Category interventions
Queer Practice
Editorial, Winter 2023
[read more]Confession of the Rabbit God
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
[read more]Fanchuan and Bianzhuang: Ways of Doing Drag in Contemporary China
Hongwei Bao problematises the umbrella term of “drag” by discussing two categories of drag in contemporary China: fanchuan, drawn from traditional and historical Chinese theatre and bianzhuang, influenced by “global drag culture.”
[read more]Swan Twink
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.
[read more]Searching in the Shadows: Queer Aesthetics in Performance Lighting
Lighting designer Emma Lockhart-Wilson posits strategies of subversion, fluidity and drawing attention to bodily labour as ways to explore queerness in three performances.
[read more]An Autoethnographic Reflection in 4 Repetitive Titles on the Blend of Auto and Fiction in Where My Accent Comes From
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.
[read more]Locating Care
Gemma Hutton and Greg Thorpe, interviewed by Alyson Campbell, Meta Cohen and Stephen Farrier.
[read more]Redaction.
Editorial, Spring 2022
[read more]Filling the Blank: Redaction as Affective Strategy in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland
Isabel Stuart writes about redaction as a dramatic technique and a theatrical tool for critique in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland (2021).
[read more]Thoughts on redaction and care
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.
[read more]Doubling Down on the Spectacle: The Performative (After)Lives of Feminicide Photography in Mexico
Aline Hernández’s essay argues that re-enactments of feminicide photography in Mexico disrupt necropolitical operations by performing an aesthetics of critical redaction.
[read more]Postscript: Beyond the Optics of Ally-ship
Postscript: Melissa Poll on Equity and Inclusion Dramaturgy
[read more]Dispatches
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.
[read more]Interventions: Summer 2021
Summer 2021: Outing Archives, Archives Outing
[read more]Fugitivity through Black digitality: podcasting in the Black Plays Archive
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.
[read more]On Being, Knowing, and Doing
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.
[read more]More Now. Notes on the past in online documentary theatre
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.
[read more]Archives are a SCAM!
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.
[read more]Dispatches: Ramzi Maqdisi
17-06-21: Through prose and soundscape, Ramzi Maqdisi reflects on his aural experiences of Palestine in response to the recent violence in Jerusalem.
[read more]Interventions
Winter 2020: Public Health, Politics, and Performance
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