Ibrahim Halaçoglu’s decolonial performative text invokes the idea of the meddah, or a traditional storyteller and mimic, for a self-reflexive critical monologue on migration, freedom and identity.

Gemma Hutton and Greg Thorpe, interviewed by Alyson Campbell, Meta Cohen and Stephen Farrier.

Editorial, Spring 2022

Isabel Stuart writes about redaction as a dramatic technique and a theatrical tool for critique in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland (2021).

Tia-Monique Uzor considers the link between dance and water as she reflects on her personal experiences and her work in Katherine Dunham’s archive as spaces where the past, present and future collide.

Aline Hernández’s essay argues that re-enactments of feminicide photography in Mexico disrupt necropolitical operations by performing an aesthetics of critical redaction.

Postscript: Melissa Poll on Equity and Inclusion Dramaturgy

In this photo-essay and conversation, Rina Arya and Allie Carr explore the strange and magical interiors of theatres closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Summer 2021: Outing Archives, Archives Outing

Nadine Deller considers the impact of institutional whiteness on her position as a Black “mixed-race” researcher and how developing a podcast on Black British theatre history helped her negotiate “Black fugitivity” within the BPA.​

In this dialogue based article Vicki Couzens and Priya Srinivasan think through decolonization from the place of praxis and cultural artistic exchanges in the Australian context.

Wojtek Ziemilski presents a multilayered hypertext in response to Lola Arias’ documentary theatre workshop Mis Documentos, playing with autobiography and the digital in archival performance.

Reflecting on his research on folk performances in subaltern communities in India, Brahma Prakash, in his article “Archives are a SCAM!”, critically considers the politics concerning structural archival conventions.

17-06-21: Through prose and soundscape, Ramzi Maqdisi reflects on his aural experiences of Palestine in response to the recent violence in Jerusalem.

Winter 2020: Public Health, Politics, and Performance

Photography and memory, ritual and writing come together in Vanessa Damilola Macaulay’s inquiry into racialised experiences of breath and breathlessness, from violent anti-blackness to Fanon’s revolution.

‘You live by charity, you die by charity.’ Brian Lobel, performance maker, curator and author of Theatre & Cancer on the economics of illness narratives and the precarisation of disability justice.

In this visual and textual autoethnography Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias explores how an Indigenous community navigates the precarities of neo-colonialism and finds sustenance in rituals of home.

14-12-20: Paul Rae profiles political advisor Dominic Cummings via Oscar Wilde, testing the capacity of performance studies to make sense of a present that seems increasingly fictional.

Spring 2020: European Performance in Troubled Times.
Editorial by Aneta Mancewicz