TABLE OF CONTENTS -- MAPPING POLITICAL PERFORMANCES: A NOTE ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE ANTHOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: QUERIES -- WITNESSES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BLOODY SUNDAY AND THE REDEFINITION OF POLITICAL THEATRE -- ORALITY AND THE ETHICS OF OWNERSHIP IN COMMUNITY-BASED DRAMA -- THE THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL'S TRAJECTORY FROM "PEOPLE'S THEATRE" TO "CITIZEN THEATRE:" INVOLVEMENT OR RENUNCIATION? -- WAYS OF UNSEEING: GLASS WALL ON THE MAIN STAGE -- TO ABSENT FRIENDS: ETHICS IN THE FIELD OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY -- PART TWO: TEXTS -- READING THE BLACKS THROUGH THE 1956 PREFACE: POLITICS AND BETRAYAL -- BARBARIANS AND BABES: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF A POSTCOLONIAL PERSIANS -- PERFORMING STEREOTYPES AT HOME AND ABROAD -- THE COMEBACK OF POLITICAL DRAMA IN CROATIA: OR HOW TO KILL A PRESIDENT BY MIRO GAVRAN -- LOCAL KNOWLEDGES, MEMORIES, AND COMMUNITY: FROM ORAL HISTORY TO PERFORMANCE -- PART THREE: CONTEXTS -- MODALITIES OF ISRAELI POLITICAL THEATRE: PLONTER, ARNA'S CHILDREN, AND THE RUTH KANNER GROUP -- DOCUMENTING THE INVISIBLE: DRAMATIZING THE ALGERIAN CIVIL WAR OF THE 1990S -- THE EROTIC POLITICS OF CRITICAL TITS: EXHIBITIONISM OR FEMINIST STATEMENT? -- THE GÜEGÜENCE EFFECT: THE NATIONAL CHARACTER AND THE NICARAGUAN POLITICAL PROCESS -- PART FOUR: PRACTICE -- DO THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS? CONSIDERING HOMELESS LIVES AS PROPAGANDA AND PRODUCT -- THE BIRABAHN/THRELKELD PROJECT: PLACE, HISTORY, MEMORY, PERFORMANCE, AND COEXISTENCE -- NON-NATURALISTIC PERFORMANCE IN POLITICAL NARRATIVE DRAMA: METHODOLOGIES AND LANGUAGES FOR POLITICAL PERFORMANCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION OF E TO THE POWER 3-EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION -- GAY MUSLIMS AND SALTY MEAT PIES: THE LIMITS OF PERFORMING COMMUNITY -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.