https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/text-presentation-2018 The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion. The volume includes various essays on the intersections of script and performance, and features an exclusive interview with keynote speaker, playwright Simon Stephens. Edited by Jay Malarcher Format: softcover (6 x 9) Pages: 211 Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliographies, index Copyright Date: 2019 pISBN: 978-1-4766-7037-9 eISBN: 978-1-4766-3661-0 Imprint: McFarland Series: The Comparative Drama Conference Series Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 A Conversation with Simon Stephens (William C. Boles) 5 Performing a Postmodern Prometheus: Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound from Page to Stage (Victoria Lynn Scrimer) 29 August Strindberg, Amiri Baraka and the Radicalization of Domestic Tragedy (Kevin Lucas) 43 Breathing Still: The Dramatic Function of the Untold Tale in The Winter’s Tale (Robert Irons) 61 Imogen in Plus Fours: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s Cymbeline and the Ideal Woman (Lindsay Adams) 73 Schwejk +/− Schweyk: Piscator, Brecht and the Battle for Epic Theater (Drew Lichtenberg) 90 Where Is Akbar Rādi’s Home? A Study of the Concept of Exile at Home in Through the Windowpanes (Babak Mazloumi) 111 “Are You My Butterfly?”: The Metamorphosis of M. Butterfly, 1988–2017 (Martha J. Johnson) 125 “What’s It Going to Be NOW Then, Eh?”: Alexandra Spencer-Jones’s Revisionary Stage Adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (William Hutchings) 140 From Neurotypical Curiosity to Empathetic Movement: Exploring the “Neuro-Perceptive” Staging of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Chad Kennedy ) 154 Exposure Therapy: Ibsen and the Photographic Imagination (Doug Phillip) 165
Review of Literature: Selected Books Frances Babbage, Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature (Verna A. Foster) 179 Sozita Goudouna. Beckett’s Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts (William Hutchings) 183 David Lloyd. Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre (Doug Phillips) 188 Sophie Duncan. Shakespeare’s Women and the Fin de Siècle (Brittany Proudfoot Ginder) 191 Hillary Miller. Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York (Amy Muse) 195 Index 201
BOOK REVIEW Sozita Goudouna. Beckett’s Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts (William Hutchings) p 183