We are pleased to announce the publication of Theatre Annual 76 (2023).
“At first glance, the theatrical subjects of the articles in this volume appear to have little in common. They concern a mid-twentieth century comedy, a contemporary adaptation of a classical Chinese play, a participatory ritual drama, and a community-engaged devising project. Yet taken together they amplify the calls for justice within each. So too, do healing and care resonate across these performances and this scholarship as radical theatrical practices and revolutionary representations. Amidst the changing theatrical, social, and actual landscape, they offer us alternative and urgent models of performance, which demonstrate the transformative potential of care not only for a just world, but also a thriving one.”
–Ann Folino White, editor Theatre Annual 76
Featuring:
Jonathan Shandell: “Snatching the Bull Whip: Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious as Revolutionary Comedy in Disguise”
Zach Dailey: “‘F*ck Me, It’s Snowing’: Transpacific Trauma and Adaption in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer (2017)”
Isaiah Matthew Wooden: “At the Nexus of Catharsis and Black Healing: Ritualizing Repair in What to Send Up When It Goes Down”
Joshua L. Truett and Ana Elena Puga: “A Dramaturgy of Care Labor for Community-Engaged Devised Theatre”
Book Reviews by Christiana Molldrem Harkulich, Brooke Christian, Weiyu Li, I.B. Hopkins, Mysia Anderson, Michelle Gibbs, Ashlyn King Barnett, Jackie Rosenfeld, and Beth Wynstra
Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated to examining theatre and performance of the Americas. We construe “America” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Articles may treat work in these geographic areas or work from these areas that is presented elsewhere in the world. We welcome articles on the history and ethnography of performance, drawing from such areas as theatre studies, performance studies, popular culture, music, anthropology, dance, communication, philosophy, folklore, history, and areas of interest that cross disciplinary lines.