CONTENTS

Provocation

Delappe, Joseph, 1963-
• dead-in-iraq: performance/memorial/protest
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  Subject Headings:
  • Iraq War, 2003-
  • Soldiers -- Death.
  • Interactive art.

TDR Comment

Schechner, Richard, 1934-
• "We Are, After All, at War"
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  Subject Headings:
  • War.

Brown, Kenneth H.
• Planning Ahead with Adolf Hitler
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  Subject Headings:
  • Propaganda.

Letters, Etc.

Schechner, Richard, 1934-
Sandford, Mariellen R., 1955-
• TDR Comings and Goings
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Articles

Stepakoff, Shanee.
• Telling and Showing: Witnesses Represent Sierra Leone’s War Atrocities in Court and Onstage
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  Subject Headings:
  • War victims.
  • War crime trials.
  • Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Theater and the war.
  Abstract:

  After a brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, a young prosecution witness in the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor at The Hague created, directed, and performed a drama that graphically portrays the trauma she and her fellow survivors experienced during the war. Stepakoff was the psychologist for the Special Court for Sierra Leone—working with victims of severe human rights violations—and an invited guest at the young woman’s performance.

Breed, Ananda.
• Performing the Nation: Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda
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  Subject Headings:
  • Theater -- Rwanda -- History -- 1994-
  • Theater -- Political aspects.
  • Reconciliation.
  Abstract:

  While grassroots theatre brings together perpetrators and survivors of the Rwandan genocide, government-driven campaigns can manipulate theatre for reconciliation to serve its own nationalist agenda. The Mutabaruka company use their performances in Burundi to resurrect/construct the identity of a precolonial Rwanda; the Mashirika theatre focus on reconciling the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa.

Jakovljevic, Branislav.
• From Mastermind to Body Artist: Political Performances of Slobodan Milošević
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  Subject Headings:
  • Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994-
  • War crime trials -- Netherlands -- Hague.
  Abstract:

  From his rise to power in the mid-’80s to his trial 20 years later, Milošević was the focus of powerful social theatricalities. As a public performance, Milošević’s trial is inseparable from the mass meetings he organized in Serbia between 1987 and 1989; the political drama of the breakdown of Yugoslavia’s federal government; the intense struggles against the opposition fought in the streets; the wars taking place in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo; and finally his own funeral.

White, Graham.
• Witnessing Proceedings: The Hague War Crimes Tribunal, Narrative Indeterminacy, and the Public Audience
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  Subject Headings:
  • Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994-
  • War crime trials -- Netherlands -- Hague.
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  Abstract:

  The prosecution of Slobodan Milošević at the ICTY in The Hague foregrounded the role of the live courtroom encounter in the forging of narratives of history, truth, and justice. In the case of Milošević and other defendants, the attempt to uncover events that might unambiguously indicate involvement in a criminal enterprise was, and is, picking through a “postmodern” minefield of indeterminacy and doubt.

King, Barnaby.
• Acts of Violence: Theatre of Resistance and Relief in the Colombian War Zone
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  Subject Headings:
  • Vergara, Felipe. Kilele.
  • Massacres -- Colombia -- Chocó.
  • Theater -- Colombia.
  Abstract:

  In May 2002, 119 people were killed in a church in the remote Colombian province of Chocó. The Afro-Colombian communities of Chocó, caught in the middle of a savage armed conflict, are the subject of Felipe Vergara’s new play, Kilele. Kilele toured the river communities on the Atrato River that inspired the play. What is the role and responsibility of the artist who is trying to offer relief and support resistance within a volatile zone of conflict?

Paterson, Doug.
• Three Stories from the Trenches: The Theatre of the Oppressed in the Midst of War
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  Subject Headings:
  • Theater -- Political aspects -- Israel.
  • Theater -- Political aspects -- Liberia.
  • Theater -- Political aspects -- Iraq -- Baghdad.
  • War and theater.
  Abstract:

  From Israel, Liberia, and Iraq, where conflict and war are the rule, come stories about performances and workshops in the tradition of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. The author found both strengths and limitations in Forum Theatre.

