Theatres in the round: new perspectives on comparative drama / Dorothy Figueira and Marc Maufort -- Thoughts on the origin of Nordic drama / Steven Sondrup -- "Uncomfortable truths about contemporary Britain": black and South Asian theatre in the U.K. / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Land and cultural memory: Djanet Sears's The adventures of a black girl in search of God and Diane Glancy's Jump kiss: an Indian legend / Caroline De Wagter -- The high stakes of mixed race: post-race, post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa / Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. Komar -- Peter Olov Enquist's and Racine's Phaedra / Ross Shideler -- Theories of myth and myths of theory in Thomas Mann and Girish Karnad / Dorothy Figueira -- Soyinka [Euripides, Nietzsche] Thomas Mann: intertextual dialogues across the twentieth century / John Burt Foster