Latest journal: Volume 26, Issue 4

Read the latest issue of this international peer-reviewed journal that engages with the crucial issues and innovations in theatre today. Each issue includes in-depth articles addressing a range of topics and forms, reflections on the creative process collected in the Documents section, book reviews, and Backpages, a forum for immediate responses to current events from scholars and practitioners.

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Interventions 26.4 (December 2016)

Georgina Guy and Johanna Linsley introduce ideas of permissibility and allowance which frame this special collection of Interventions.

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‘And what places light up the air between you…’

PA Skantze and Laure Fernandez reflect on the modes of permissibility and allowance that attend their movements across national borders, and how these affect their work and lives.

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To Permit Refusal

Emma Cox inverts the liberal terms of the editors’ provocation to construct a powerful response to recent European referenda and increasing cultural permissions of exclusion.

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Two Episodes of Permission and Allowance: Oakland Summer 2016

Olive McKeon looks at two specific examples where permission is negotiated in real time, among physical bodies: one in a theatre space, and one in a street protest.

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Sex, Work, and Negative Affects in Participatory Performance

Owen G. Parry reflects intimately on the process of writing about his own one-to-one practice and the stakes of spaces of permissibility in performance.

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