Editorial: On Appearance/ADRIAN KEAR -- Susan and Darren: The appearance of authenticity/GERALDINE HARRIS -- Intensities of Appearance/ADRIAN KEAR -- Figuring the Face/SIMON BAYLY -- Returning Appearance to Itself: Trisha Brown, Koosil-ja and the materiality of appearance/MUS ETTA DURKEE -- Wanted [artists’ pages]/KINKALERI -- How to Act, How to Spectate (Laughing Matter)/JOE KELLEHER -- Body Events and Implicated Gazes/JIM DROBNICK -- Appearance, Reality and Truth in Magic: A personal memoir aladin -- Theatre and the Technologies of Appearances: The spirit of apprehensions/ANTHONY KUBIAK -- Extracts from the Notebook of Xavier Valery/CARL LAVERY in collaboration with GERRY DAVIES -- Ambivalent apparitions: the pop-psychic art of TV medium John Edward/BRYONI TREZISE -- Appearing to Play: A Memory Toy Theatre to Cut-Out and Collect [artists’ page]/RICHARD ALLEN & KASIA COLEMAN -- Girls Interrupted: Gendred spectres. Atlantic drag/KATHLEEN M. GOUGH -- The Picturesque World Stage/GLEN MCGILLIVRAY -- Sweating Blood: Intangible heritage and reclaimed labour in Caribbean New Orleans/JOSEPH ROACH -- Notes on Contributors.