2017 · Volume 5 · issue 2

Journal of
contemporary
drama
in english
Editors
Martin Middeke (Editor-in-Chief)
Ute Berns
Christina Wald
Clare Wallace

Advisory BOARD
Mireia Aragay Deirdre Osborne
John Bull Dan Rebellato
Johan Callens Bernhard Reitz
Tobias Döring Anthony Roche
Jill S. Dolan Annette J. Saddik
Nicholas Grene Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Christopher Innes Aleks Sierz
Stephen L. Lacey
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editors
Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke (Editor-in-Chief), Universität Augsburg, Phil.-Hist. Fakultät, Anglistik/
Amerikanistik, Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Universitätsstr. 10, 86159 Augsburg,
E-Mail: martin.middeke@philhist.uni-augsburg.de
Prof. Dr. Ute Berns, Universität Hamburg, Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146
Hamburg, E-Mail: ute.berns@uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Dr. Christina Wald (Reviews), Universität Konstanz, Lehrstuhl für Englische und Allgemeine
Literaturwissenschaft, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Fach 161, 78457 Konstanz,
E-Mail: christina.wald@uni-konstanz.de
Prof. Dr. Clare Wallace, Charles University, Institute for Philosophy, Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38
Prague, E-Mail: klara.wallace@gmail.com

advisory board
Mireia Aragay (Barcelona), John Bull (Lincoln), Johan Callens (Brussels), Tobias Döring (Munich), Jill
S. Dolan (Princeton), Nicholas Grene (Dublin), Christopher Innes (Toronto), Stephen L. Lacey (Glam-
organ), Deirdre Osborne (London), Dan Rebellato (London), Bernhard Reitz (Mainz), Anthony Roche
(Dublin), Annette J. Saddik (New York), Elizabeth Sakellaridou (Thessaloniki), Aleks Sierz (London)

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Contents

Articles

Sarah Roberts
Staging Reverberations of Past Events: A Documentation and Analysis of the
Poetics and Politics of Sibikwa Theatre’s Chapter 2, Section 9  251

Merve Kansız
“Born in the Wrong Body:” The Articulation of Sexual Self-Perception in Sarah
Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis  277

Elaine Aston
Moving Women Centre Stage: Structures of Feminist-Tragic Feeling  292

Michael M. Wagoner
The Limits of the Goat Song in Edward Albee’s The Goat or
Who is Sylvia?  311

Mary L. Bogumil
Between You and Me and the More-than-Human World: Ritual and Reference in
Jez Butterworth’s The River  326

René Reinhold Schallegger

Flying? Falling? — Conflicting Representations of Disability in Kevin Kerr’s
Skydive (2007) and Brad Fraser’s Kill Me Now (2013)  343

Christine Schwanecke
Mobile People, Weapons, and Data Streams; Mobile Audiences and
Theatre Spaces: Rimini Protokoll’s Situation Rooms as a Globalised Theatre
Experience  358

Reviews

Ilka Saal
Dorothy Chansky. Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in
American Theatre  372
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Tom Maguire
Áine Phillips, ed. Performance Art in Ireland: A History  376

Margaret Ames
Sandra Umathum, and Benjamin Wihstutz, eds. Disabled Theater  380

Anja Hartl
Andy Lavender. Performance in the Twenty-First Century:
Theatres of Engagement
Florian Malzacher, ed. Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of
Today  385

Katherine Weiss
Emma Creedon. Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance  392

Aylwyn Walsh
Martin Middeke, Peter-Paul Schnierer, and Greg Homann, eds. The Methuen
Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre  397

Julia Rössler
Causey, Matthew, Emma Meehan, and Néill O’Dwyer, eds. The Performing Sub-
ject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, Towards the Real  401

Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, and Eirini Nedelkopoulou, eds. Perfor-
mance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations  406

Siân Adiseshiah
Cristina Delgado-García. Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre:
Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity  410