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
Ecumenica Volume 1

General Issue
Volume 1.1

Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark

Letter from Baylor University Theatre

Feature: Taxonomy of Liturgy and Theatre: Structural Similitude
James O’Regan


Feature: Masks, Trances, and the Imagination
W. Keith Tims

Highlight: Interview with Adam Godley
John H. Baker

Highlight: Interview with Ron Marasco
Carolyn D. Roark

Highlight:
Difficult and Dangerous Dialogues: Islamophobia, Interrogation, and Torture
Stacey Connelly


Book & Performance Reviews:
  • Heather Beasley- Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama, Regina Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, eds
  • Brian Carney- Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War, Allen J. Frantzen
  • Jeffrey H. Richards- Blackface Cuba: 1840-1895, Jill Lane
  • Sheila Rabillard- Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater, Jaye T. Darby and Stephanie Fitzgerald, eds.
  • Boone T. Hopkins- Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre, Walter A. Davis.
  • Matthew Saltzberg- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan
  • Jeffrey Scott- Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts, John H. Jameson, Jr., John E. Ehrenhard, and Christine A. Finn, eds.
  • Amber Jackson- Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Playwrights Horizons Theatre
  • Bill Gelber- King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company

 

Special Issue
Volume 1.2:
"Performing Islam/Muslim Realities" 


Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark

Editorial: Against Cropped Truths 
Marvin Carlson & Hazem Azmy

Feature: Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Lina Saneh's Appendice
Eyad Houssami

Feature: Khutbah/Community: Islam, Preaching, and Congregational Identity
Peter Civetta

Feature: Islamic Sufism and Malay Adat in Two Plays by Malaysia's Noordin Hassan
Mona Khedr

Feature: The Global Dervish: Intercultural and Intracultural Appropriations of the Sufi Performance Space
Laura Chakravarty Box

Highlight: The Comedy of the East, or the Art of Cunning: A Testimony
Lenin El-Ramly

Profile: Golden Thread Productions
Serge Bakalian

Profile:
Silk Road Theatre Project and Yusuf El Guindi's Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat
Jennifer Shook

Profile: Progress Theatre
Cristal Chanel Truscott

Profile:  Theatre of the World Festival 2009, Many Stories, Many Truths: Voices of the Middle East
Dani Bedau

Book & Performance Reviews:
  • Khalid Amine- Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain, Mas'ud Hamdan
  • Rohaizad Suaidi- Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women: A Body of Words, Laura Chakravarty Box
  • Areeg Ibrahim- Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed.
  • Marvin Carlson- Verbrennungen (Scorched), Akademietheater of Vienna 
  • Benjamin Whistutz- The Satanic Verses, Hans Otto Theatre of Potsdam, Germany
  • Margaret Litvin- The Veiled Monologues, Yale Repertory Theatre