 384. La Donna L. Forsgen's

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives by Paola S. Hernández Analola Santana STAGING LIVES IN LATIN AMERICAN THEATER: BODIES, OBJECTS, ARCHIVES. By Paola S. Hernández. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 228. For a few decades now, Latin American artists and scholars have been grappling

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: ?Presente! the Politics of Presence by Diana Taylor Paola S. Hernández ?PRESENTE! THE POLITICS OF PRESENCE. By Diana Taylor. Dissident Acts series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020; pp. 344. Diana Taylor's most recent book, ?Presente! The Politics of Presence invites readers to "walk the walk" and to revisit the history

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Enzo E. Vasquez Toral TRANSLOCAS: THE POLITICS OF PUERTO RICAN DRAG AND TRANS PERFORMANCE. By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints by Ana Elena Puga and Víctor M. Espinosa Gail A. Bulman PERFORMANCES OF SUFFERING IN LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATION: HEROES, MARTYRS AND SAINTS. By Ana Elena Puga and Víctor M. Espinosa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. 372. Migrants'

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage ed. by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate Jonathan Chambers PERFORMING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: IMMIGRATION, URBAN LIFE, AND NATIONALISM ON STAGE. Edited by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate. Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. Iowa City:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present by Ana Martínez Jacqueline E. Bixler PERFORMANCE IN THE ZóCALO: CONSTRUCTING HISTORY, RACE, AND IDENTITY IN MEXICO'S CENTRAL SQUARE FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE PRESENT. By Ana Martínez. Ann Arbor:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1940 by Ruud van den Beuken Matthew Franks AVANT-GARDE NATIONALISM AT THE DUBLIN GATE THEATRE, 1928–1940. By Ruud van den Beuken. Irish Studies series. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021; pp. 276. No cultural institution dominates Irish studies like the Abbey

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater by Theresa J. May Morgan Grambo EARTH MATTERS ON STAGE: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN AMERICAN THEATER. By Theresa J. May. Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance series. New York: Routledge, 2020; pp. 310. Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief by Lindsay Brandon Hunter Nick Salvato PLAYING REAL: MIMESIS, MEDIA, AND MISCHIEF. By Lindsay Brandon Hunter. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. 192. Reading Lindsay Brandon Hunter's brilliant book Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief makes me want—mischievously—to

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London by Alex Ferrone Alessandro Simari STAGE BUSINESS AND THE NEOLIBERAL THEATRE OF LONDON. By Alex Ferrone. Contemporary Performance Interactions series. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; pp. 264. Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London begins with a story

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Marking Modern Movement: Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic by Susan Funkenstein Meagan K. Tripp MARKING MODERN MOVEMENT: DANCE AND GENDER IN THE VISUAL IMAGERY OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC. By Susan Funkenstein. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany series. Ann Arbor: University of

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Performing Quarantined Isolation in the Spring of 2020 Dani Snyder-Young (bio) In this edition of Theatre Journal, I examine two digital performances commissioned and premiering within the context of quarantined isolation in April and May 2020: Mike Sears and Lisa Berger's Ancient, which kicked off the La Jolla Playhouse's Digital WOW

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Black Caribbean Pleasure Dances and the Ethnographic Imagination Amanda Reid (bio) Attempting to write about the legacy of anthropologist, choreographer, and dancer Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) in the Caribbean is a daunting task. She seems to embody so many of the tensions inherent in diaspora formation in a way that feels dazzlingly

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A New Language of the Future:A Conversation with Himali Singh Soin Clara Wilch (bio) Himali Singh Soin is a London- and Delhi-based artist whose performance and poetry rove across media. Soin carefully realizes a project's ideal form over time and through a wide range of creative modalities, including performance, poetry, film, digital

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Lope de Vega y el Humanismo cristiano ed. by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas, and: Literatura y devoción en tiempos de Lope de Vega ed. by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas Chad Leahy Lope de Vega y el Humanismo cristiano. Edited by Jesús Ponce Cárdenas. IBEROAMERICANA / VERVUERT, 2018. 206 PP. Literatura y devoción en tiempos de Lope de Vega. Edited

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Prologue Elizabeth R. Wright Plot twists delight and challenge us as readers, teachers, and scholars of Golden Age theater. But the year of this issue, 2021, united us with a series of unexpected, previously unimaginable turns of events, some welcome, many decidedly not. Though readers who open this issue or download it in the spring of

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Don W. Cruickshank (1942–2021) Germán Vega García-Luengos EL PASADO 17 DE AGOSTO nos dejó Don Cruickshank, de repente, sin ningún aviso previo, sin habernos preparado para estar sin él al abordar aspectos que hoy consideramos fundamentales de la investigación literaria en general, y del teatro del Siglo de Oro en particular. Entre los

Abstract: This research note provides an overview of Comedias Sueltas USA, a website dedicated to a census of holdings in US academic and independent research libraries of sueltas, understood as individual plays within the literatura de cordel tradition, published from circa 1600 to 1833 by printers based in Iberian cities, as well as population centers in Europe and the Americas ruled by Spain or

