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{"title":"Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation By Julius B. Fleming Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2022; pp. v + 301. $89 cloth, $29 paper, $29 e-book.","authors":"J. Mahmoud","doi":"10.1017/s0040557422000357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557422000357","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 2022, residents of Jackson, Mississippi had been waiting more than a month to access clean water. Shocking (to some), this easily preventable infrastructural failure took place in Mississippi’s capital and most populous and majority-Black city. In Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation, Julius B. Fleming Jr. theorizes the practice of making Black people wait for progress, full citizenship, and humanity. “This race-based structure of temporal violence,” he conceptualizes in the Introduction, “is black patience” (6). Rather than a virtue, Fleming etymologically excavates the Latin root of patience —“suffering,” a concept rarely theorized with attention to race (9–10)—to frame how from “slave ship” to “auction block” to “those who were inundated by calls to ‘go slow’ in the Civil Rights Movement, waiting has routinely been weaponized as a technology of anti-black violence and civic exclusion” (1). As the early 1960s temporally frame Black Patience, Fleming foregrounds Eisenhower’s 1950s presidency, during which millions of dollars were ushered to birth NASA while, concurrently, Eisenhower promoted waiting for racial progress; one 1958 newspaper headline read “Eisenhower Bids Negroes Be Patient about Rights” (7). Though Black Patience could exist primarily as an exacting work of political and critical theory, it instead flourishes in rich analyses of early 1960s Black theatrical practices that confront Black patience. Theatre artists, including Amiri Baraka, Duke Ellington, and Lorraine Hansberry, “used the theatrical stage to wrest black people from the violent enclosures of black patience” (38). Fleming also uncovers how civil rights activists engaged in dialogues with theatre’s epistemologies, such as Fannie Lou Hamer’s reaction to a 1964 production of Waiting for Godot in Ruleville, Mississippi: “You can’t sit around waiting” she told the audience at intermission (1). Thus, across Black Patience, Fleming deftly argues for what he coins Afro-presentism. This “radical structure of racial time” (26) was variously deployed","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"64 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48990335","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":"The Race for Rehabilitation: Sign-Mime, the National Theatre of the Deaf, and Cold War Internationalism","authors":"Patrick McKelvey","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000540","url":null,"abstract":"In 1967, the US Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) awarded $331,000 to the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Foundation to fund a new company, the National Theatre of the Deaf. Endowing such an enterprise was bold, but not entirely unprecedented for this federal agency tasked with restoring disabled Americans to productive employment. Founded in 1920, the federal–state vocational rehabilitation program, or VR, ascended to institutional and ideological prominence during World War II and maintained this position well into the 1960s and beyond. VR distinguished itself not only through positing competitive employment as the solution to disabled Americans’ dependence on the state, but the specific means through which it would restore the disabled to productivity: the multidisciplinary expertise of physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and rehabilitation counselors who collectively sought to render rehabilitants employable through a series of therapeutic interventions. Whereas disability activists focused on combatting the structural barriers disabled workers experienced in the labor market, “rehabilitationists” emphasized the imperative for disabled people to acclimate to existing work environments through individual physical and psychological transformation.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"64 1","pages":"49 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43435693","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":"Postdramatic Theatre and Form Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. Methuen Drama Engage. London: Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. xi + 266. $115.00 cloth, $40.95 paper, $36.85 e-book.","authors":"Sebastian X Samur","doi":"10.1017/s0040557422000242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557422000242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"294 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41467281","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":"Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific By Diana Looser. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. 358, 31 illustrations. $80 cloth, $64.95 e-book.","authors":"N. Hyland","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000266","url":null,"abstract":"The whakataukī, or Māori proverb, He waka eke noa—“We are all in the waka [canoe] together”—evolved as a kind of mantra, or catchphrase, for the collective commitment and resilience of the population of Aotearoa/New Zealand during the global COVID-19 pandemic; as a “Team of Five Million” we were “all in this together.” The co-option of an Indigenous worldview as a national positionality was not only utopian; it also operated as a form of gaslighting—an enforced performance of oceanic unity when the reality was widespread disenfranchisement and increasing inequity for Māori. With a more critical motivation, Diana Looser’s Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific also adopts the metaphor of the waka/vaka to evoke the mobility and diversity of Pacific citizens traversing within and across islandscapes. Looser’s monograph explores “how cultural and artistic performance highlights the ways that the millions of people who inhabit and descend from the Pacific Ocean navigate the environmental, economic, and military exigencies of the contemporary moment” (1–2). Articulated through a mediating paradigm she calls “transpasifika,” Looser employs various intercultural and performance studies theories to address a perceived dearth of performance praxis and critical theory on contemporary work in the Pacific region (3). Looser espouses the notion of etak from the Caroline Islands: a seafarer who occupies a steady, “conceptually immobile” canoe on course within a sea of “moving islands” (3–4). This performative trope, Looser suggests, usefully describes “Pacific creative artists who maintain control of their projects as they weather the vicissitudes of collaboration, funding, and production in local and global contexts” (4).","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"274 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41475063","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":"Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England Edited by Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin. Cultures of Play. