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This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol in 1997, and substantially revised for this publication. They reflect on some of the key developments in the discipline of Theatre Studies over the past fifty years and combine this with a discussion of new trends and approaches, especially in the fields of Performance Studies, reception analysis, interculturalism, sociocultural analysis, theatre anthropology, dance and movement analysis, computer-assisted reconstruction of performance venues, street theatre, guerilla theatre, ritual theatre, etc.
Contents: Richard Schechner, What is >Performance Studies< Anyway? - Patrice Pavis, The Conditions of Reception in the Theatre: Psychological and Psychoanalytical Approaches. - Darko Suvin, On the Epistemology and Pragmatics of Intercultural Theatre Studies. - Maria Shevtsova, Sociocultural Performance Analysis. - Jean-Marie Pradier, Ethnoscenology: The Flesh is the Spirit. - Ian Watson, Intercultural Performance: Barter, Cultural Exchange and Reception. - Deborah Kapchan, Exchanging Lies and Creating Truths: Intentionality in Moroccan Market Place Performance. - Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Desiring Methodology: Performing Postcolonial Theatre Anthropology in Pakistan. - Andrew Gurr, Versatile Venues and the Displacement of the Globe: Reconstructing Outdoor and Indoor Performances in Jacobean England. - Richard Beacham, Virtually There: Computer-assisted Reconstructions of Ancient Theatrical Spaces. - Gad Kaynar, Audience and Response-Programming Research and the Methodology of the Implied-Spectator. - Susan Bennett, Watching Another, Viewing Theatre: Questions for Audience Reception and Cross-cultural Performance. - Janet Adshead-Lansdale, Narratives and Metanarratives in Dance Analysis. - Marcia B. Siegel, Using Lexicons for Performance Research: Three Duets. - Linda Myrsiades, Performance Analysis Through Field Research: The Guerilla Theatre in Greece Under the Nazi Occupation. - Lisa Wolford, Methodological Issues in the Documentation and Analysis Grotowsky's Art as Vehicle.