THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000138
Nicholas Utzig
{"title":"Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II By Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021; pp. x + 290, 11 illustrations. $35.00 cloth, $35 e-book.","authors":"Nicholas Utzig","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"244 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48539461","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000060
Ricardo Rocha
{"title":"Greasers, Bandidos, and Squatters under Duress: Containing Latinidad in Mid-Nineteenth-Century California","authors":"Ricardo Rocha","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000060","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of this “colonial cringe” is an enduring and debilitating performance anxiety on a global stage.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"183 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41425025","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000187
Sarah Saddler
{"title":"A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present Edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp. cix + 519. $105 cloth, e-book $119.99.","authors":"Sarah Saddler","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"254 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46625788","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000175
E. Turley
{"title":"The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, and Nietzsche By Kristin Gjesdal. Oxford University Press. Oxford: United Kingdom, 2020; pp. xvii + 219, 8 illustrations. $74 cloth.","authors":"E. Turley","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000175","url":null,"abstract":"with an Executioner) in Chapter 9, “Archive of the Missing Image”; and, from the post-Jedwabne era, Tadeusz Słobodianek’s Nasza Klasa (Our Class) and Krzysztof Warlikowski’s (A)pollonia inChapter 10, “Duplicitous Spectator,Helpless Spectator.” The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust joins a limited but growing number of English-language texts that examine Polish theatre as a broad subject, both chronologically and generically. Niziołek’s study provides English-language readership an impressive exploration of the specificities of postwar Polish spectatorship, with audiences confronted by a wide range of performances that cut through the symbolic norms of Polish wartime narratives. For readers coming to this work without advanced knowledge of Polish postwar realities and cultural makeup, the book would work best as a whole; the second part of the book relies upon the deep contextual understanding of Polish positionality founded in the first chapters. Chapters in the second part of the book more quickly address theatrical takeaways without dedicating much space to rehashing the historical or political specificities of the moment. That said, the whole text is well worth reading, and presents numerous lesser-known or less critically evaluated theatrical explorations at the intersection of Polishness and Jewishness in the postwar moment.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"252 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41566801","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000114
Ping Fu
{"title":"The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization By Sean Metzger. Indiana University Press. Bloomington: Indiana, 2020; pp. vii + 262, 35 illustrations. $75 cloth, $25 paper, $12.99 e-book.","authors":"Ping Fu","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000114","url":null,"abstract":"scholarly study and training programs. Dumont’s chapter makes a historiographical point by mentioning the subsequent tension between the “intellectual” and the “popular” in contemporary circus arts (189), as if the two terms are anathema to one another. Thus, only when the circus was removed from its original context was it recognized as artistic. Last, Anna-Sophie Jürgens’s essay “Through the Looking Glass: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Circus Studies” (Chapter 16) performs a literary review of the imaginative scholarship taking place across various disciplines, including the sciences, literary studies, humor studies, and disability studies. Through her exploration, she demonstrates the vitality of the field of circus studies. For example, neuroscientists have investigated the “alteration of cerebral formations” through the complex motor exercises practiced in the circus (245). The editors acknowledge the recent emergence of the field; yet what is missing from the Introduction is a historiographical account of how the circus, its acts, and performers have been written about in the past. As Charles R. Batson and Karen Fricker note in Chapter 15, “circus studies is a field in formation, and as such so are the methods scholars apply in their circus research” (231). With that in mind, what has been circus’s place in the academy, historically speaking? What has constituted the nature, style, and concerns of circus scholarship prior to this entry? What are the lacunae that need to be redressed by the archive? These questions are answered, in part, by the last part of the book, but are left unattended in the Introduction, and might have provided useful context for the Companion’s intervention in the field. Nonetheless, the samplings of studies offered successfully draw the reader’s attention to the promise of circus studies by preparing students to pursue further research into the circus as a big top of manifold opportunities.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"239 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41610295","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000163
R. Moss
{"title":"The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust By Grzegorz Niziołek. Translated by Ursula Phillips. Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance. London: Methuen Drama, 2019; pp. xii + 308, 63 illustrations. $115 cloth, $34.95 paper, $31.45 e-book.","authors":"R. Moss","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"250 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42587756","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}
THEATRE SURVEYPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0040557422000096
Craig Jennex
{"title":"In Concert: Performing Musical Persona By Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021; pp. x + 293, 22 illustrations. $90 cloth, $39.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.","authors":"Craig Jennex","doi":"10.1017/S0040557422000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557422000096","url":null,"abstract":"series is significant. This is a book of theatre historiography that examines some of the foundational concepts of musical theatre in the United States. It is worth noting, however, that this book’s subtitle also promises Rogers will analyze “the politics of bursting into song and dance.” The Song Is You is a historiographical text to be sure, but for Rogers the work of writing history is also the work of exploring how audiences identify with musical theatre performances and how musicals ask us to imitate, desire, and possess the bodies of others, especially those whose experiences we perceive as different from our own. These are political questions, and The Song Is You is a necessary and exciting exploration of these politics, filled with insights and provocations that promise to push the field in important new directions.","PeriodicalId":42777,"journal":{"name":"THEATRE SURVEY","volume":"63 1","pages":"235 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47826064","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}