{"id":286,"date":"2016-03-13T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2016-03-13T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:06:15","slug":"book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CS<\/strong> reviews new and recent theatre books. Anyone interested in writing in either English or French about a new book that would be of interest to a wide audience of theatre scholars, writers and critics should contact <em>Theatre in Print <\/em>Editor Don Rubin (drubin@yorku.ca) as early as possible. Publishers wishing to submit books for review should also contact the editor in advance. In this issue, we are pleased to include reviews of books published recently by our sister organization OISTAT (publication office in Taiwan) and two books from the UK (one on Howard Barker reviewed by French critic Philippe Rouyer and the other on eroticism and death in performance reviewed by <em>CS <\/em>editorial board member Mark Brown from Scotland.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-c983015bf6\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"2\"><div class=\"col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/world-scenography-1975-1990\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default\" target=\"_self\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1148496704-150x150.jpg\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1148496704-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1148496704-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1148496704-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/world-scenography-1975-1990\/\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >World Scenography: 1975-1990<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/eroticism-and-death-in-theatre-and-performance\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default\" target=\"_self\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1311001481-150x150.jpg\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1311001481-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1311001481-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1311001481-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/eroticism-and-death-in-theatre-and-performance\/\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/howard-barker-interviews-1980-2010-conversations-in-catastrophe\/\" class=\"_self pt-cv-href-thumbnail pt-cv-thumb-default\" target=\"_self\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1331790067-150x150.jpg\" class=\"pt-cv-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1331790067-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1331790067-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/03\/1331790067-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n<h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/howard-barker-interviews-1980-2010-conversations-in-catastrophe\/\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010: Conversations in Catastrophe<\/a><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CS reviews new and recent theatre books. Anyone interested in writing in either English or French about a new book that would be of interest to a wide audience of theatre scholars, writers and critics should contact Theatre in Print<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7kGC0-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}