Text & Presentation, 2018

Jay Malarcher is an associate professor of theatre and dramaturg at the School of Theatre & Dance, West Virginia University, Morgantown.

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 delete(Drew Lichtenberg) 90

Where Is Akbar Rādi’s Home? A Study of the Concept of Exile

Home in Through the Windowpanes delete(Babak Mazloumi) 111

“Are You My Butterfly?”: The Metamorphosis of M. Butterfly,

1988–2017 delete(Martha J. Johnson) 125

“What’s It Going to Be NOW Then, Eh?”: Alexandra ­Spencer-Jones’s Revisionary Stage Adaptation of A Clockwork Orange delete(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 delete(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 delete(William Hutchings) 183

David Lloyd. Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre delete(Doug Phillips) 188

Sophie Duncan. Shakespeare’s Women and the Fin de Siècle delete(Brittany Proudfoot Ginder) 191

Hillary Miller. Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York

delete(Amy Muse) 195

Index  201