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{"title":"Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat","authors":"Deniz Başar","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000508","url":null,"abstract":"appears amid discussions of the common use of the term “bourgeois” as a pejorative in contemporary (bourgeois) culture. Disidentification thus describes the author’s (and perhaps reader’s) own sense of their relationship to the term “bourgeois.” In subsequent chapters we find that the figure of disidentification may in fact be intrinsic to theatre (insofar as the use of theatre as a machine of ideological reproduction is prone to failure) (73), and implicit in the emergence of the trunkmaker and related figures (137). It serves as a marker of ideal subjects of capitalism (154), but also as one way to escape interpellation as such an ideal subject (177). Disidentification is innate to bourgeois subjectivity insofar as it reiterates the distance at the center of that subjectivity, but it might also be cultivated to encourage more bourgeois subjects to resist interpellation as good subjects of capitalism. Surprisingly, the book does not directly engage with other approaches to disidentification in performance studies, especially José Esteban Muñoz’s Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) which offers a theory of precisely some of those subjectivities the author frets he may be excluding by extrapolating from his own subjectivity. The absence is hardly fatal and points to ways in which Scenes from Bourgeois Life will have a significant impact on conversations across the disciplines of theatre and performance studies. Scenes from Bourgeois Life provides an account of the historically contingent mode of spectatorship that remains dominant today, an account that must be reckoned with by any effort to theorize the capacity of theatre to make political subjects, to impact its audiences, or to play a role in addressing the oppressions it so often depicts.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"130 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49131937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution By Yann Robert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; pp. viii + 331, 1 illustration. $79.95 cloth, $75.95 e-book.","authors":"Cecilia A. Feilla","doi":"10.1017/S004055742100048X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S004055742100048X","url":null,"abstract":"ideas and landmarks in theatre and political economy since the 1850s: nineteenthcentury industrialization, the waxing and waning postwar UK welfare state, Irish peace in the 1990s, North American border panics after 9/11, and austerity politics in the 2010s. In all of these frameworks, McKinnie sees and communicates clearly how the mechanics of theatremaking make political and economic meaning as much as, if not more than, the theatrical performance.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49179449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond By Catherine M. Cole. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2020, pp. xviii + 286, 18 illustrations. $85 cloth, $39.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.","authors":"E. Charlton","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000429","url":null,"abstract":"For good reason, proscenium staging has fallen out of favor in recent decades. Taken to be a synonym for passivity, its constraints on the theatrical imagination have been largely replaced by a suite of more active, immersive, and site-specific strategies. In performance spaces across the Global South, however, it is not only this rising taste for interaction that has driven the proscenium’s demise. Caught up in the history of colonial power, as Catherine M. Cole notes in Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond, proscenium staging served originally to displace many of those indigenous performance traditions ill-suited to such a comparatively static form. Cole cites, for example, the “more communal” (170) circular stages once common to Congolese dance. We might recall, too, the participatory impulses that historically conditioned performances of praise poetry across southern Africa. In this context, the fading popularity of the proscenium stage has also been understood as vital for the revival of these and many other more kinetic indigenous traditions. In charting the recent rise of live art in countries like South Africa and the DRC, however, Cole is careful to resist the idea of a pristine return to the precolonial past, whether onstage or in society at large. Attuned to the entangled, often intractable afterlives of racial injustice not just in Africa but across the globe, her latest book explores instead the unresolved wrongs that often remain long after the basic architecture of white, colonial power has been dismantled. This is not to give up on the possibility of “a world that is otherwise,” as Cole puts it (220), echoing decolonial thinkers like Walter Mignolo. But neither is it to assume that simple strategies like a return to circular staging can perform theatre’s decolonization. Rather, Cole’s critique attempts to “dwell in complexity” by enduring the “lack of resolution” that necessarily stalks the pursuit of justice after colonialism (32). As such, in this latest study, she actively extends the sense of political irresolution that animates her","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"115 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56835275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scenes from Bourgeois Life By Nicholas Ridout. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020; pp. xii + 211. $70 cloth, $54.95 e-book.","authors":"J. Ball","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000491","url":null,"abstract":"the burgeoning field of reenactment studies by adding significant insight into the eighteenth-century origins of the form and its relation to the performance of justice. It is a pity the author does not engage with Rebecca Schneider’s influential work on the topic, as dialogue with her main terms and ideas would have broadened the implications of his excellent analyses and arguments. One also wonders how other high-profile cases of the period, such as the trial of Charlotte Corday or the Kornmann affair, might fit into the book’s narrative. In the final section, the argument occasionally becomes repetitive, and its bold claims of reversals at times mask subtler moves that are equally or more interesting for being so. Theseminor points aside, Robert’s book is a tour de force thatwill be required reading for anyone working on theatre and history of the French Enlightenment and Revolution. The book deserves a wide readership among scholars of contemporary theatre, theatre history, and performance studies as well, especially those interested in reenactment and the interconnection of theatre and justice. Revealing how judicial procedures and outcomes both shaped and were shaped by theatre in the late eighteenth century, Dramatic Justice also reminds us that, for good and bad, our own culture of court TV, show trials, and legal dramas has its roots in the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"128 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49427331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Counterpublic Goods in Interesting Times: Transitional Subjectivities Onstage at Highways Performance Space, 1989–1993","authors":"J. Hamera","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000582","url":null,"abstract":"A raging global pandemic handled