Theatre History Studies 2018, Vol. 37

List of Illustrations

Introduction by Sara Freeman

Part I: Studies in Theatre History

Meyerhold and the Revolution: A Reading through Henri Lefebvre’s Theories on “Everyday Life” by Stefan Aquilina

“Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce”: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon by Vivian Appler

Kate Soffel’s Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden’s Wife to Criminal Actress by Kristi Good

Staging Ajax’s Suicide: A Historiography by Peter A. Campbell

Part II: Rousing Experiences: Theatre, Politics, And Change

Introduction To The Special Section by Brian E. G. Cook

Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and the Consequences of Staging the Colonial Gaze by Megan Lewis

Taking the Theatre to the People: Performance Sponsorship and Regulation in Mussolini’s Italy by Patricia Gaborik

To Image and to Imagine: Walid Raad, Rabih Mroué, and the Arab Spring by Ilinca Todoruţ And Anthony Sorge

Where Has the Political Theatre in Israel Gone? Rethinking the Concept of Political Theatre Today by Shulamith Lev-Aladgem

“Equal Rights by All Means!”: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of the US and UK Franchise Movements by Christine Woodworth

“Why I Wrote the Phyllis Wheatley Pageant-Play”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bicentennial Activism by Lurana Donnels O’Malley

The Lasting Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame by Juliet Guzzetta

Chavez Ravine: Culture Clash and the Political Project of Rewriting History by Ashley E. Lucas

Part III: Essay From The Conference

The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay

The Heavy Lifting: Resisting the Obama Presidency’s Neoliberalist Conceptions of the American Dream in Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Noe Montez

Part IV: Book Reviews

Jonah Salz, A History of Japanese Theatre reviewed by Peter Campbell

Fiona Coleman Coffrey, Political Acts: Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921–2012 reviewed by Penelope Cole

Jeffrey Sweet, What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing reviewed by Matt Fotis

Stefan Aquilina And Jonathan Pitches, Eds., Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across Continents reviewed by Mayhill Fowler

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America reviewed by Andrew Gibb

Paul Ibell, Tennessee Williams reviewed by Jeff Grace

Cheryl Black And Jonathan Shandell, Eds., Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912–1945 reviewed by Beck Holden

Sharon Ammen, May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy reviewed by Rhona Justice-Malloy

Robin O. Warren, Women on Southern Stages, 1800–1865: Performance, Gender and Identity in a Golden Age of American Theater reviewed by Karin Maresh

Lisa A. Freeman, Antitheatricality and the Body Public reviewed by Shawna Mefferd Kelty

William Paul, When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film reviewed by Wes D. Pearce

Bernth Lindfors, Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855–1867 reviewed by Dan Venning

Dennis Barnett, DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook reviewed by C. Drew Vidal

Books Received

Contributors