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).
Filling the Blank: Redaction as Affective Strategy in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland
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.
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.
Postscript: Beyond the Optics of Ally-ship
Postscript: Melissa Poll on Equity and Inclusion Dramaturgy
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.
Interventions: Summer 2021
Summer 2021: Outing Archives, Archives Outing
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.
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.