Abstract: This article examines Lope de Vega's poetic dramatization of Seville's maritime culture and space in El Arenal de Sevilla, an early comedia urbana composed in 1603 while the playwright was residing in Seville. Set amid the ships docked along the Guadalquivir River, the chaotic play presents long sequences of side plots and frenzied scene changes that reflect the bustling seaport and its mass

Abstract: To give scholars continuous access to a profound contribution to comedia studies, we republish Stefano Arata's exploration of how Federico García Lorca refreshed and recontextualized Golden Age theater with the La Barraca theater company. Drawing on inspirations from Ramón Menéndez Pidal's innovative philology that recovered Spain's rich ballad tradition, or romancero, Manuel de Falla's avant-garde

Abstract: To provide context for the republication of Stefano Arata's "Candor y tragedia: Federico García Lorca y la poética de La Barraca" as a Touchstone of comedia studies, this essay details how a generation of Italian Hispanists who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s coalesced around new methodologies and practices. Of particular importance for them were new opportunities for scholarly collaborations

Abstract: The entremés Los habladores—attributed by some in the past to Miguel de Cervantes, but now agreed to be of unknown authorship—anchors an exploration and contextualization of versos encadenados, called anadiplosis in formal rhetoric. Such contemplations serve as both homage and scholarly coda to the seminal article of 2002 by the late Stefano Arata, "Candor y tragedia: Federico García Lorca

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Francisco de Osuna's "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe ed. by Dana Bultman Elizabeth Rhodes Francisco de Osuna's "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Dana Bultman. AMSTERDAM

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World by Barbara Fuchs Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Barbara Fuchs. Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World. U OF PENNSYLVANIA P, 2020. 208 PP. LA NOVELA PICARESCA gozó de una particular atención crítica entre los a?os sesenta y

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700 ed. by Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal Seth Kimmel The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700. Edited by Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal. U OF TORONTO P, 2020. 304 PP. THE QUESTS

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Signos vitales: procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea by Enrique García Santo-Tomás Fernando Sanz-Lázaro Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Signos vitales: procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea. IBEROAMERICANA / VERVUERT, 2020. 364 PP. CON ESTE TRABAJO, el autor retoma la labor que emprendió con La musa refractada. Literatura

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Storiografia e teatro tra Italia e peninsula ibérica ed. by Michela Graziani and Salomé Vuelta García Goretti González Michela Graziani and Salomé Vuelta García, editors. Storiografia e teatro tra Italia e peninsula ibérica. LEO S. OLSCHKI, 2019. 160 PP. AS EARLY AS 1580, with Herrera's study of Garcilaso and Petrarch in his

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601 by Ruth MacKay Claire Gilbert Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601. CAMBRIDGE UP, 2019. 288 PP. MACKAY'S TIMELY NEW BOOK DEPARTS from the fateful docking of the ship Rodamundo in Santander in 1596 and the subsequent

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: El caballero dama. Edición crítica y estudio introductorio de Sidney Donnell by Cristóbal de Monroy y Silva José R. Cartagena-Calderón Cristóbal de Monroy y Silva. El caballero dama. Edición crítica y estudio introductorio de Sidney Donnell. JUAN DE LA CUESTA, 2019. 166 PP. EN MARCADO CONTRASTE CON LA MUJER VESTIDA DE HOMBRE

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain ed. by Eduardo Olid Guerrero and Esther Fernández José María Pérez Fernández Eduardo Olid Guerrero and Esther Fernández, eds. The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain. U OF NEBRASKA P, 2019. 420 PP. THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EXAMINES a series of cases that illustrate the

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West by Ricardo Padrón Noemí Martín Santo Ricardo Padrón. The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West. U OF CHICAGO P, 2020, 352 PP ARGUING THAT THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION of

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hacia un primer teatro clásico. El teatro del Renacimiento en su laberinto ed. by Julio Vélez Sainz Laura Mier Pérez Hacia un primer teatro clásico. El teatro del Renacimiento en su laberinto. Edición de Julio Vélez Sainz. IBEROAMERICANA / VERVUERT, 2019. 188 PP. EL LIBRO QUE AQUí RESE?AMOS constituye un interesante compendio

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: ?Quién te lo vezó a dezir? El habla de negro en la literatura del XVI, imitación de una realidad lingüística by Antonio Santos Morillo Diana Berruezo-Sánchez ?Quién te lo vezó a dezir? El habla de negro en la literatura del XVI, imitación de una realidad lingüística. Antonio Santos Morillo IBEROAMERICANA / VERVUERT, 2020.

