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Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre. By Jill Dolan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 233. $27.95 Pb.

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Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre. By Jill Dolan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 233. $27.95 Pb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Aylwyn Walsh
Aylwyn Walsh*
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University of Leeds, [email protected]
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Theatre Research International , Volume 48 , Special Issue 1: Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance , March 2023 , pp. 108 - 111
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Notes

1 Dolan, Jill, ‘Performance, Utopia, and the “Utopian Performative”’, Theatre Journal, 53, 3 (2001), pp. 455–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Davis, Mike, interview by Day, Joe, in Dutkiewicz, Piotr and Sakwa, Richard, eds., 22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World's Foremost Thinkers (New York: Social Science Research Council and New York University, Press, 2013), p. 125Google Scholar.

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5 Levitas, The Concept of Utopia, p. 8.

6 Dolan, Jill, ‘“Lesbian” Subjectivity in Realism: Dragging at the Margins of Structure and Ideology’, in Case, S. E., ed., Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre (London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), pp. 40–53Google Scholar; Dolan, Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993).

7 Fuchs (2007), p. 198.

8 Roman, David, ‘Comment – Theatre Journals’, Theatre Journal, 54, 3 (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, cited in UiP, p. 65.

9 Including Muñoz, José Esteban, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009)Google Scholar; Prendergast, Monica, ‘Utopian Performatives and the Social Imaginary: Toward a New Philosophy of Drama/Theater Education’, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 45, 1 (2011), pp. 58–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rivera-Servera, Ramon, ‘Choreographies of Resistance: Latina/o Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative’, Modern Drama, 47, 2 (2004), pp. 269–89CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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12 Muñoz, Cruising Utopia, p. 99.

13 Ibid., p. 99.

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15 Kaba, Mariame, We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021), p. 26Google Scholar.