Contents of Volume XXV

Contents of Volume XXV Number 1. March 1982 Introduction I JOSETIE FERAL, JEANNETTE LAILLOU SAVONA, E.A. WALKER Changed Texmal Signs in Modern Theatricality: Gombrowicz and Handke 3 WLADIMIR KRYSINSKI (Translated by RUBY COHN) Theatre as Semiotic Practice 17 JOSEPH MELANt;ON (Translated by PAUL PERRON) Didascalies as Speech Act 25 JEANNETTE LAILLOU SAVONA (Translated by FIONA STRACHAN) Jean Vauthier's The Struggling Protagonist: The Problem of Inner Narratives 36 KAREN LAUGHLIN Space and Time in the Plays of Antonine Maillet 46 PIERRE GOBIN The Liberated Perfonnance 60 BERNARD DORT (Translated by BARBARA KERSLAKE) 594 Index Armand Gatti on Time, Place, and the Theatrical Event 6g Transcribed and Edited by JEAN-PAUL LENIN Introduction by PIERRE BOUILLAGUET (Translated by NANCY OAKES) Genet's The Balcony: A 198 I Perspective on a 1979/80 Production 82 RICHARD SCHECHNER Nonsemiotic Performance 105 MICHAEL KIRBY Danger Music Number Three 112 DICK HIGGINS From Giorgio Strehler to Victor Garcia 113 ODETTE ASLAN (Translated by FIONA STRACHAN) The Pleasure of the Spectator 127 ANNE UBERSFELD (Translated by PIERRE BOUILLAGUET and CHARLES JOSE) Theatricality in Japan 140 MASAO YAMAGUCHI (Translated by E.A. WALKER) Theatre as Infonnation-Processing in Western Cultures 143 DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE "The eye finds no fixed point on which to rest " : "" 154 CHANTAL PONTBRIAND (Translated by C.R. PARSONS) Common Carrier: Performance by Artists 163 PHILIP MONK Perfonnance and Theatricality: The Subject Demystified 170 JOSETTE FtRAL (Translated by TERESE LYONS) BOOK REVIEWS ELAM, KEIR, The Semiotics a/Theatre and Drama by Josette Feral 182 KNOWLSON, JAMES, ed., Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape (Theatre Workbook I) by Enoch BraCer 184 HOLT, MARlON PETER, Jose LOpez Rubio by Enninio G. Neglia 185 Index Number 2, June 1982 The Political Spectrum of Edward Bond: From Rationalism to Rhapsody 189 CHRISTOPHER INNES Makers of Real Shapes: Christopher Hampton and his Story-tellers 207 SEBASTIAN BLACK Modern Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography 222 CHARLES A. CARPENTER BOOK REVIEWS 595 INNES, CHRISTOPHER, Modern German Drama: A Study in Form by John Fuegi 31 I -, Holy Theatre: Ritual and the Avant Garde by Bettina L. Knapp 312 BIGSBY, C.W.E., ed., Contemporary English Drama, and Colby, Douglas, As the Curtain Rises: On Contemporary British Drama 1966-1976 by June Schlueter 314 DUKORE. BERNARD F., The Theatre ofPeter Barnes by Ian Todd 316 ELSOM, JOHN, Post·war British Theatre Criticism by Susan Rusinko 317 DEVITIS, A.A. and ALBERT E. KALSON, 1.B. Priestley by Peter Brigg 319 CHOUDHURI, A.D. , The Face 0/Illusion in American Drama by Gerald D. Parker 321 BERNSTEIN, SAMUEL J., The Strands Entwined: A New Direction in American Drama by Craig Werner 322 OLAUSON, JUDITH, The American Woman Playwright: A View o/Criticism and Characterization by Janet Brown 324 ATTAR, SAMAR, The Intruder in Modern Drama by Lucina P. Gabbard 326 BORING, PHYLLIS ZATLIN, VEctor Ruiz Iriarte by Robert Lima 328 Number 3, September 1982 Beckett's Ohio Impromptu: A View from the Isle of Swans 331 PIERRE ASTIER Light, Sound, Movement, and Action in Beckett's Rockaby 342 ENOCH BRATER The Rip Word in A Piece ofMonologue 349 KRISTIN MORRISON Beckett's Late Works: An Appraisal 355 MARTHA FEHSENFELD Index Roger Planchon's Gilles de Rais: A Liturgy of Evil 363 ROSETTE C. LAMONT Armand Gatti, Subject to History: The Problem of Representation 374 JOHN IRELAND Remembrance of Things Past: French Theater Praxis Today (An Interview with Bernard Dort on the Idea of Theater) 387 LAURENCE ROMERO French Stowaways on an American Milktrain: Williams, Cocteau and Peyrefitte 399 GILBERT DEBUSSCHER The Composition of The Glass Menagerie: An Argument for Complexity 409 BRIAN PARKER Edward Bond's Dialectic: Irony and Dramatic Metaphors 423 ROBERT L. TENER BOOK REVIEWS BARISH, JONAS, The Antitheatrical Prejudice by Eileen Fischer 435 DITSKY, JOHN, The Onstage Christ: Studies in the Persistence ofa Theme by June Schlueter 437 BARRICELLl, JEAN-PIERRE, ed., Chekhov's Great Plays: A Critical Anthology by James M. Curtis 438 CARPENTER, CHARLES A., Modern British Drama (Goldentree Bibliographies) by E.H. Mikhail 440 ESSLIN, MARTIN, Mediations: Essays on Brecht. Beckett. and the Media by Alfred Schwarz 44' WEBER, BETTY NANCE AND HUBERT HEINEN, eds., Bertolt Brecht: Political Theory and Literary Practice by Michael Hays...