e_PAI Editorial Board  
Editorial Board Editor in chief: Michael Bridger (UK)

Editorial advisors:
Christopher Bannerman (UK)
Valerie Briginshaw (UK)
Geoffrey Burgon (UK)
Bruce Gaston (Thailand)
Tony Geeves (Australia)
Ignacio Garcia May (Spain)
Susan Melrose (UK)
Mohd Anis Md Nor (Malaysia)
Toshihiko Norizuki (Japan)
Vicki Ooi (Hong Kong)
Leon Rubin (UK)
 
  e-PAI journal issues and content:  
2001 "Playful Phoenix" : Feminist Manipulations of the Gaze in Contemporary Singapore Plays

KK Seet

This paper examines recent Singapore plays by women for the dramaturgical and performative strategies adopted in dismantling the gaze and de-essentialising the gender assumptions that underlie theatrical representation. The majority of these strategies involve postmodernist deconstructions of the traditional performance apparatus or disruptions of conventional stage space and scenography. Even the few plays which are couched in the realist mode, and mistakenly assumed to be re-enacting and reifying the male trajectory, are no less subversive in their subtle manoeuvres to ambiguate and de-stabilise spectator positions. The contributions of the theatre director in furthering the feminist agenda of these playwrights will also be considered.

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Comparative Music Praxes: Issues and Concepts, Debates and Dilemmas - conference papers

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2002 Presence

Presence is an experimental issue of e-PAI that explores ways of presenting academic and related work in a manner that is specific to the online medium, while respecting the dominant conventions that govern the publication of research.

Writers and artists have contributed pieces that intersect, at some level, reflections on performance, and the specific conditions of the Internet.

enter the 'presence' issue

2003/4

Virtuosity and Performance Mastery

This 2003-2004 edition of e-PAI is edited by Susan Melrose with editorial support from Renate Bräuninger. The material is based upon the Virtuosity and Performance Mastery symposium held at Middlesex University in May/June 2003. Photographics and web-design are by John Robinson and additional visual material is from Hannah Bruce.

Enter the 'Virtuosity and Performance Mastery' issue ...

Performing Arts International

(ISSN 1027-0000)
Issue 1
Hybridity (November 1996)

Issue 2
Black Theatre in Britain (December 1996)

Issue 3
Old Worlds, New Worlds (January 1999)

Issue 4
Performance and Consciousness (April 1999)

(These issues of Performing Arts International were published by Harwood Academic Publishers).
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