Fall 2006
Volume XXI
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Playing at the Circumference: Towards a Theory of the Theatrical Symbolic
Lance Gharavi 5
Race, Gender, and Disability: Cherríe Moraga’s Bodiless Head
Telory W. Davies 29
Oedipus’s Body and the Riddle of the Sphinx
Rob Baum 45
Language of Blood: Embodied Women’s Experiences in Adrienne Kennedy’s
A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White
Carla J. McDonough 57
PRAXIS
What Gives Musical Theatre Musical Integrity? An Analysis of the Opening
Scene of South Pacific
Edward Green 75
THE FIELD
“The Thought of Performance”: Theatricality, Reference, and Memory in
Herbert Blau
Mária Minich Brewer 97
Meta-enunciative Properties of Dramatic Dialogue: A New View of Metatheatre
and the Work of Sławomir Świontek
Jenn Stephenson 115
Excerpts from Le Dialogue Dramatique et le Metathéâtre by Sławomir Świontek.
Translation by Jenn Stephenson
Sławomir Świontek 129