Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 27, Issue 1 (2017)

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Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 27, Issue 1 (2017)

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Theatre, Performance, and the Amateur Turn

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Introduction

Editorial
Theatre, Performance, and the Amateur Turn
Nadine Holdsworth, Jane Milling & Helen Nicholson
Pages: 4-17
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The Sociable Aesthetics of Amateur Theatre
Erin Walcon & Helen Nicholson
Pages: 18-33
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Noh Creativity? The Role of Amateurs in Japanese Noh Theatre
Diego Pellecchia
Pages: 34-45
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‘The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music’: Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps in Maine, USA
Stacy Wolf
Pages: 46-60
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Amateur Science in Activist Performance: Towards a Slow Science
Simon Parry
Pages: 61-75
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‘Village Hall Work Can Never Be “Theatre”’: Amateur Theatre and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1945–56
Taryn Storey
Pages: 76-91
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Performing Failure? Anomalous Amateurs in Jérôme Bel’s Disabled Theater and The Show Must Go On 2015
Sarah Gorman
Pages: 92-103
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Materialities of Amateur Theatre
Sarah Penny & Cara Gray
Pages: 104-123
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reviews

Book Review
Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field
Acatia Finbow
Pages: 124-125
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Book Review
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation by Fintan Walsh
Alyson Campbell
Pages: 125-126
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells ed. by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson
Antje Hildebrandt
Pages: 126-127
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Voices fromWithin: Grotowski’s Polish Collaborators ed. by Paul Allain and Grzegorz Ziółkowski, trans. by Justyna Drobnik-Rogers, Duncan Jamieson, and Adela Karsznia
Acting with Grotowski: Theatre as a Field for Experiencing Life by Zbigniew Cynkutis, ed. by Paul Allain and Khalid Tyabji, trans. by Khalid Tyabji
Halina Filipowicz
Pages: 128-129
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Book Review
Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice (Second edition) edited. by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton
Critical Perspectives on Applied Theory edited by Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson
Maggie Inchley
Pages: 129-130
Published online: 12 Apr 2017
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Performing Contemporary Indonesia: Celebrating Identity, Constructing Community ed. by Barbara Hatley
Matthew Isaac Cohen
Pages: 130-132
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The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, towards the Real ed. by Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, and Néill O’Dwyer
Rosie Klich
Pages: 132-133
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Backpages

Backpages 27.1
Pages: 134-148
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Abstract

Abstract
Abstracts
Pages: 149-151
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