Cover illustration: Gary Wilmes, Laurena Allan, Annie McNamara, Scott Shepherd, and Kate Scelsa in Gatz, Elevator Repair Service (2012). Photograph by Paula Court.

Contents

Notes on Contributors
pages 129-131

Editorial
Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Jenny Hughes & Dominic Johnson
pages 132-133

Articles

‘Everything Has a Fucking Value’: Negative Dialectics in the Work of Back to Back Theatre
Dave Calvert
pages 134-152

Failure through the Flop and Playful Engagements of Authority in 500 Clown Macbeth
Dave Peterson
pages 153-167

Contemporary Choreographic Practice: From Exhaustion to Possibilising
Efrosini Protopapa
pages 168-182

By the Book: Adaptation, Work, and Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz
Catherine Love
pages 183-195

Performing Place, Heritage, and Henry V in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Nadine Holdsworth
pages 196-210

Protesting Exhibit B in London: Reconfiguring Antagonism as the Claiming of Theatrical Space
Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
pages 211-226

Documents

Antigone’s Diary – A Model for Democratic Decision Making in Suburban Stockholm
Love Ekenberg, Rebecca Forsberg & Willmar Sauter
pages 227-240

Belarus Free Theatre, Labour Mobility, and the Cultural Politics of the Border
Elyssa Livergant
pages 241-257

‘The Trigger of Truth is in your Hands’: Conversations with Edward Bond
Susana Nicolás
pages 258-266

Reviews

Double Exposures: Performance as Photography, Photography as Performance by Manuel Vason
Patrick Anderson
pages 267-268

Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer by Michelle Ann Stephens
Lia T. Bascomb
pages 268-269

Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations edited by Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, and Eirini Nedelkopoulou
Sima Belmar
pages 270-271

Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie by Peter Boenisch
Michael Shane Boyle
pages 271-272

Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World by Erika Fischer-Lichte
David Bullen
pages 273-274

Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream by Lynette Goddard
Michael Pearce
pages 274-275

Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War by Carol J. Oja
Brian D. Valencia
pages 275-276

Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance edited by Caridad Svich
Claire Warden
pages 276-277

Backpages

A View from the 2015 Malta Festival
Mischa Twitchin
pages 278-280

‘Space, Time, and Cruelty’: Lars Øyno´s World Premiere Stage Direction (2014) of Henrik Ibsen´s Svanhild (1860)
Brendan McCall
pages 280-285

On the Other Side: A Theatrical Journey in Afghanistan
Émilie Gruat
pages 285-287

Remembering Bill
Janelle Reinelt
pages 288-290

David Bowie (1947-2016)
David Pattie
pages 290-291

In Memoriam: David Bowie
Philip Auslander
pages 291-292

Lazarus, Bowie, and Eros: Simon Critchley
Interviewed and edited by Caridad Svich
pages 292-295

Reflections on the Passing of David Bowie
Carlos Murillo
pages 296

On Bowie
Chris Goode
pages 296-297

Abstracts
pages 298-302