Editorial, Winter 2023
![Confession of the Rabbit God](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kiss-3.jpg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
Hongwei Bao imagines an evocative monologue for the fictional clerk Hu Tianbao, who appears in a short story of Qing Dynasty Chinese scholar Yuan Mei
![Fanchuan and Bianzhuang: Ways of Doing Drag in Contemporary China](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Picture-7.jpg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
Hongwei Bao problematises the umbrella term of “drag” by discussing two categories of drag in contemporary China: fanchuan and bianzhuang.
![Swan Twink](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Andrew-Sutherland_Image-scaled.jpeg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
The performance text for Andrew Sutherland’s Swan Twink subversively uses the iconic, almost mythical, status of the classic Swan Lake to create a queerly intimate, personal and vulnerable performance.
![Searching in the Shadows: Queer Aesthetics in Performance Lighting](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ELW3.jpg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
Lighting designer Emma Lockhart-Wilson posits strategies of subversion, fluidity and drawing attention to bodily labour as ways to explore queerness in three performances.
![An Autoethnographic Reflection in 4 Repetitive Titles on the Blend of Auto and Fiction in Where My Accent Comes From](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-26-at-12.04.47.jpg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
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.
![Locating Care](https://i0.wp.com/www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_17282-scaled.jpg?resize=360%2C360&ssl=1)
Gemma Hutton and Greg Thorpe, interviewed by Alyson Campbell, Meta Cohen and Stephen Farrier.
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