Spring 1994
Volume VIII
Number 2
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
“Make us the Women We Can’t Be:” Cloud Nine and the Female Imaginary
Marc Silverstein 7
“Always Be Closing”: Competition and the Discourse of Closure in
David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross
Jonathan S. Cullick 23
“Mente teatrale: Andrea Calmo and the Victory of the Performance Text in
Cinquecento commedia”
Paul C. Castagno 37
The Play Intended: Giraudoux’s L’Apollon
Kenneth Krauss 59
Doing the Dirty Work: Gendered Versions of Working Class Women in
Sarah Daniels’ The Gut Girls and Israel Horovitz’s North Shore Fish
Susan C. Haedicke 77
Theatrics and Politics of Culture in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
G. U. de Sousa 89
Touch of Evil and Ecological Optics: Toward a Demystification of Conventional
Film Editing Practice
Mike Evces 103
Murder Mystery Events: Playing, Myth-Making, and Smashing the Fourth Wall,
All at Once
William W. French and Janet Worthington 111
Interview with Edward Bond
Ian Stuart 129
Fornes’s Odd Couple: Oscar and Bertha at the Magic Theatre
Scott T. Cummings 147
Interview with Marcela del Río
Yvonne Shafer 157
An Autobiographic Ethnography of Performance in Everyday Discourse
Ronald J. Pelias 163
PRAXIS
Praxis: An Editorial Statement
Kent Neely 175
Graham Dixon, Marvin Carlson, Carrie Sandahl, Carol Rosen 177
NOTES ON THE NET
Notes on the Net
Ron Willis 213
BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas Akstens, Lynda Hall, Yvonne Shafer, Mary Jo Sodd,
Lurana O’Malley, Laura H-B Miller, James Fisher 223