Günter Berghaus 
New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis [PDF ebook] 
Papers Presented at the Colston Symposium, Bristol, 21-23 March 1997

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.