Fall 1991
Volume VI
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Author, Authority, and the Pedagogical Scene: Elvire Jouvet 40
Michael Vincent 5
Performing Difference: Brecht, Galileo, and the Regime of Quotations
Robert Miklitsch 15
Texts in Action/Action in Texts: A Case Study in Critical Method
David Z. Saltz 29
The First Critical Assessments of A Streetcar Named Desire; The Streetcar
Tryouts and the Reviewers
Philip C. Kolin 45
When Words Collide: The Stage Direction as Utterance
Patricia A. Suchy 69
PERFORMANCE: Essays, Interviews, Reviews
Drama or Performance Art? An Interview with Ntozake Shange
Serena Anderlini 85
Interview with Ellen Stewart for LaMama Experimental Theatre Club,
December 9, 1989
Bev Ostroska 99
East Berlin Theatre Diary
Leanore Lieblein 107
Play Reviews: Yvonne Shafer, Jeane Luere 125
BOOK REVIEWS
Ralf Erik Remshardt, Brian Rose, Susan Bennett, James Fisher,
Naomi Ritter, Scott Cutler Shershow, Alice Rayner, Ann Marie McEntee 135
SUPPLEMENT:
Censorship, Film History, and Film Theory
Film History/Film Theory: A Search for Common Ground
G. Thomas Poe 155
The “Facts” of the “Censored” Film: Theoretical and History Approaches
Garth Jowett 159
Censorship: An Historical Interpretation
Gregory D. Black 167
Censorship as Textual Ellipsis: A Post-Structuralist Reading of the Censored Film
G. Thomas Poe 187
Textuality and History: Response to Poe and Black
Michael Ryan 209
Self-Regulation and the Classical Hollywood Cinema
Janet Staiger 221
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Research Opportunities in Munich
Yvonne Shafer 235