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Yana Meerzon's new book, Performing Exile, Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film, has been published by Palgrave as part of their series “Studies in International Performance.” This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artist who, by force or by choice, find themselves on other shores; for whom the hardship of exile is both an existential ordeal and an opportunity to exercise their creative abilities, professional competence, and artistic resources. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his/her everyday life and artistic work. It celebrates the creative propensity and artistic success that the state of exile can offer to an artist forced to deal with the typical exilic conditions of pain of displacement, nostalgia, and loss. The creative output and the fame of the artists selected for this study (Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Barba, Wajdi Mouawad, Josef Nadj, Derek Walcott, and Atom Egoyan), present a variety of 'success stories' in exile that challenge the view of the exilic state as one of mourning, depression, disbelief, and constant suffering. See http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=319726. |
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Alan Woods recently retired from the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University. He now works as a freelance dramaturg, most recently for a production of Agatha Christie's Black Coffee at the Bread & Circus Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, which opened March 3o. More information about his other current activities can be seen at www.alanwoods.org. |
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Jill Stevenson, Assistant Professor at Marymount Manhattan College, recently received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, next year she will serve as co-director of the college's Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence. Her article "Embodying Sacred History: Performing Creationism for Believers" appeared in the Spring issue of TDR and the volume she co-edited with Elina Gertsman, Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces, was published by Boydell and Brewer this March. She is currently finishing the revisions on her next book The Performative Culture of Evangelical Devotion: Affect, Cognition, and Evangelical Dramaturgy, which will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013. |
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Richard Schoch (Queen Mary University of London) has been awarded a three-year fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to write The History of British Theatre History from the Restoration to Modernism, which will be the first monograph on British theatre historiography. Schoch has also been named a Contributing Editor of the new Cengage Shakespeare, for which he will write an essay on the history of Shakespeare in performance from 1660 to 1900. |
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Robert Schanke presented a paper, “It's a Rocky Road for Writers,” at the annual MATC convention. His recent book, Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) caught the attention of Chicago director David Zak, who has decided to direct Yeomans' play, Richmond Jim, at the Naked in July festival in Chicago. The play won awards in 1979 but has never been revived. |
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Charlotte McIvor will commence as Lecturer in English (Emphasis in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies) at the National University of Ireland, Galway in July 2012 where she will teach in the BA and MA programs. This summer, she will serve as the 2012 Director of UC Berkeley’s Summer Abroad Programs “Irish Theatre Today: Origins and the Contemporary Scene” and the Dublin Global Internship Program, both based in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin and University College Dublin respectively. |
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