Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11

Abstract

Editor's Introduction Part I: Mainstages 1. The 2003-04 Season and Broadway Musical Theatre as a Political Conversant, Stacy Wolf 2. The Ubiquitous Orange Jumpsuit: Staging Iconic Images and the Production of the Commons, Joshua Abrams 3. America as Rogue State: Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Amelia Howe Kritzer 4. Terrorized by the War on Terror: Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat, Jenny Spencer 5. Unraveling the Golden Thread: Performing the Politics of Black Watch, Marcia Blumberg 6. Voices of the Other: Documentary and Oral History Performance in Post-9/11 British Theatre, Ryan Claycomb 7. Antiwar Activism and the Structures of Trauma in the Plays of Eve Ensler and Kathryn Blume, Emily Klein Part II: Alternative Spaces 8. Culture Project's Iraq War Plays, Jeanne Colleran 9. Descent as Dissent: Arab American Theatrical Responses to 9/11, Dalia Basiouny 10. A View of The Brig: From the Cage to the Street, Katy Ryan 11. Camping on the Streets, Squares and Wastelands Of Power: Theatrical Protest and the 'War On Terror' in the UK, Jenny Hughes 12. Patriot Acts: All-American Tactical Performance in the Age of Permawar, L.M. Bogad 13. Performing Citizenship: The Concert for New York City and the Construction of post-9/11 America, Jennifer L. Chan 14. The Maladapted Hothead Paisan: A Lesbian Comedy of Terrors, Sara Warner