Project MUSE - Modern Drama - Volume 51, Number 2, Summer 2008

Glocalized Theatrum Mundi: The Case of Comédie des comédiens

pp. 165-187

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theatrum mundi, comédies des comédiens, glocalization, power relations and hierarchy, logos and illusion, minor literature, l'immédiat-politique

Cries of Fire: Psychotherapy in Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Ariel Watson

pp. 188-210

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psychotherapy, metatheatre, antipsychiatry, Sarah Kane, Joe Penhall, Conor McPherson

Bringing out the Acid: Noël Coward, Harold Pinter, Ivy Compton-Burnett and the Uses of Camp

Sos Eltis

pp. 211-233

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Coward, Pinter, Compton-Burnett camp, style, self-performance, detachment, flippancy

Narratives of Success, Narratives of Failure: The Creation and Collapse of Sistren's "Aesthetic Space"

Karina Smith

pp. 234-258

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Sistren Theatre Collective, "aesthetic space", Democratic Socialism, "cultural agents", development agencies

"How Will They Ever Heal . . .?" Bearing Witness to Abuse and the Importance of Female Community in Sarah Daniels's Beside Herself, Head-Rot Holiday, and The Madness of Esme and Shaz

Heather Debling

pp. 259-273

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Sarah Daniels, trauma, female community, madness, testimony, child abuse

French Tragic Farce in an Age of Interpellation: Michel Azama's Croisades and Hervé Blutsch's Anatole Felde

Scott D. Taylor

pp. 274-287

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tragic farce, interpellation, Michel Azama, Hervé Blutsch, Patrice Pavis, Louis Althusser, textuality, fictionalization

Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell, and: Susan Glaspell and the Anxiety of Expression: Language and Isolation in the Plays (review)

J. Ellen Gainor

pp. 289-293

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Performing Science and the Virtual (review)

Amy Strahler Holzapfel

pp. 293-295

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Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (review)

Laura Levin

pp. 295-298

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Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism (review)