New Theatre Quarterly 79

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 79 include: Karl Valentin's Illogical Subversion: Stand-up Comedy and Alienation Effect; The Shamen and the Epic Theatre: the Nature of Han in the Korean Theatre; Dialogism and the Theatre Event: Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw's Medea, 2001; The Irony of Passionate Chaos: Modernity and Performing Medea; Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy; Being a Shyster: Re-visioning the Actor with Learning Difficulties; Dance Culture and Statutory Politics: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Myth of Primitivism; NTQ Reports and Announcements; NTQ Book Reviews.