Fall 1994
Volume IX
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Of Actors and Automata: Hieroglyphics of Modernism
W. B. Worthen 3
Life in a Silken Net: Mourning the Beloved Monstrous in Lydie Breeze
Robert F. Gross 21
Anna Deavere Smith: Perspectives on her Performance within the Context of
Critical Theory
Charles R. Lyons and James C. Lyons 43
Introducing the ‘Hyper’ Theatrical Subject: The Mise en Abyme of Empty Space
Les Essif 67
Examining Critical History Through Theatre: Feminist Scholarship of the
1980’s and Beyond
Cynthia Running-Johnson 87
Revolution and the Fatally Clever Smile: Caryl Churchill’s MadForest
Donna Soto-Morettini 105
The Bitch Archetype
Ibry G-F Theriot 119
Staging New Dimensions: Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter Almanac and the
Reconfiguration of Artistic Space
Leigh Clemons 135
Playwriting and Oral History: An Interview with Playwright Lavonne Mueller
Stratos E. Constantinidis 145
Confessional Performance; Postmodern Culture in Recent American Theatre
John Brockway Schmor 157
PRAXIS
Praxis: An Editorial Statement
Kent Neely 175
Michal Kobialka, Mark Jennison, 179
Per Brask 207
NOTES ON THE NET
Notes on the Net
Ron Willis 223
BOOK REVIEWS
Rena Cook, James Fisher, Laura H-B Miller, Jaoa Froes, Thomas Akstens 235
BOOKS RECEIVED 249