In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

David A. Blostein, Josette Féral
pp. 533-536
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0048
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Catching the Wind in a Net: The Shortcomings of Existing Methods for the Analysis of Performance

Jure Gantar
pp. 537-546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0080
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Performing Writing: Inscribing Theatre

Michael J. Sidnell
pp. 547-557
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0095
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The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film

Marc Silberman
pp. 558-565
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0015
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With(holding) the Knife: Representing the Unrepresentable (Wo)man in Anna

Rosalind Kerr
pp. 566-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0031
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Theatre as Social Science: A Comparative Study of Eugenio Barba's Barter Performances and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Ian Watson
pp. 574-584
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0046
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Towards an International Theatre

Rosette C. Lamont
pp. 585-598
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0061
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Performing the Self

Marvin Carlson
pp. 599-608
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0075
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Performing Race: Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror

Janelle Reinelt
pp. 609-617
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0090
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Body Politic(s): the Actor as Mask in the Théâtre du Soleil's Les Atrides and La Ville Parjure

Brian Singleton
pp. 618-625
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0009
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The Lake of Seduction: Body, Acting, and Voice in Hélène Cixous's Portrait de Dora

Erella Brown
pp. 626-649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0025
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Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod: History and Her Story on the Stage

Laura Ginters
pp. 650-667
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0040
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Shifting Through Space-Time: A Chronotopic Analysis of Peter Sellars' Don Giovanni

Terry Donovan Smith
pp. 668-679
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0055
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Blotting and the Line of Beauty: On Performances by Botho Strauss and Peter Handke

Alfred Nordmann
pp. 680-697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0069
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What does Chaos Theory have to do with Art?

Dean Wilcox
pp. 698-711
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0084
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Book Reviews

Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance ed. by J. Ellen Gainor (review)

Joanne Tompkins
pp. 712-713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0003
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Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada by Cynthia Zimmerman (review)

Paula Sperdakos
pp. 713-715
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0019
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Feminist Theaters in the U.S.A.: Staging Women's Experience by Charlotte Canning (review)

Ellen Donkin
pp. 715-717
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0034
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British Realist Theatre: The New Wave in Its Context, 1956-1965 by Stephen Lacey (review)

Paul Haxo
pp. 717-718
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0049
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Theater in Israel ed. by Linda Ben-Zvi (review)

Hanna Scolnicov
pp. 718-720
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0063
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Conversations With (and About) Beckett by Mel Gussow (review)

Elizabeth Klaver
pp. 720-721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0077
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Beckett On and On ... ed. by Lois Oppenheim and Marius Buning (review)

Katharine Worth
pp. 721-722
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0092
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Peter Brook by Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves (review)

Malcolm Page
pp. 722-724
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0011
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The Inner Strength of Opposites: O'Neill's Novelislic Drama and the Melodramatic Imagination by Kurt Eisen (review)

Michael Hinde
pp. 724-726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0027
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Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past by Susan Bennett (review)

Amy S. Green
pp. 726-728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0042
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Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early-Twentieth-Century British Culture by Amy Koritz (review)

Libby Smigel
pp. 728-729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0057
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Contributors

pp. 730-732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0071
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Contents of Volume XXXIX

pp. 733-739
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1996.0086
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