Fall 1990
Volume V
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES AND STUDIES
Is The Body of Dance Sexed?
Randy Martin 7
Reading Scenic Writing: Barthes, Brecht, and Theatre Photography
Jim Carmody 25
“A Kind Mistress is the Good Old Cause”: The Gender of the Heir
in Marriage à la Mode
Laura Rosenthal 39
Sight and Insight: Stage Pictures in Hedda Gabler 49
Kay Unruh Des Roches
The Idea of Place in The Contractor
Geoff Pywell 69
Translation and Mise-en-Scène: The Example of French Translation
of Shakespeare
Leanore Lieblein 81
The Harmony of the Horrorscape: A Perspective on The Cenci
Daniel Davy 95
Genet’s Violent, Subjective Split Into the Theatre of Lacan’s Three Orders
Mark Pizzato 115
Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the Politics of Simulation: Two Plays
Erik MacDonald 131
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews 153
Books Received 173
SUPPLEMENT:
PERFORMANCE ART/THEORY/ART/THEORY
edited by Marsha McMann Paludan
Introduction
Marsha McMann Paludan 181
Performance Art: Problems of Description and Evaluation
Xerxes Mehta 187
Mobilizing Communities for Change: Suzanne Lacy’s Large-Scale Works
William Peterson 201
Finland: The Road of Poems and Borders
Suzanne Lacy 211
Story Pieces and Performance Fragments
Michael K. Meyers 225
The Body as the Object of Modern Performance
Jon Erickson 231
A Performance in Five Chapters
Tony Allard 247
Getting on the Highways: Taking Responsibility for the Culture in the ’90s
Linda Frye Burnham 265
Notes and Observations of Roger Shimomura’s Trans-Siberian Excerpts
Dennis Christilles 279
OK . . . So, I Still Believe in This
Betina 287
Philip Glass on Composing for Film and Other Forms: The Case of Koyaanisqatsi
Charles Merrell Berg 301
CORRECTION
Krapp’s Last Tape: A New Reading
Lois Gordon 327