Ecumenica
a journal of theatre and performance
a journal of theatre and performance
Ecumenica Volume 1
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Ecumenica Volume 2

 
General Issue
Volume 2.1
 
 
Letter from the Editor
Carolyn D. Roark

Feature: A Playwright of Pragmatism: Susan Glaspell's Unity of Science and Religion
Michael Winetsky

Feature: The Living Theatre and Its Discontents: Excavating the Somatic Utopia of Paradise Now
James Penner

Feature: From Filth to Faith: Creating Holy Ground in New York's Five Points
Bradley Griffin

Feature:The Paradigms of Abundance and Scarcity: Theologial Subtext in David Edgar's Pentecost
Rhett Luedtke

Highlight: Interview with Ron Reed
Angela Konrad

Profile: Dzieci Theatre
Elizabeth Cawns

Profile: The Harry Ransom Center
Danielle Brune Sigler

Profile: The Life Stage Theatrical Troupe, Inc.
Rev. Bob Versteeg

Book & Performance Reviews:
  • Julie Burrell- Querying Difference in Theatre History, Scott Magelssen & Ann Haugo, Eds.
  • Kelly Carolyn Gordon- Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre. Fiorelli's Plaster, Odai Johnson
  • Adrianne Adderly- Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare, Scott L. Newstock, ed.
  • Milbre Burch- Performing Loss-Rebuilding Community Through Theater and Writing, Jodi Kanter
  • Steve Earnest- The Deadly Sins, Reykjavik City Theatre, Iceland
 


Special Issue
Volume 2.2: "Sex and Sacredness"

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