Fall 1989
Volume IV
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES AND STUDIES
Stages of Terror
Anthony Kubiak 3
Is Theatre Under Deconstructions? A Retroactive Manifesto in a Language
I Do Not Own
Stratos E. Constantinidis 31
The Reluctant Subject: Kaspar and the Frame of Representation
John H. Lutterbie 53
Canon-fodder: Nietzsche, Jarry, Derrida (The Play of Discourse and the
Discourse of Play)
Stephen Barker 69
New Man to New Woman: Women in Brecht and Expressionism
Della Pollock 85
The Back Side of Myth: Sam Shepard’s Subversion of Mythic Codes
in Buried Child
Steven D. Putzel and Suzanne R. Westfall 109
PERFORMANCE: STUDIES AND COMMENTARY
Theatricality and Empowerment in the Plays of Caryl Churchill
Amilia Howe Kritzer 125
Medusa and the Mother/Bear: The Performance Text of Hélène Cixous’s
L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves
Judith G. Miller 135
Telling Lies and Selling Truth
Hollis Huston 143
Brecht and Brook: The Mahabharata as Epic Theatre
Joseph H. Stodder 151
An Interview with August Wilson
Yvonne Shafer 161
PLAYS IN PERFORMANCE
Marvin Carlson, James Stark, James Fisher, Paulina Shur, John W. Velz 177