Kim, Suk-Young.
• Gulag, the Musical: Performing Trauma in North Korea through Yoduk Story
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  Subject Headings:
  • Seong-san, Jeong. Yoduk story.
  • Musical theater -- Korea (North)
  • Theater -- Political aspects -- Korea (North)

Pieces

Muñoz, José Esteban.
• Performing the State of Exception: Coco Fusco’s Operation Atropos and A Room of One’s Own
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  Subject Headings:
  • Fusco, Coco. Operation Atropos [video]
  • Fusco, Coco. Room of one’s own [performance]
  • Military interrogation.
  • Theater -- Political aspects.
  Abstract:

  Fusco’s monologue addresses the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. The piece is staged as a briefing by an intelligence officer who rationalizes the use of sexual harassment by female interrogators of Islamic fundamentalist detainees.

Fusco, Coco.
• Artist’s Statement
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  Subject Headings:
  • Fusco, Coco. Room of one’s own [performance]
  • Theater -- Political aspects.

Fusco, Coco.
Ritz, Mike.
• Theatre as Discipline: Performing Military Interrogation: An Interview with Mike Ritz
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  Subject Headings:
  • Ritz, Mike -- Interviews.
  • Soldiers -- United States -- Interviews.
  • Military interrogation.

Rana, Yasmine Beverly.
• Blackened Windows: from The War Zone Is My Bed
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  Subject Headings:
  • Drama.
  Abstract:

  Behind a blackened window in Kabul, Laila, a widow, seeks solace in sex while earning her living as a prostitute. She and her lover Ash find refuge from the violence, loss, and fear that is their daily lives under the Taliban.

Saneh, Lina.
Mroué, Rabih.
• Biokhraphia
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  Subject Headings:
  • Drama.
  Abstract:

  This mockumentary in the form of a self-interview takes a sidelong glance at the role of the artist in Lebanon, a country torn apart by years of civil strife and war.

  Critical Acts

  This issue’s Critical Acts focuses on “war and other bad shit” in terms of censorship, immigration, and art as a form of political protest and recovery. In “Habeas Corpus,” Ann Pellegrini uses Sally Field’s censored Emmy-acceptance speech to exemplify the Bush administration’s privatization of mourning as a means “to bind us to acts of fatal violence against an objectified and dehumanized ‘enemy.’” In her account of Luigi Nono’s The Forest Is Young and Full of Life, Judy Lochhead examines the possibility of music as activism, noting how history is recycled from the Vietnam War to today. William Bowling and Rachel Carrico describe how art heals in Lakeviews, part of a post-Katrina project. Guillermo Gómez-Peña rages against “border hysteria,” when the “War on Terror” becomes a “war on difference.”
  
  
  Pellegrini, Ann, 1964-
  • Habeas Corpus: Behold the Body
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    Subject Headings:
    • Iraq War, 2003-
    • Grief.
  Lochhead, Judith Irene.
  • On Recent Performances of Luigi Nono’s The Forest Is Young and Full of Life
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    Subject Headings:
    • Nono, Luigi. Floresta é jovem e cheja de vida [performance]
    • Azar, Habib, dir.
    • International Contemporary Ensemble.
    • Performance Space 122.
  Bowling, William.
  Carrico, Rachel.
  • Lakeviews: A Bus Tour As a Vehicle for Regrowth in New Orleans
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    Subject Headings:
    • Lakeviews, a sunset bus tour: performance, art, music, and food [performance]
    • HOME, New Orleans?
  Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.
  • Border Hysteria and the War against Difference
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    Subject Headings:
    • United States -- Emigration and immigration.
    • Aliens -- United States -- Social conditions.

  Books

  Ferrari, Rossella.
  • Significant Other: Staging the American in China (review)
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    Subject Headings:
    • Conceison, Claire, 1965- Significant other: staging the American in China.
    • Americans -- China.
  McGinley, Paige.
  • Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (review)
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    Subject Headings:
    • Dolan, Jill, 1957- Utopia in performance: finding hope at the theater.
    • One-person shows (Performing arts)
  Gotman, Kélina.
  • Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (review)
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    Subject Headings:
    • Buckland, Theresa, ed. Dancing from past to present: nation, culture, identities.
    • Dance -- History.
  Mastraccio, Carla.
  • Performing Consumers: Global Capital and Its Theatrical Seduction (review)
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    Subject Headings:
    • Wickstrom, Maurya. Performing consumers: global capital and its theatrical seductions.
    • Stores, Retail -- Psychological aspects.
  
  
  

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