This forum, curated by Charlotte Bell, offers five different views from postgraduates and early-career researchers on the shifting landscape of academic publishing.
NOTA, a collection of unedited responses produced and ‘archived’ in real-time, collapses the distance between performance and critical response.
‘So what is Performance if it includes this?’ asks Yelena Gluzman, editor of the deliberately non-selective compendium Emergency Index.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Contemporary Theatre Review, the current editors have hand-picked a selection of articles from the archive that reflect something of the breadth and distinctive character of the journal. The articles will be freely available until the end of 2015, and are introduced by the members of the editorial team.
Amanda Rogers and Ashley Thorpe, co-editors of the special issue debating the casting of the RSC’s The Orphan of Zhao, introduce the online features that accompany the print issue.
In ‘Orphan à la Crouching Tiger‘, Daphne Lei reports on a production of The Orphan of Zhao in La Jolla, California, featuring an all-Asian American cast.
To accompany his analysis of why the casting of The Orphan of Zhao became so contested, Ashley Thorpe provides a critique of the marketing of the RSC production.