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Contents

 

Special Issue on Theatre and the Arab Spring

 

Dedication

 

Articles

 

Introduction: Rehearsing Arab Performance Realities

HAZEM AZMY and MARVIN CARLSON

 

Re-enacting Revolution and the New Public Sphere in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco

KHALID AMINE

 

Tahrir Square as Spectacle: Some Exploratory Remarks on Place, Body and Power

MOHAMED SAMIR EL-KHATIB

 

From Tahrir to ‘Tahrir’: Some Theatrical Impulses toward the Egyptian Uprising

MARGARET LITVIN

 

Sufism and Shakespeare: The Poetics of Personal and Political Transformation in Sa'dallah Wannus's Tuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawwulat

ROBERT MYERS and NADA SAAB

 

Clowns of the Revolution: The Malas Twins and Syrian Oppositional Performance

EDWARD ZITER

 

The Tunisian Revolution and the Dialectics of Theatre and Reality

RAFIKA ZAHROUNI

 

Book Reviews

 

Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost.

By Margaret Litvin.

 

Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and the Contemporary Performing Arts. Edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Christel Stalpaert, David Depestel and Boris Debackere.

 

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance.

Edited by Dennis Kennedy.

 

The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical.

Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris and Stacy Wolf.

 

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943–1965.

By Corinne J. Naden.

 

New Directions in Renaissance Drama and Performance Studies.

Edited by Sarah Werner.

 

Shakespeare and the Staging of English History.

By Janette Dillon.

 

Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama.

By Anna McMullan.

 

Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew.

By Maurya Wickstrom.

 

New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres.

By John Conteh-Morgan, with Dominic Thomas.

 

Cooperation and Conflict: GDR Theatre Censorship, 1961–1989.

By Laura Bradley.

 

Radical Visions 1968–2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama.

By Denise Varney.

 

Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China.

By Sophie Volpp.

 

Biographical Theatre.

By Ursula Canton.

 

Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790.

By Daniel O'Quinn.

 

Books Received

 

Corrigendum

 

 

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