RE-VIEW

The following review was originally planned to be published in the journal Studies in Theatre and Performance (Routledge). After going through the necessary edits and corrections, however, a peer-reviewer (whose rather redundant job is to review reviews) requested the reviewer to make some connection with “exterior discourse,” by which he meant theories and works that are currently popular in the academia. Since the method chosen to write the text, namely to describe and analyze the series of events from the situated standpoint—"itinerary of thoughts" and "trajectory of experience"—of one particular audience who experienced them, made it difficult to include such references in the main text, and also because the list of people and issues the peer-reviewer listed up appeared arbitrary and irrelevant to the work being reviewed, the reviewer offered instead to discuss such matters in a footnote. This prompted an angry reply from the editor of the journal who was somehow agitated by this response. The review consequently lay dormant for a couple of years, a length of time that resulted in making the text an exemplary case of Past Future Perfect, a future imagined but not realized, which we were to explore in our subsequent work. We thank Cody Eikman for allowing us to publish his writing here. [No Collective]