1st Edition
Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11 Patriotic Dissent
Editor's Introduction Part I: Mainstages 1. The 2003-04 Season and Broadway Musical Theatre as a Political Conversant, Stacy Wolf 2. The Ubiquitous Orange Jumpsuit: Staging Iconic Images and the Production of the Commons, Joshua Abrams 3. America as Rogue State: Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Amelia Howe Kritzer 4. Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat, Jenny Spencer 5. Unraveling the "Golden Thread": Performing the Politics of Black Watch, Marcia Blumberg 6. Voices of the Other: Documentary and Oral History Performance in Post-9/11 British Theatre, Ryan Claycomb 7. Antiwar Activism and the Structures of Trauma in the Plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume, Emily Klein Part II: Alternative Spaces 8. Culture Project’s Iraq War Plays, Jeanne Colleran 9. Descent as Dissent: Arab American Theatrical Responses to 9/11, Dalia Basiouny 10. A View of The Brig: From the Cage to the Street, Katy Ryan 11. Camping on the Streets, Squares and Wastelands Of Power: Theatrical Protest and the ‘War On Terror’ in the UK, Jenny Hughes 12. Patriot Acts: All-American Tactical Performance in the Age of Permawar, L.M. Bogad 13. Performing Citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the Construction of post-9/11 America, Jennifer L. Chan 14. The Maladapted Hothead Paisan: A Lesbian Comedy of Terrors, Sara Warner
Biography
Jenny Spencer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Dramatic Strategies in the Plays of Edward Bond (Cambridge UP, 1992), co-author with Jeanne Colleran of Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theatre (U Michigan P, 1998), and former editor of Theatre Topics.
