The seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this volume includes new research on contemporary plays by Anne Washburn, Will Arbery, Matthew Lopez, Anna Deveare Smith and Qui Nguyen.
The seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this volume includes new research on contemporary plays by Anne Washburn, Will Arbery, Matthew Lopez, Anna Deveare Smith and Qui Nguyen.
Amy Muse is a professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has written a book on Sarah Ruhl as well as essays on drama, intimacy, and travel.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface A Conversation with Anne Washburn Laura Snyder "Shakespeare's #MeToo Play"? Shakespeare and Sexual Politics on the Contemporary Stage Lee Conderacci The Embodied Cartoon: The Move Toward Universal in Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play Ian Downes The Play in the Bubble: Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Political Isolation in the Time of Covid Bess Rowen "It takes a lot of time": Immediacy, Crisis, and the Narrativity of Health in Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy Jeffrey M. Brown Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance: A Queer Adaptation of Forster's Howards End David Pellegrini Rap Battles with David Henry Hwang: The Playwright's Voice in Qui Nguyen's The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent Dan Bacalzo Including the Excluded: Dramatizing Historical Struggle Narratives Reveals Science's Hidden Figures Denise Gillman, Danielle Hartman, and Shannon McNeely A Distant Princess and a Mystic's Well: Forerunners of Cyrano's Tragicomedy Jeffrey B. Loomis An Actress Prepares: How Typecasting for Women in Theatre Perpetuates Cycles of Trauma Sarah Elizabeth Keyes Power Dynamics in Theatre Education: How Classroom Practices Act as Psychological Grooming for Damaging Systems in Professional Theatre Hilary M.K. Moore The Body Electric: Using Neuroscience and Theater to Reclaim Empathy in the Twenty-First Century Tracy Bersley Review of Literature: Selected Books Kevin Winkler. Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune Jay Malarcher Henry Schvey. Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams Benjamin P. Stanford Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir, eds. Performance in a Pandemic Maria-Elena Doyle Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens. Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube Verna A. Foster Chantal Bilodeau and Thomas Peterson, eds. Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis Ben Stasny Anne Bogart. The Art of Resonance Thomas L. Rothacker Miriam M. Chirico and Kelly Younger, eds. How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays Deana Nichols Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface A Conversation with Anne Washburn Laura Snyder "Shakespeare's #MeToo Play"? Shakespeare and Sexual Politics on the Contemporary Stage Lee Conderacci The Embodied Cartoon: The Move Toward Universal in Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play Ian Downes The Play in the Bubble: Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Political Isolation in the Time of Covid Bess Rowen "It takes a lot of time": Immediacy, Crisis, and the Narrativity of Health in Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy Jeffrey M. Brown Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance: A Queer Adaptation of Forster's Howards End David Pellegrini Rap Battles with David Henry Hwang: The Playwright's Voice in Qui Nguyen's The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent Dan Bacalzo Including the Excluded: Dramatizing Historical Struggle Narratives Reveals Science's Hidden Figures Denise Gillman, Danielle Hartman, and Shannon McNeely A Distant Princess and a Mystic's Well: Forerunners of Cyrano's Tragicomedy Jeffrey B. Loomis An Actress Prepares: How Typecasting for Women in Theatre Perpetuates Cycles of Trauma Sarah Elizabeth Keyes Power Dynamics in Theatre Education: How Classroom Practices Act as Psychological Grooming for Damaging Systems in Professional Theatre Hilary M.K. Moore The Body Electric: Using Neuroscience and Theater to Reclaim Empathy in the Twenty-First Century Tracy Bersley Review of Literature: Selected Books Kevin Winkler. Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune Jay Malarcher Henry Schvey. Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams Benjamin P. Stanford Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir, eds. Performance in a Pandemic Maria-Elena Doyle Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens. Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube Verna A. Foster Chantal Bilodeau and Thomas Peterson, eds. Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis Ben Stasny Anne Bogart. The Art of Resonance Thomas L. Rothacker Miriam M. Chirico and Kelly Younger, eds. How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays Deana Nichols Index
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