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021; pp. 332. $136 cloth, €108.99 e-book.","authors":"Nora L. Corrigan","doi":"10.1017/S004055742200028X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S004055742200028X","url":null,"abstract":"digital projects once they are complete, and whether digital scholars should also be programmers (Escobar Varela votes yes—at least somewhat). I found Chapter 8, “The Imperative of Open and Sustainable Data” particularly useful in its advice that scholars determine which components of a project should be saved and how, rather than trying to preserve a project across inevitable platform and software changes. Sharing data is critical “to allow others to verify our results, to enable other researchers to combine our data with their own datasets to ask new questions, and, equally important, for use in training courses” (170). Escobar Varela cautions, however, that “sharing without preservation is meaningless” (164). But what does it mean to preserve digital projects? Escobar Varela advises readers to identify “the data, the data models, and the visualizations and interfaces worth keeping for posterity” (174), while recognizing that the theorization of ephemerality in performance studies equips the field both to understand and to value the temporary nature of much digital inquiry. This chapter is vital reading for scholars, graduate advisors, and administrators who might find themselves in the position of overseeing, advocating for, or explaining digital projects and who thus need a concrete understanding of the challenges specific to digital scholarship. With its impressive survey of scholarly projects, methods, and debates, Theater as Data is an important text for everyone working at the intersections of the digital humanities and theatre, dance, and performance studies.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"286 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49059733","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 63 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"Rebecca Struch","doi":"10.1017/s0040557422000199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557422000199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"f1 - f6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772911","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":"Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism By Scott Magelssen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020; pp. xii + 192, 12 illustrations. $75 cloth, $29.95 paper, $29.95 e-book.","authors":"Tony Perucci","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"282 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48796030","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":"Actor Training in Anglophone Countries: Past, Present, and Future By Peter Zazzali. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 2022; pp. xxii + 229, 34 illustrations. $160 cloth, $48.95 e-book.","authors":"D. Cullen","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000308","url":null,"abstract":"dated; it recalls “postcolonial” analyses that attempt to validate the worth of othered artists through inaccessible accounts of their work. The postcoloniality of this volume—including its wielding of the contentious term “intercultural”—not only discounts a dominant local trend of fiery, urgent, culturally specific work on regional decolonization, but also takes away what it means—or at least, what it feels like—to embody Oceania. A lack of engagement in this book with contemporary Indigenous conceptions of family, gender, sexuality, and Pasifika youth identities —perhaps an effect of writing from outside our region—overlooks other exciting recent works, such as that of FAFSWAG, the queer, Indigenous, interdisciplinary arts collective based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa. If transpasifika performance needs a poster child, FAFSWAG should be it. As Looser reinforces, allyship remains important and vital to ensuring the international dissemination of our work. But there is folly in writing about us without us: If we can’t see ourselves, are we really there? In short, we are not in this waka together, and though our courses might intersect, our destinations remain distinct.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"276 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46625099","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":"Blindness, Excrement, and Abjection in the Theatre: ASTR Presidential Address, 30 October 2021","authors":"Marla Carlson","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000345","url":null,"abstract":"As most of my human contact became restricted to the Zoom screen in spring 2020, I discovered a serious limit to my capacity for looking. I also began finding it difficult to read. A ten-month headache taught me to stop taking ibuprofen and learn to manage tensions around my eyes and head as well as to shift roughly half of my reading to screenreaders and audio books. The need to restructure my own practices of seeing refocused my interest in theatre's engagement of the senses at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed people's ability to smell, prompted them to hoard toilet paper, and created a U.S. boom in bidet purchases. These personal and cultural developments coincided with revived metaphors of blindness on the pandemic stage. This article begins with a brief discussion of The Blind, an “immersive audio/visual meditation journey” that Here Arts Center produced in 2021, and then centers on Blindness, the “socially distanced sound installation” produced by the Donmar Warehouse in 2020 followed by an international tour. I wonder at the reiteration of blindness as a tragic trope, seemingly unaffected by progress in disability rights, equity, and inclusion. I wonder at the appeal of wielding any contagious illness as metaphor during a global pandemic. My analysis turns particularly upon the relation between blindness and excrement in José Saramago's novel Blindness and the effect of cleansing the theatrical installation of any shit as well as the even more surprising choice to eliminate the voices of the blind characters. A detour through medieval French farces that link blindness and excrement reveals submerged tropes at play in these performative responses to fear of diminished capacity and diminished control—everything that individuals and societies cast out in order to maintain what we call health, whether literal or metaphorical.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"257 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990809","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 63 issue 3 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0040557422000321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557422000321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46524896","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}