By Edward Ziter 259 pp. UK: Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Marjan Moosavi* (Iran/Canada) Edward Ziter’s Political Performance in Syria is a major contribution to scholarship on political theatre in a specifically Muslim Middle Eastern context. It delivers many fresh perspectives
By Octavian Saiu 235 pp. Bucharest: Institutul Cultural Roman (in English) Reviewed by Patricia Keeney* (Canada) The madness of Hamlet has become the madness of the world, according to Romanian critic and scholar Octavian Saiu. That is, the sixteenth century
By Patricia Kokori 289 pp. Athens: Nefeli Reviewed by Katerina Delikonstantinidou* Yet another volume on Beckett, this one professing to respond to the apparently ever-relevant “aesthetic radicalism” of the great Irish dramatist and to the demand for “the invention of
Edited by Honor Ford-Smith 283 pp. Kingston: Paul Issa Publications Reviewed by Alvina Ruprecht* (Canada) Honor Ford-Smith is an actor, director, poet, playwright and socially-engaged Jamaican-born artist. A theoretician of post-colonial theatre as well, she is intimately aware of the
Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė 253 pp. UK: Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Will Daddario* (USA) Deleuze and Beckett is the second anthology curated by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė in recent years. Thinner and narrower in