Ecumenica
a journal of theatre and performance
a journal of theatre and performance
Ecumenica Volume 1
Ecumenica Volume 2
Ecumenica Volume 3
BJTP Volume 1
BJTP Volume 2
BJTP Volume 3
BJTP Volume 4
BJTP Volume 4

Volume 4.1: Nations Speaking-Indigenous Performances Across the Americas

Letter from the EditorNations Speaking
Carolyn D. Roark

Feature: Broadway (Un)Bound: Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night
Jaye Darby

Feature: Traces of Hope: Native Authorship in the Missionary Theatre of New Spain
George Panaghi

Feature: Dancers from Beginning to End: Native-Based Modern Dance and the Storytelling Dance-Drama of Daystar/Rosalie Jones
Julie Pearson-Little Thunder

Feature: Caracol: Transcontinental Substantiations in the Recent Work of Coatlicue Theatre Company
Tamara Underiner

Highlight: Exerpt of Fanny & Belle
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

Highlight: The Reason for Crows
Diane Glancy

Highlight: Interview with JudyLee Oliva
Christy Stanlake

Highlight: Interview with Rochelle Warner and Bonita Cleveland
Vessela S. Warner

Profile: Theatre at the National Museum of the American Indian
Vincent P. Scott

Profile: DeLanna Studi
Christy Stanlake

Profile: Marie Clements
Reid Gilbert

 

Book & Performance Reviews:

  • Thomas E. Davis-Staging Coyote's Dream , Monica Mojica and Ric Knowles, Eds.
  • Lisa Bernd-Two Plays by Darrell Dennis and Wawatayby Penny Gummerson
  • Ramon H. Rivera-Servera-The Mummified Deer and Other Plays by Luis Valdez
  • Stephanie Lein Walseth-The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu at Miami University
  • Yuko Kurahashi-Native Voices: Secret History at Lied Center of Kansas
  • Katy Young-Persistence of Memory at Miami University

Volume 4.2: General Issue

November 2007 Cover
Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark

Editorial:Theatre as a Way of Knowing in the Christian Academy--Four Perspectives

Feature: God's Image Carved in Ebony: Race, Religion, and Performance

Amanda Kemp and M. Alison Kibler

Feature: Traces of Hope: Orality, Literacy, and the Preservation of History through Memory in the Dance Drama Rabinal Achi
Daniel Breining

Feature: Missionaries, Martyrs, and Madmen: The Christian as Outsider on the Japanese Stage
Kevin J. Wetmore

Feature: Betrayal and Responsibility in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Little Eyolf and Horton Foote's Young Man from Atlanta
Robert Haynes

Profile: Soul Purpose Liturgical Drama Troupe
John Steven Paul

Book & Performance Reviews:

  • John Lutterbie- Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence, Mark Pizzato
  • Ben Fisler- Theatre and Travel: Tours of the South (Theatre Symposium 13), Susan Kattwinkle (Ed.)
  • James O'Regan- The Idea of Theatre in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century, Donnalee Dox,
  • William Ferleman- Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen, Henry Bial
  • James Brandon- Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain, Mark Pizzato
  • Stephen Harrick- White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater, Marvin McAllister
  • Kevin Otos-"The School for Husbands" at Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, Tx
  • Nic Birns-"Wake Up, Mr. Sleepy, Your Unconscious is Dead" at Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York, NY
  • Ray Schultz-"Faith Healer" at Booth Theatre