In this work, I promote a dialogue between Drama and Performance Studies concerning the performance of gender in everyday life and on the stage. While Judith Butler and others have argued that the performativity of gender must be examined outside of theatre, I argue that theatre can provide us with a unique lens through which to examine aspects of gender that can be overlooked in everyday life.
The plays and performance art I have chosen highlight different modes of performing gender through representations of the female body, which introduce the tension between the discursively produced...

Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre from the rubble of Berlin and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of Rethinking the Maternal in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway s Native Guard, a keynote essay by Irma Mayorga, and eighteen reviews of new book publications of note.
Theatre History...