... the Boards, Seattle, 2014. Photo: Jazzy Photo Public Encounters and Performance Clubs A Forum Compiled by Josh Goulding, Maria Inês Marques, Lynda Paul, and Gavin Whitehead Following the November 2014 Segal Center panel discussion (see “Can We Talk p. 77, in this issue...

... something authentic about medieval perfor- mances. Death by Drama and Other Death by Drama itselfconstitutes an aca- Medieval Urban Legends demic performance ofan unusual and welcome by Jody Enders...

...Patrice Pavis Patrice Pavis Translated by Joel Anderson Staging Calamity Mise-en-scène and Performance at Avignon 2005 Even before the fifty-ninth Avignon Festival began, if one heeded the press or listened to the festival regulars, one thing seemed clear: There would be no...

...Loren Kruger © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Jo Ractliffe’s Inner City Works, Tour Guides of the Inner City, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, 2000. Courtesy of Jo Ractliffe Loren Kruger Letter from Johannesburg Performance and Urban Fabrics...

... activist's emails, letters, and journals. Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 John Houchin Bodily Fear Recent American Performance Controversies In my book Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century, I assert that censors in America ultimately feared that...

...Tom Haas Copyright © by yale/theater 1972 1972 A Director's Notes After a Performance of WOYZECK by Tom Haas Woyzeck is meant to be a hallucinatory nightmare. The terror of a concentration camp is where trapped people-like rats-turn on each other to rip, tear, and eat each...

...David Freedlander David Freedlander surveys a variety of performance events designed to reconfigure the relationships between urban space and urban dwellers in New York City. He describes a burgeoning guerrilla performance culture—from kicklines on the steps of the New York Public Library to...

...Christopher Grobe Books Christopher Grobe Twice Real Marina Abramović and the Performance Archive When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography by James Westcott 2010: MIT Press Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present edited by Klaus Biesenbach 2010: Museum of Modern Art In 1988...

...Joseph Roach © 2012 by Joseph Roach 2012 Joseph Roach A Feeling for Risk Notes on Kinesthetic Empathy and the World Performance Project Discovering as if for the first time that earthquakes thrill the senses and startle the mind, the Eastern seaboard got all shook up...

...Sarah Bay-Cheng In her essay-manifesto, Sarah Bay-Cheng outlines principles for a new historiography of performance taking into account the multiple layers of mediation that surround any experience of live art in the twenty-first century. © 2012 by Sarah Bay-Cheng 2012 Balkan Baroque, created...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky Felton-Dansky proposes a new category of performance called “viral performance,” in which artists use new media and technology to stage politically provocative public hoaxes. These artists disseminate tantalizing fictions, then reveal the truths beneath them, as a strategy for...

...Alexis Soloski In this forum, critic Alexis Soloski gathers a range of contemporary theater artists, with an array of approaches to fact-based performance, to discuss the potential, integrity, and complications of documentary theater. Unnatural Acts, Classic Stage Company, New York, 2011...

...Bertie Ferdman Cuidades Paralelas building, Buenos Aires, 2010. Photo: Lorena Fernandez Bertie Ferdman A New Journey through Other Spaces Contemporary Performance beyond “Site-Specific” It is only in a place and at a time where we do not expect anything to happen that...

...Shonni Enelow Books Shonni Enelow The Literary Life of Performance Emergency index’s Performance Documentation Project Emergency index 2011 edited by Yelena Gluzman and Matvei Yankelevich 2012: Ugly Duckling Presse “Amidst unsuspecting midday lunchers and farmers market shoppers...

...Elise Morrison Nineteen Eighty-Four, by Surveillance Camera Players, Fourteenth Street/Seventh Avenue subway station, New York City, 1998. Photo: Courtesy of Surveillance Camera Players Elise Morrison User-­U n friendly Surveillance Art as Participatory Performance...

...Shawn-Marie Garrett Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater Edited by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor 1999: University of Michigan Press © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000...

...Jonathan Kalb © 2001 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2001 Theater 31.3-03 Kalb.sh 10/16/01 10:57 AM Page 12 Theater 31.3-03 Kalb.sh 10/16/01 10:57 AM Page 13 Jonathan Kalb Documentary Solo Performance The...

....” Photo: Tamiment Library, New York University. Theater 31.3-11 Oren.sh 10/16/01 11:47 AM Page 139 Claudia Orenstein Agitational Performance, Now and Then At the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle...

...Cyrus Hamlin © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Cyrus Hamlin Faust in Performance: Peter Stein’s Production of Goethe’s Faust, Parts 1 and 2 So in this narrow house of boarded space Creation’s fullest circle go to pace, And walk with leisured speed...

...Art Spiegelman; Phillip Johnston; Jean Randich © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 The Ephemeral Page Meets The Ephemeral stage: Comix in Performance Art Spiegelman, Phillip Johnston, and Jean Randich, Interviewed by Alice Rebecca Moore Art Spiegelman’s...