Abstract: An interview with David Boceta, director of En otro reino extra?o (2020) for Spain's Joven Compa?ía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, details the innovative collaboration in digital theater that took shape in the spring of 2020 in response to a seeming calamity for theater professionals—the sudden shutdown of theaters precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The director explains how the team of

(2022). Preliminary thoughts on the death of the editor. Studies in Theatre and Performance: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

ABSTRACT This paper describes an experimental project conducted by artists/researchers Crab & Bee (Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith). The project was put together in response to the Covid Lockdown restrictions during 2020 in the UK and drew upon an art and performance practice that had been unfolding since 2018. ‘Testing Scores for Performing Placestories’ describes the testing of a group of scores

ABSTRACT This article seeks to reconstruct and explore the initial theatrical reception of Lorca in the UK, focusing on why and how his texts entered the British theatrical ecosystem, and how they created connections among artists in and beyond Britain. This exploration of a largely ignored archive of the past also opens new gates for future theoretical reflections surrounding the complex symbolic

ABSTRACT This article investigates how deeply engaging embodied perception can be nurtured and refined over a lifetime. In this article, we propose the ways in which an industry-based, self-styled performance training trajectory and a DIY approach to lifelong learning in performance-making cohere as an ecology of practice. Selected exercises are drawn on to consider how skills are accrued and how a

ABSTRACT Crossing the frontiers looking for inspiration has been part of the Irish literary tradition, and translation and adaptation of continental writers such as Federico García Lorca have played an important role. The dissenting Lorquian voices revive in Ireland to find new meanings for the silences of the original play. This article explores an unpublished version of La Casa de Bernarda Alba,

(2022). Correction. Studies in Theatre and Performance: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 98-98.

This article investigates live performance in the broad geo-historical context of the Anthropocene, a contested term in recent scholarship, but one that offers a breadth of focus on human relations with its coexistent non-human other. These interrelations are examined through a range of theatrical and non-theatrical genres and sites from the Australian parliament's coal theatrics to exemplary performances

Since the eruption of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the arrival of refugees in Turkey has been unprecedented in the country's history. Theatre practitioners have been slow to address this migratory moment, but an exception has been Istanbul-based Dostlar Tiyatrosu's 2017 production G??menleeeer, a translation of Romanian–French playwright Matéi Visniec's Migraaaants. Developed in the context of Europe's

This article uncovers the connections between the legal and scientific art of searching for human remains and theatrical performances. NAKA Dance Theater, a performance group based in Mexico City and Oakland, California, is at the centre of this intersection of art and forensics. Founded by José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama, NAKA creates theatrical events to configure a claim for social justice where

The large-scale theatre exhibitions in Vienna (1892), Berlin (1910) and Magdeburg (1927) contained extensive displays on the history of German-language theatre. This article analyses the pedagogical and epistemological discussions about different ways of mediating theatre history that formed part of the context of the three exhibitions. Curators and scholars used the German term Anschauung to measure

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 1619:The Dramatic Performance Traditions of North America's First Enslaved Africans Jeroen Dewulf (bio) The 400th anniversary of the 1619 arrival in Virginia of a "Dutch man of war" carrying "20. and odd Negroes" sparked renewed interest in the identity of the earliest enslaved Africans known to arrive in the English colonies in North

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I am underneath and oxygen is running out":Suicide as Genetically Inherited or as the Melancholy Identification with the Suicidal Mother in Alice Birch's Anatomy of a Suicide Alireza Fakhrkonandeh (bio) and Yi?it Sümbül (bio) "Like its real-life counterpart, stage-suicide can express a wish for posthumous control over the lives and feelings

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Coronada y el toro by Francisco Nieva Casey Kasten (bio) Francisco Nieva, Coronada y el toro, ed. Komla Aggor. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020. Pp. 99 + 4 b/w illus. $17.99. Despite his undeniably important role in Spanish theatre, Francisco Nieva remains understudied both in Spain and abroad. An accomplished

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630 by Natalie Crohn Schmitt Robert Henke (bio) Natalie Crohn Schmitt. Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 120. $59.95. Natalie Crohn Schmitt, who has already written a solid analysis of Flaminio Scala's published scenario collection entitled

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage by Melinda Powers Karelisa Hartigan (bio) Melinda Powers. Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage. (Classical Presences) New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 230. $81.79. Greek drama on the American stage: a good thing. The ancient classics

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatre and Knowledge by David Kornhaber Paul A. Kottman (bio) David Kornhaber. Theatre and Knowledge. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 82. $9.99 paper, $7.99 e-book. David Kornhaber's Theatre and Knowledge is about as long, in terms of word count, as a typical academic essay, though it is published in the series 'Small

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays by Matthew Sergi Pamela M. King (bio) Matthew Sergi. Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. Xi + 318. $88.30 cloth, $36.00 paper, $28.50 e-book. In this distinctive study of the Chester

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Laughter and Civility: the Theater of Emma Gad by Lynn R. Wilkinson Ulla Kallenbach (bio) Lynn R. Wilkinson. Laughter and Civility: the Theater of Emma Gad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Pp. 328 + 8 b/w illus. $79.95 cloth. This book is unusual in that it concerns a Danish female playwright, Emma Gad (1852-1921)

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater by S. E. Gontarski John S. Bak (bio) S. E. Gontarski. Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater. London/New York: Anthem, 2021. Pp. xii + 118 + 19 b/w illus. $24.99 paper, $23.80 eBook. Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism