Should The Merchant of Venice be staged post-Holocaust? How was Antigone (an icon of noble suffering in the Western liberal humanist tradition) received in Apartheid-riven South Africa? These are some of the questions ...

Sophocles’ dramatic depiction of the myth of Antigone (441 BC) has undergone a range of theatrical reincarnations over the centuries, from the tellingly entitled Antigone ou le piete by Robert Garnier (1580) to versions ...

Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This has led to an astonishing range of performance styles, ...

The scholars included in this collection sought to indicate more contemporary working definitions for the expression 'American Dream', or rather Dreams. The multidisciplinary selections come from many countries and represent ...