Contents

Notes on Contributors
pages 469-471

Articles

(Up)Setting the Scene: Open Court as Staging and Spectating Intervention
Vicky Angelaki
pages 472-487

Death and the Community of Comic Romance: Sarah Ruhl’s Poetics
of Transformation in Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Ana Fernández-Caparrós
pages 488-501

Surge, Sway, and Yaw: Mooring Performances in The Boat Project
and A Room for London
Stuart Andrews
pages 502-517

Kira O’Reilly Playing in the Lab
Johanna Linsley
pages 518-533

Play as an Aesthetic Discourse in African Cultural Performances
Kennedy C. Chinyowa
pages 534-544

Woman as Plaything? Configurations of the Feminine in Japanese Butoh
Catherine Curtin
pages 545-560

Documents

Daring to be Present: An Interview with Carlyle Reedy
Eleanor Roberts
pages 561-57250 Years On: Theater Genesis and Sam Shepard
Lee Kissman
pages 573-581ReviewsPassionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love by Nicholas Ridout
Nadine Holdsworth
pages 582-583Performance and the Global City edited by D. J. Hopkins and Kim Solga
Patrick Lonergan
pages 583-584The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, and Saskya Iris Jain
Sabine Sörgel
pages 584-586Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances by Christine L. Garlough
Royona Mitra
pages 586-587Encounters in Performance Philosophy edited by Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay
Nik Wakefield
pages 587-589Backpages

New writing in the UK 2015: A Mid-Year Overview
Aleks Sierz
pages 590-599

Abstracts
pages 600-603

Corrigendum
page 604