By Iyorwuese Hagher 256 pp. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America Reviewed by Don Rubin [1] (Canada) Africa’s theatre is still, by and large, a secret for most theatre people around the world. The occasional book on the subject is
A Biography by John Lahr 765 pp. New York: Norton and Company Reviewed by Patricia Keeney [1] (Canada) Perhaps best-known internationally as senior theatre critic for The New Yorker for some two decades, John Lahr is the author of 18
By Richard Schechner 196 pp. London and New York: Routledge Reviewed by Don Rubin [1] (Canada) In the often solitudinous worlds of Theatre and Theatre Scholarship there is a giant figure of a man who has made an unusually impressive
Ivan Medenica, editor 150 pp. Belgrade: Institute of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television Faculty of Dramatic Arts Reviewed by Katerina Delikonstantinidou [1] (Greece) In the decade between the publication of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Post-dramatic Theatre in 1999 and the Conference “Dramatic
Edited by David Ian Rabey and Sarah Goldingay 272 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press Reviewed by Dominic Cavendish [1] (UK) “I have a huge respect for ignorance,” Howard Barker once said during an audience Q and A that concluded a