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What do circus zebras, war re-enactments & imperial masculinity have in common? @UysMia & @WildPasts_ trace Frank Fillis’s South African circus horses as political performers—saddled with the weight of Empire. 📷 Mrs Hayes riding a zebra, 1891. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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What does it mean to stage a concert of a play? In STP, Naoko Yagi traces how sound, silence, and utterance shape The Gigli Concert across its 1983 and 1991 Abbey Theatre productions—revealing how Murphy’s language sings when heard, not just read. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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Feeling together is never simple. In STP, Kelsey Jacobson & Bethany Schaufler-Biback explore how audiences craft—and contest—the emotional fabric of live theatre, from shared joy to subtle exclusions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202… #AffectTheory #STPJournal #LivePerformance

Feeling together: the affective project of co-presence and the limits of the audience community

News headlines post-pandemic question whether audience members have ‘forgotten how to behave’ amidst incidents of disruption to theatre performances, suggesting audience norms are in a time of rene...

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What can a shield remember? In STP, Liza-Mare Syron examines the gumayi (spear) and yilimung (shield) in The Visitors—as stage objects grounded in Indigenous knowledge, ceremony, and resistance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…

Weapons of conflict and friendship: the gumayi and yilimung in The Visitors by Jane Harrison

This article explores how stage props transcend their intended functions and semiotics in settler colonial contexts by establishing connections with troubled histories and absent cultures. I examin...

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How do white coats perform medicine? Yixuan Gao reads Life Matters (2019) through costume studies—showing how doctors’ coats shape clinical identity, strain & care onscreen. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202… 📷 Figure 1. Bo Qin & Shiguang Fan, Life Matters. © Shanghai Media Group
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How can theatre be a space for shared knowledge—not just impact? Jonathon Crewe reflects on Under the Radar as a case study in embedding knowledge exchange through co-created performance & post-show dialogue. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202… #PracticeResearch #STPJournal

Under the Radar – a case study: embedding knowledge exchange in creative practice-research projects...

This article examines the role of creative practice-researchers working in the SHAPE subjects (Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts for People and the Economy) in relation to the Knowledge Exc...

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What do Victorian ghosts want from the future? @ElisavetIoanni2 revisits "Cloud Nine" through hauntology—tracing how Caryl Churchill’s ghosts speak to 1979’s political turn, spectral memory, and today’s unfinished futures. Read in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…

Past hauntings for the future: the return of the Victorian ghost in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine...

This article focuses on the appearance of Victorian ghosts in the second act of Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine (1979). I argue that the 1979 setting of this act constitutes: an intermediary poin...

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How can intermediality reshape how students learn, see, and perform? In her latest for STP, @KatsouNatalie explores intermedial heterotopias—hybrid learning spaces where cameras, screens & identities converge in contextual theatre studies. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
Wild Heterotopias. Augmented reality installation by Shuli Sadé. Copyright: Sadé studio, 2019. The Highline, NYC.

ALT Wild Heterotopias. Augmented reality installation by Shuli Sadé. Copyright: Sadé studio, 2019. The Highline, NYC.
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Can performance help evaluate energy policy? @charlie_ingram3 explores Evaluative Performance as a method to capture youth perspectives on Smart Local Energy Systems—bridging climate policy & participatory arts. Now in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202… #ClimateJustice #YouthVoices
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What happens when a pandemic disrupts a research agenda? Jane Collins reflects on the Southall Ever After Festival, where community-led rethinking during COVID-19 reshaped diasporic identity, participation & cultural heritage. Now in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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How can screens, cameras & digital tools reshape theatre pedagogy? @KatsouNatalie explores intermedial heterotopias as hybrid learning spaces—where students reframe identity, space & context through embodied, media-rich practices. Now in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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How does a hereditary puppetry form survive cultural shift? Sohini Chanda & Archana Patnaik trace how danger putul nach in West Bengal adapts through innovation, oral history & state support—without losing its roots. Now in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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What does it mean to perform by walking through a city’s waste? @priyankapathak0 examines "Yamuna Walk" as embodied performance—where drifting through Delhi’s garbage sites becomes both ethnography and critique of urban exclusion. Now in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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How are race and disability entangled on stage? @pONDERado reads debbie tucker green’s "ear for eye"(2018) as staging “Blackness as disability,” where silence, muteness & marginalisation expose how race is prostheticised in British theatre. Read in STP: doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…

Racialized disability-disabled race in contemporary British theatre: pathologizing and prosthetic...

David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder (2000: 47) argue that disability in literary studies is predominantly characterized and represented in two ways: ‘as a stock feature of characterization’ and ...

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Elif Öztek explores the spatial politics of On İkinci Ev, a feminist Turkish play performed behind glass walls in urban spaces. Blending theatre and architecture, the study reveals how the play critiques patriarchal spatial norms. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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Marguerite Galizia redefines self-choreography as a relational practice, questioning isolation in solo dance. Drawing on Ettinger’s wit(h)nessing, she explores the shared Borderspace of performer and audience, where movement, time, and gaze coalesce. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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In her latest article, Amira I. Ramírez Salgado explores Cuerpo-Territorio through movement, mapping, and contact improvisation. How can the body be understood as a dynamic, relational space of knowledge and resistance? Photo: Kitzia Salgado Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
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Karl McIntyre’s latest article explores Alternative Miss World as a site of utopic queer solidarity. ✨🏳️‍🌈 Through @AndrewLoganAMw's dazzling pageant, moments of joy & resistance emerge—offering a vision of community beyond consumerism. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…

Queer communities, friendship, and moments of joy and wonder in Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss...

UK artist Andrew Logan has been creating art in many forms for over 50 years. Arguably his most joyously inclusive event, the Alternative Miss World competition, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary...

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The editorial in STP 44.2, by @_TomSix , honors the legacies of Rebecca Collins (1982–2024), known for her pioneering work on sonic expression, and Jim Davis (1949–2023), a leading scholar of 18th- & 19th-century theatre. Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Editorial 44.2

Published in Studies in Theatre and Performance (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2024)

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Leah Everquill’s study of SIX the Musical @sixuktour highlights how the pop reimagining of Henry VIII’s wives amplifies female agency, challenges patriarchal narratives, and fosters solidarity through feminist humour and performance. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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