Baudrillard and the ambiguities of radical illusion / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Illusiontext / Goat Island -- Approaching the real: reality effects and the play of fiction / Andrew Quick -- Presenting the prima donna; black femininity and performance in nineteenth-century American blackface minstrelsy / Annemarie Bean -- Truthful trickery: shamanism, acting and reality / Etzel Cardeña and Jane Beard -- Come back to life: an interview with André Stitt / Simon Herbert -- ' ... and so shall you seem to have cut your nose in sunder': illusions of power on the Elizabethan stage and in the Elizabethan market-place / Michael Mangan -- Rose English: a perilous profession / Lynn MacRitchie -- As if dance was visible / André Lepecki -- Hotel pro forma: exposing reality as a visual illusion / Erik Exe Christoffersen -- The ear of man hath not seen / Nicholas Till -- Five microlectures / Matthew Goulish.