Contributors

Contributors RUBY COHN, Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama at the University of California at Davis, has published some ten books and a hundred articles on modern drama and/or Samuel Beckett. DAVID B. EDNEY teaches French at the University of Saskatchewan. His translations of French plays have appeared in several Canadian theatres, on CBC radio and at the Chichester Festival in England. His most recent production is Moliere's Tartuffe staged at the University of Saskatchewan last February and set in Ottawa in October t970. JOSEPH FARRELL is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is also theatre reviewer for The Scotsman newspaper and broadcasts frequently with BBC radio on arts and cultural programmes . He is author of Leonardo Sciascia, editor of an anthology of writings on the Sicilian mafia entitled Understanding the Mafia and of a collection of essays, Carlo Goldoni and Eighteenth-Celltury Theatre. He has been commissioned to write a biography of Dario Fo. BILL FINDLAY has co-translated seven plays by the Quebec dramatist Michel Tremblay and has scripted versions of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers and Pavel Kohout's Fire in the Basement - all for Scottish theatre companies. He has edited A History ofScottish Theatre (1998) and lectures in the Department of Drama at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh. DAVID JOHNSTON is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the School of Modem Languages at Queen 's University, Belfast. He has written and published translations of works by Valle-Incilin (including Bohemian Lights, winner of the 1993 LWT New Plays on Stage award), Lorca, Calderon, Lope de Modem Drama, 41 (1998) 179 180 Contributors Vega, Buero and Sastre. He has recently edited The Stages ofTranslation and has edited and written a number of books and articles on Spanish theatre. CHRISTINE KIEBUZINSKA is an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnical Institute. She is the author of Revolutionaries in the Theatre: Meyerhold , Brecht and Witkiewicz, and her articles and reviews have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, The Comparatist, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama and the Brecht Yearbook. She is currently completing a book on intertextuality in modem drama. JAMES LEtGH teaches American and British language, literature and civilization at the Handelsh¢yskolen BI in Norway. His publications include work on Nietzsche, Michel Leiris and Samuel Beckett. He is currently working on a book on Italo Calvino and postmodemism in literature and science. MERVYN MCMURTRY is Professor and Head of the Department of Drama and Performance Sludies, University of Natal, Durban. He has published articles on Athol Fugard, Pieter-Dirk Uys, postcolonial theatre and satire in South African theatre. He has directed and designed nearly forty productions, most recently Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good. STEPHEN MULRINE lectures at Glasgow School of Art and has written extensively for radio and television; he is also a translator. Published work ranges from Ostrovsky and Chekhov to the contemporary plays of Gelman and Petrusheskaya. His Moscow Stations has been staged in Edinburgh, London and New York; ' other adaptations include Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog and Leskov's Lady Macbeth ofMtsensk. He is currently engaged on a collection of plays by Turgenev, and Gogol's Marriage and The Gamblers. COLIN TEEVAN is Writer in Residence at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A co-founder of the Galloglass Theatre Company, Tipperary , he is author of a number of original plays, including The Big Sea (1990, Avignon Theatre Festival, 1992) and more recently Vinegar and Brown Paper (Abbey Theatre Company, 1995) and The Crack ofthe Whip (Galloglass Theatre Company, (997). Several of his plays have been translated into French and Italian. His own translations include /ph, after Euripides's /phigeneia ill Aulis, and Cuckoos, after Zozos by Manfredi. He is currently working on a new version of Buchner's Lena and Leonce. TOBY SILVERMAN ZINMAN is Professor of English at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, as well as dramaturge for the University's School of Theatre. She is a feature writer for American Theatre, reviewer for Variety and thealre critic for Philadelphia's City Paper. She writes frequently on contemporary drama and has recently edited a collection of essays on Terrence McNally. ...