Fall 1998
Volume XIII
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Performance and Performatives
Graham Ley 5
Invalid Representation and Despotism in the Theatre
Athenaide Dallet 19
Between Immigration and Hyphenation: The Problems of Theorizing Asian
American Theater
Josephine Lee 45
Performing Miscegenation: Rescuing The White Slave from the Threat
of Interracial Desire
Diana R. Paulin 71
“Responsibility in Our Own Hands”
Joan Herrington 87
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
“Contemporary Issues in Dramaturgy”
Editor: Sharon L. Sullivan
Rehearsing Dramaturgy: “Time is passing”
Geoff Proehl 103
The Politics of Dramaturgy
John Lutterbie 113
Feminism and Dramaturgy: Musings on Multiple Meanings
Gayle Austin 121
Dramaturgy in Community-Based Theatre
Susan Chandler Haedicke 125
Chicanas/Latinas in Performance on the American Stage: Current Trends &
Practices
Elizabeth Ramirez 133
Playing with the Borders: Dramaturging Ethnicity in Bosnia
Sonja Kuftinec 143
PRAXIS
PRAXIS: An Editorial Statement
Kent Neely 157
“The Reason I’ve Been Talking About all of These Dead People: Cultural Resistance
in Laurie Anderson’s Nerve Bible
Woodrow Hood 161
Saints and Cyborgs: Mystical Performance Spaces (Re) visioned
August W. Staub and Michael J. Hussey 177
Iphigénie en Tauride. By Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York. 19 August 1997
Robert Gross 183
LES ENFANTES TERRIBLES. A dance-opera spectacle based on the
story by Jean Cocteau. Adapted by Philip Glass and Susan Marshall.
Presented by the Arts Festival of Atlanta. Robert Ferst Center for the performing Arts,
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia. 11 September 1997.
Steve Earnest 187
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael Abbott, Thomas Akstens, James Fisher, Theresa Smalec 191
BOOKS RECEIVED 203