TDR The Drama Review
Volume 43, Noumber 1, Spring 1999
TDR Comment
Oedipus Clititonius 5
RICHAKD SCHECHNER
Letters, Etc.
In Praise of Preposterous Propositions 8
JAMES HAKBECK
Two Bits for the Arts 9
WILLIAM J. MOWDBIR
The Incredible Shrinking Man Essay & Board Game:
a collaborative publication project 13
GOAT ISLANIJ AND THE STUDENTS OF THE SUNFLOWER COMMUNITY
SCHOOL, CHICAGO
A creative collective known for their theatre-dance works gives TDR readers
an "offshoot publication" that is both an essay and a board game.
The King Is a Thing: Bodies of Memory in the Age of Reagan 46
TIM RAPHAEL
As president, Ronald Reagan was the performing effigy of himself as the
Hollywood actor the sovereign/president reconstituted as the actor/president.
Dancing witli Diana: A Study in Hauntology 59
DIANA TAYLOK
"lVllat's Diana to me, that I should weep for her?" How and why does
Princess Di's gllost haunt our memories as well as the latest political crisis?
The Geography of Creation: Decalage as Impulse, Process,
and Outcome in the Theatre of Robert Lepage 79
JAMES BUNZLI
Quebec director Robert Lepage combines hi-tech, artistic process, environ-
mental theatre, autobiography, and a very special sense oftheatre travel.
Twisted Bodies: Aspects of Female Contortionism in the Letters
of a Connoisseur 104
KARL TOEI'FER
Jnvestigating a little known art sexual, perverse, fascinating as revealed
in the letters and photographs ofEduardo Titus, a man obsessed with bodies
pliant yet strong, vulnerable yet hold.
An Anatomy of Anatomy 137
ALLEN S. WEISS
Desublimation and Morbidity 145
ALLEN S. WEISS
Perfomative writing autobiographical andfrtishistic about doth of all
kinds, from Barbie to ritual ancestral figures, from demonic figurines to
unmentionable, unrepresentable, uncanny objects.
Digits, Discourse, and Documentation: Performance Research
and Hypermedia 152
STEVE DIXON
Is digital multimedia the new interface between performance theory and practice?
An exploration of hypermedia discourse and documentation supported by the
interactive CD-ROM Chameleons 2: Theatre in a Movie Screen.
Books
Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance 176
by Sharon Friedler and Susan Glaser; Dancing Women: Female Bodies
in Performance by Sally Banes
RAMSAY BURT
Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, "Race" and Nation in 182
Early Modern Dance by Ramsay Burt
SUSAN MANNING
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York 184
School of Dance Criticism by Diana Theodores; Marmalade Me revised
and expanded edition byJillJohnston; Spreading tile Cospfl of tin'
Modern Dance: Newspaper Dance Criticism in (lie United States, 1850-1954
by Lynne Conner
ANN DALY
TDR (DRAMA REVIEW)
VOL. 43, NO. 3, 1999
TDR Comment
Theatre of War in the Former Yugoslavia:
Event, Script, Actors 5
BKANISLAV JAKOVLJEVIC
Introduction
Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects at the End of the Century 15
JOHN BELL
From the beginning, masks, puppets, and performing objects have been
central to performance. In his introduction to this special issue of TDR,
guest editor John Bell surveys the field.
A Puppet Tree: A Model for the Field of Puppet Theatre 28
STEPHEN KAPLIN
Kaplin proposes a new theory of puppet theatre based on distance and
ratio—where distance is the degree of separation between performer and
object, and ratio the number of objects compared to the number of performers.
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King 36
an interview by RICHARD SCHECHNER
With her Broadway smash hit The Lion King, Taymor became
one of America's most popular puppeteers. Her work is grounded in
Indonesia, mime training with Jacques Lecoq, and her own decades-long
experiments. In this interview, Taymor discusses the overall trajectory
of her stage and film work.
What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets
& Performing Objects? 56
PETER SCHUMANN
Peter Schumann, the grandmaster ofAmerican puppetry, tells some
of what he knows about puppets and performing objects.
The End of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Bread and Puppet Theater
and Counterculture Performance in the 1990s 62
JOHN BELL
The Bread and Puppet's Domestic Resurrection Circus emerged within
the counterculture of the 1960s and 70S and continued through 1998.
Bell places this long-running event within the cultural ecology of Vermont
and the U.S.A.
Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception and Enchantment
in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player 81
MARK SUSSMAN
Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre 97
PYOTR BOGATYREV
Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture 115
EDWARD PORTNOY
Articulations: The History of All Things 135
THEODORA SKIPITARES
lfGandhi Could Fly...: Dilemmas and Directions in Shadow
Puppetry of India 154
SAUL SINGH
Rediscovering Mask Performance in Peru: Gustavo Boada,
Maskmaker with Yuyachkani 169
an interview by JOHN BELL
The Art of Puppetry in the Age of Media Production 182
STEVE TILLIS
Books
Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture
by Steve Redhead; Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism,
Modernity and the Threepenny Lawsuit by Steve Giles 196
PHILIP ALJSLANDER
Peter Brook by Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves;
The Theatre of Robert Wilson by Arthur Hoimberg 200
JIM PECK
The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre edited by James R. Brandon 204
SUDIPTO CHATTERJEE
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color edited by Kathy Perkins
and Roberta Uno 205
SHARON MAZER
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