Ecumenica
a journal of theatre and performance
a journal of theatre and performance
Current Issue

General Issue

Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark

 

Editorial: The “Don’t” Factor: Faith and Repressive Sexual Ethics
John Fletcher, Guest Editor

 

Highlight: Love in the Time of Derrida
Henry Bial

 

Feature: Demanding the Divine: Terrence McNally's Gay Passion Play CORPUS CHRISTI
Thomas Fish

 

Feature: Goddess-Men: Nationalism, Brahminism and Female Impersonation in Indian Religious Theatre
Patrick Murphree

 

Feature: 'A Greedie Desire': Performing Puritan Passion
Simon duToit

 

Highlight: Under the Tamarind Tree
Rebecca Nesvet

 

Profile: Tara Dhatu
Jessica Zebrine Gray

 

Profile: The Passion of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
Jacek Scarso

 

Profile: Stan Denman's EMBRACING
Kari Hatfield

 

Book & Performance Reviews:

  • Jennifer A. Kokai—Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920, Katie N. Johnson
  • Brian Eugenio Herrera—The Viagra Ad Venture: Masculinity, Media, and the Performance of Sexual Health, Jay Baglia
  • Peter Novak—The Queerest Art: Esays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla, Eds.
  • Jeff D. Grace—Tender Fires: The Spiritual Promise of Sexuality, Fran Ferder and John Heagle
  • Brett D. Johnson—The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Mn
  • Dorothy Dodge Robbins—Phèdre, National Theatre, London
  • Laura Grace Pattillo—Next Fall, Playwrights Horizons
  • Kenneth Robbins—Death and the King’s Horseman, National Theatre, London