Recently added articles from The Journal of American Drama and Theatre:
ECO-EPIC THEATRE: MATERIALITY, ECOLOGY, AND THE MAINSTREAM
Jan 01, 2009; ... [Nature as] metaphor is so integral a feature of the aesthetic of modern realist-humanist drama, that, paradoxically, its implications for a possible ecological theatre are easy to miss. It's very ubiquity renders it invisible.1 The artist who is a realist . . . exposes all the veils and ...
REMEMBERING AND REVENGING THE DEATH OF CHRIST: ADRIENNE KENNEDY'S MOTHERHOOD 2000 AND THE YORK CRUCIFIXION
Jan 01, 2009; ... In Adrienne Kennedy's Motherhood 2000, first performed as a staged reading at the McCarter Theatre's Winter's Tales festival in Princeton, New Jersey in 1994, the central character Mother /Writer recounts and, at the end of the play, re-enacts for the authence her execution of a policeman she ...
HOORAY FOR WHAT!: A GLIMPSE INTO THE GOLDEN AGE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Oct 01, 2008; ... In one office, the agent came sidling out from behind his desk with a silly smirk on his face. He took my hand and hinted that if I would be "nice" to him, he could make contacts in Hollywood that would open doors for me. All the agents had rather creepy hands making me cringe and pull away. I ...
FROM FIRST NIGHTER TO ESSAYIST : THE (DIS)ESTABLISHMENT OF/AND DRAMA CRITIC JOHN MASON BROWN
Oct 01, 2008; ... Comment parler d'une "communication des archives" sans traiter d'abord de l'archive des "moyens de la communication"?1 - Jacques Derrida Archives "contain" nothing. Indeed, if one learns nothing else from searching through the files, documents, correspondence, and accumulated "papers" ...
TAKE A GIANT STEP INTO (AFRICAN) AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: BROADWAY'S FIRST "UNIVERSAL" DRAMA
Oct 01, 2008; ... Take a Giant Step is a landmark in theatre. ... It is a play about Americans. Most of the growing pains that make the life of the chief character so touching and entertaining are common to Americans as a whole. . . . Not that being a Negro in a white community is not a vital factor in the life ...