The second volume of the 5th issue of Performance Paradigm, 'After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory', edited by Bryoni Trezise and Caroline Wake is now available online at http://www.performanceparadigm.net This issue, like all our issues, is free. Please send the url to any friends or colleagues who may be interested.  You will need to log in as per usual to access the full text of the journal. We hope you enjoy this issue of Performance Paradigm journal and look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions.

Regards, The editors (Edward Scheer, Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan)

PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 5.2, 2009.

CONTENTS

Articles

"After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory. An Introduction to Volume II" Bryoni Trezise

"Embodied Spaces of Nation: Performing the National Trauma at Hellfire Pass" Chris Hudson

"Coming to Terms with Trauma Tourism" Laurie Beth Clark

"Disturbing the Sound of Silence: Towards the Thick Vision of the Long Soviet Silence" Maria Tumarkin

"'Did you mean post-traumatic theatre?': The vicissitudes of traumatic memory in contemporary postdramatic performances" Karen Jürs-Munby

"Ambivalent Bereavements: Embodying Loss in the Twenty-First Century" Bryoni Trezise

Interview

"On the Ethics of Non-Disclosure: a Roundtable with Urban Theatre Projects and Collaborators" Bryoni Trezise and Caroline Wake

Book Reviews

Performance Histories, Bonnie Marranca (New York: PAJ Publications, 2008), reviewed by Kate Rossmanith

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, Graham St John (ed), (New York  Oxford: Bergham Books, 2008), reviewed by Sandra D'Urso

The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, Petra Kuppers (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), reviewed by Erin Hefferon

Critical Theory and Performance, eds., Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), reviewed by Jane Goodall