In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Josette Féral, Jeannette Laillou Savona, E. A. Walker
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0063
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Part I: Written Text and Dramatic Discourse: Theory and Practice

Changed Textual Signs in Modern Theatricality: Gombrowicz and Handke

Wladimir Krysinski, Ruby Cohn
pp. 3-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0077
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Theatre as Semiotic Practice

Joseph Melançon, Paul Perron
pp. 17-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0010
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Didascalies as Speech Act

Jeannette Laillou Savona, Fiona Strachan
pp. 25-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0021
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Jean Vauthier's The Struggling Protagonist: The Problem of Inner Narratives

Karen Laughlin
pp. 36-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0033
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Space and Time in the Plays of Antonine Maillet

Pierre Gobin
pp. 46-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0045
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Part II: Production: From Creator to Audience

The Liberated Performance

Bernard Dort, Barbara Kerslake
pp. 60-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0057
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Armand Gatti on Time, Place, and the Theatrical Event

Jean-Paul Lenin, Nancy Oakes, Pierre Bouillaguet
pp. 69-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0071
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Genet's The Balcony: A 1981 Perspective on a 1979/80 Production

Richard Schechner
pp. 82-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0004
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Nonsemiotic Performance

Michael Kirby
pp. 105-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0017
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Danger Music Number Three

Dick Higgins
p. 112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0028
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From Giorgio Strehler to Victor Garcia

Odette Aslan, Fiona Strachan
pp. 113-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0040
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The Pleasure of the Spectator

Anne Ubersfeld, Pierre Bouillaguet, Charles Jose
pp. 127-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0052
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Part III: Theatricality and Culture

Theatricality in Japan

Masao Yamaguchi, E.A. Walker
pp. 140-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0066
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Theatre as Information-Processing in Western Cultures

Derrick de Kerckhove
pp. 143-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0000
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Part IV: Performance, or the Subversion of Theatricality

"The eye finds no fixed point on which to rest..."

Chantal Pontbriand, C.R. Parsons
pp. 154-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0013
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Common Carrier: Performance by Artists

Philip Monk
pp. 163-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0024
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Performance and Theatricality: The Subject Demystified

Josette Féral, Terese Lyons
pp. 170-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0036
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Book Reviews

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam (review)

Josette Féral, Barbara Kerslake
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0048
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Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape ed. by James Knowlson (review)

Enoch Brater
pp. 184-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0060
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José López Rubio by Marion Peter Holt (review)

Erminio G. Neglia
pp. 185-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0074
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Contributors

pp. 187-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1982.0007
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