...2Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik What do I fear? Myself? There s none else by: Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Shakespeare, Richard III The realpolitiker is as different from the renouncer as can be. Yet he, too, is an antisocial being who holds social norms and relationships hostage...

...CH.13 AT THE CORNER OF CHAOS AND DIVINE / BLACK RITUAL THEATER, PER FOR MANCE, AND POLITICS Nina Angela Mercer We cannot abdicate our culture to those who sit outside of us. We should guard and protect our culture viciously, and work juju on those who screw up. · larry neal I enter here, at the...

...7Queer Theater, Queer Theory LuiS aLfaro S Cuerpo poLitizado Mapping Downtown: The Space of Memory In November 1996, I presented a paper at a Latin/o performance conference at London s Institute of Contemporary Arts that included theorists and per- formers. I was to deliver a paper on Luis Alfaro...

...2 THE THEATER OF LIFE IS ALSO A STAGE OF DEATH Beyond Surface Chauvinism When I would look out across the rooftop of the National Soil Sci- ence Laboratory of igac, I would find myself viewing a mosaic of burnt reds, charcoals, tans, and coffee- colored hues. Tiny mounds of earth were laid out on...