Special Issue: Theatre, Performance and Activism: Gestures towards an Equitable World
Edited by Jenny Hughes and Simon Parry
The latest print issue combines scholarly articles with contributions from artist-activists to explore the theatrical gestures of protest: gestures that traverse the private and public realms, gestures that manifest the labour of care, gestures of migration and movement, and gestures of solidarity.

This issue of Interventions is focused on activism and performance and accompanies the print journal’s special issue ‘Theatre, performance and activism: gestures towards an equitable world’.

Jenny Hughes and Simon Parry reflect on a collectively authored blogging project on activist performance, in which ‘domestic gestures’ emerged as one of its core themes.

In this interview Shane Boyle and Larry Bogad reflect on the relationship between performance and protest through a critical exploration of the ‘irresistible image’.

Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A and Robert Leach contribute to a reflection and celebration of Irish writer and performer Margaretta D’Arcy’s ongoing activism.

‘How do we imagine something other than what there is?’ This short film is an edited version of an interview with the vacuum cleaner, an ‘art activist collective of one’.