inadequately and indifferently by the Republican-led US federal government, with Dr. Anthony Fauci in a featured role; an antiracist uprising in response to police brutality; a resurgent political Right fomenting and stoking culture wars; activists’ demands for a diverse and equitable art world; increasing fiscal precarity for small, innovative live art spaces; a looming recession; and an escalating housing crisis fueled by accelerating income inequality: welcome to Los Angeles between 1989 and 1993. In this period, AIDS became the leading cause of death for US men ages 25–44; ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)/LA called public health infrastructure to account and successfully fought for an AIDS ward at Los Angeles County Hospital. A widely circulated video of Los Angeles Police Department officers viciously beating Black motorist Rodney King, and their subsequent acquittal of criminal charges by a suburban jury, ignited five days of antiracist rebellion. The rising number of unhoused people in Los Angeles was becoming difficult to ignore, though not for the city's, state's, or federal government's lack of trying. “Multiculturalism” became a widely embraced—if sometimes cynically deployed—aesthetic and programming imperative.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"90 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42843401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alongside Slavery's Asides: Reverberations of Edward Young's The Revenge","authors":"Amy B. Huang","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000569","url":null,"abstract":"In an 1847 lecture before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, William Wells Brown stated: “Were I about to tell you the evils of Slavery, to represent to you the Slave in his lowest degradation, I should wish to take you, one at a time, and whisper it to you. Slavery has never been represented; Slavery never can be represented.” In these oft-cited lines, Wells Brown makes a strong claim for the absolute impossibility of representing slavery. But I wish to pause and stay with his earlier suggestion that it might just be possible to tell about slavery in a whisper. Breaking through the fastidiousness of the audience, a whisper can bring the condition of slavery close.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"34 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shooting from Windows: Performing Tactical Lawfulness during Jim Crow","authors":"L. Livingston","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000570","url":null,"abstract":"I think, then, that Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent. That they must harass, debate, petition, give money to court struggles, sit-in, lie-down, strike, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps—and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.—Lorraine Hansberry (1962)","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"63 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45762135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"At-Home Humbugs: Freaks and Fakes in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor Museum","authors":"Michael d'Alessandro","doi":"10.1017/S0040557421000557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557421000557","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1885, a New York Herald journalist rushed to Madison Square Garden for a special reception highlighting Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. A feature of P. T. Barnum's traveling show, Jo-Jo was confounding scientists who had requested a stand-alone inspection of the mysterious attraction. Accordingly, the reporter provided an anthropological description of the boy: “He stands about five feet high. . . . His whole body is covered by a very thick growth of long, tow colored hair . . . and the peculiar formation of his head [is] very suggestive of the Russian dachshund.” At first, Jo-Jo appeared docile, but as the scientists prodded him more and more, he started “snarling, showing his three canine teeth” and asked his guardian if he could bite the inspectors. Jo-Jo was decidedly not a dog-boy, or not exactly. He was, in fact, a Russian teenager suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition causing excessive hair growth all over the body, including nearly every surface area of the face. Barnum had signed him to perform a year earlier, and the boy made quite an auspicious debut. However, Jo-Jo was simply the latest in a long line of supposed hybrid species and exotic curiosities that Barnum had been displaying since midcentury. The famed showman built his name in part by presenting human creation itself as a continual spectrum. Barnum's attractions ranged from live tigers and giraffes to enigmatic simian performers to wax statues of America's degraded lower classes. As much of a draw as he became, even Jo-Jo had to share a bill with Tattooed Hindoo Dwarfs, Hungarian Gypsies, Buddhist Priests, as well as a menagerie of animals including baby elephants, kangaroos, lions, and twenty-foot-long “great sinewy serpents.” But Jo-Jo's specific appeal was tied to his inexplicability. Even given the closer inspection of the dog-faced boy, “none of the physicians present would hazard an opinion as to his ancestry.”","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"3 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42663668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caste as Performance: Ayyankali and the Caste Scripts of Colonial Kerala","authors":"Vivek Narayan","doi":"10.1017/S004055742100020X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S004055742100020X","url":null,"abstract":"The crowded marketplace in Thiruvananthapuram (aka Trivandrum) thronged with people in the late nineteenth century. Men and women clad in white mundu teemed about the busy street buying oil and salt, horseshoes and iron farm implements, coarse cloth, coir rope, jaggery, and palm toddy. The men were mostly bare-chested, though some, unmindful of the sweltering heat, wore white long shirts or an upper-body cloth. While a few young women wore printed blouses, many, particularly the older women, wore no upper-body clothes except for large, beaded necklaces made of red-colored stones. Most people, with the exception of the men who clothed their upper body, walked along the sides of the road, leaving the path clear for the occasional bullock cart. These bullock carts, also known as villuvandi, carried young men-about-town, almost exclusively landowning, upper-caste Nairs. Dressed in a spotless white shirt, white mundu, and matching white turban, the Nair riding his villuvandi assumed the haughty air of a master surveying his subjects; out to observe his inferiors as much as be seen as a superior. These Nairs, and other upper-caste men and women, had the exclusive right of way, on bullock cart or on foot, the right to wear clean white clothes, and, of course, the right to ride a villuvandi. These rights were codified through caste-based rules or norms known as jati maryada, which governed all aspects of social behavior.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"62 1","pages":"272 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S004055742100020X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42709760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TSY volume 62 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0040557421000405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557421000405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48763958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}