Things That Always Tend to Happen in Simon Stephens’ Plays
Louise LePage uses video as critical medium, assembling a cast of scholars to respond to Billy Smart’s provocation regarding ‘things that always tend to happen in Simon Stephens’ plays’.
Things That Always Tend to Happen in Simon Stephens’ Plays
When Little is Said and Feminism is Done? Simon Stephens, the Critical Blogosphere and Modern Misogyny
Melissa Poll uses this online forum to argue that many criticisms of Stephens’ Three Kingdoms, including the main articles in this special issue, avoid grappling with its ‘modern misogyny’.
Harper Regan by Simon Stephens: through a Greek lens
Reflecting on her staging of Stephens’ Harper Regan in the United States, Gaye Taylor Upchurch asks: ‘why is a woman with agency still such a scary notion?’
The Funfair: A New Adaptation by Simon Stephens
Walter Meierjohann discusses his production of Stephens’ The Funfair for the opening season at HOME, Manchester, in light of nationalist resurgence in the UK.
Interventions 26.2 (May 2016)
This issue of Interventions explores what the digital might offer to performance scholarship, practice, and criticism.
Postmedia Performance
In ‘Postmedia Performance’ Sarah Bay-Cheng offers theatre and performance scholarship a provocation to rethink its approach to making sense of the digital.