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Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice . By Thomas F. Heck. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 255 + Illus. $49.50 Hb.

The editor defines her theoretical approach very carefully, and limits the questions she asks to following up only those lines of approach. Rather than referring very much to current practice, she defines her theoretical background by reference to the established fathers of 'la mise en scene' in France. Thus she quotes, for example, Dullin, Jouvet, Copeau, Craig in preference to contemporary theoreticians of acting. When she does come up to date, her main guiding star is Vitez, whose view of the actor was notoriously eccentric. She also relies a great deal on concepts derived from theatre semiotics, citing Ubersfeld, Marinis, Pavis, Banu, Taviani, Savarese, Schechner, Rozik, Elam and Asian as the theoreticians who have written most usefully about the art of the actor.