In this Issue

Table of Contents

“Performing Our Pain or Performing Through It”: Contextualizing #MeToo

pp. vii-xiii
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Essays

On the Couch: Casting, Cruel Optimism, and Memory Work

Kirstin Smith
pp. 1-18
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Resisting Nonperformativity: Emma Sulkowicz’s Challenges to Victimhood

Megan Shea
pp. 19-39
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Erotic Returns: Sleeping with the Ancestors in Contemporary Plays about Sexual Violence

Kari Barclay
pp. 41-59
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Whipping the Black Body in Delaware

Harvey Young
pp. 61-79
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Performance Reviews
Joshua Williams, Editor

South Africa’s National Arts Festival (review)

Bryan W. Schmidt
pp. 81-85
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The Breach by Naomi Wallace (review)

Erica Stevens Abbitt
pp. 85-87
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The Cuban Vote by Carmen Pelaez (review)

Horacio Sierra
pp. 87-89
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Potus by Selina Fillinger, and: For Colored Girls … by Ntozake Shange (review)

Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
pp. 89-93
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Trouble In Mind by Alice Childress, and: Wedding Band by Alice Childress (review)

Melissa Barton
pp. 93-97
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The Folks at Home by R. Eric Thomas, and: Dream House by Eliana Pipes (review)

Natka Bianchini
pp. 97-101
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Las Hermanas De Manolete by Alicia Montesquiu, and: Entre Sevilla y Triana (review)

Duncan Wheeler
pp. 101-104
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Le Misanthrope by Molière, and: Le Malade Imaginaire by Molière, and: Le Tartuffe ou L’hypocrite by Molière, and: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière, and: L’avare by Molière (review)

Nancy C. Jones
pp. 104-107
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Book Reviews
Arnab Banerji, Editor

Mnemodrama in Action: An Introduction to the Theatre of Alessandro Fersen by John C. Green (review)

Scott Venters
pp. 109-110
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Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd: The Avant-Garde, Spectator-Ship and Psychoanalysis by Lara Cox (review)

Arka Chattopadhyay
pp. 110-112
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Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists by Michael Malek Najjar (review)

Sarah Fahmy
pp. 112-113
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The Invention of Shakespeare and Other Essays by Stephen Orgel (review)

Fran Teague
pp. 113-114
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Sports Plays ed. by Eero Laine and Broderick Chow (review)

Sharon Mazer
pp. 115-116
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The Life of Training by John Matthews (review)

Garret Camilleri
pp. 116-117
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Sculpting Queer Futures for Survival: Jaishri Abichandani’s Everyday Deities

Kareem Khubchandani
pp. E-1-E-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tj.2023.a899350
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“Telling Our Own Stories”: A Conversation with Writers Melissa Li and Kit Yan

Sean Metzger, Kit Yan, Melissa Li
pp. E-13-E-22
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