STP aims to document, critically reflect on, & theorise theatre & performance practices. Ed. @_TomSix @bryonylwhite @curtis_hj, Izdihar Afyouni, and mel varin
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What do circus zebras, war re-enactments & imperial masculinity have in common?
@UysMia & @WildPasts_ trace Frank Fillis’s South African circus horses as political performers—saddled with the weight of Empire.
📷 Mrs Hayes riding a zebra, 1891.
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What does it mean to stage a concert of a play?
In STP, Naoko Yagi traces how sound, silence, and utterance shape The Gigli Concert across its 1983 and 1991 Abbey Theatre productions—revealing how Murphy’s language sings when heard, not just read.
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Feeling together is never simple.
In STP, Kelsey Jacobson & Bethany Schaufler-Biback explore how audiences craft—and contest—the emotional fabric of live theatre, from shared joy to subtle exclusions.
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What can a shield remember?
In STP, Liza-Mare Syron examines the gumayi (spear) and yilimung (shield) in The Visitors—as stage objects grounded in Indigenous knowledge, ceremony, and resistance.
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How do white coats perform medicine?
Yixuan Gao reads Life Matters (2019) through costume studies—showing how doctors’ coats shape clinical identity, strain & care onscreen.
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📷 Figure 1. Bo Qin & Shiguang Fan, Life Matters. © Shanghai Media Group
How can theatre be a space for shared knowledge—not just impact?
Jonathon Crewe reflects on Under the Radar as a case study in embedding knowledge exchange through co-created performance & post-show dialogue.
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#PracticeResearch #STPJournal
What do Victorian ghosts want from the future?
@ElisavetIoanni2 revisits "Cloud Nine" through hauntology—tracing how Caryl Churchill’s ghosts speak to 1979’s political turn, spectral memory, and today’s unfinished futures.
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How can intermediality reshape how students learn, see, and perform?
In her latest for STP, @KatsouNatalie explores intermedial heterotopias—hybrid learning spaces where cameras, screens & identities converge in contextual theatre studies.
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ALT Wild Heterotopias. Augmented reality installation by Shuli Sadé. Copyright: Sadé studio, 2019. The Highline, NYC.
Can performance help evaluate energy policy?
@charlie_ingram3 explores Evaluative Performance as a method to capture youth perspectives on Smart Local Energy Systems—bridging climate policy & participatory arts.
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#ClimateJustice #YouthVoices
What happens when a pandemic disrupts a research agenda?
Jane Collins reflects on the Southall Ever After Festival, where community-led rethinking during COVID-19 reshaped diasporic identity, participation & cultural heritage.
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How can screens, cameras & digital tools reshape theatre pedagogy?
@KatsouNatalie explores intermedial heterotopias as hybrid learning spaces—where students reframe identity, space & context through embodied, media-rich practices.
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How does a hereditary puppetry form survive cultural shift?
Sohini Chanda & Archana Patnaik trace how danger putul nach in West Bengal adapts through innovation, oral history & state support—without losing its roots.
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What does it mean to perform by walking through a city’s waste?
@priyankapathak0 examines "Yamuna Walk" as embodied performance—where drifting through Delhi’s garbage sites becomes both ethnography and critique of urban exclusion.
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How are race and disability entangled on stage?
@pONDERado reads debbie tucker green’s "ear for eye"(2018) as staging “Blackness as disability,” where silence, muteness & marginalisation expose how race is prostheticised in British theatre.
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Elif Öztek explores the spatial politics of On İkinci Ev, a feminist Turkish play performed behind glass walls in urban spaces. Blending theatre and architecture, the study reveals how the play critiques patriarchal spatial norms.
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Marguerite Galizia redefines self-choreography as a relational practice, questioning isolation in solo dance. Drawing on Ettinger’s wit(h)nessing, she explores the shared Borderspace of performer and audience, where movement, time, and gaze coalesce. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14682761.202…
In her latest article, Amira I. Ramírez Salgado explores Cuerpo-Territorio through movement, mapping, and contact improvisation. How can the body be understood as a dynamic, relational space of knowledge and resistance? Photo: Kitzia Salgado
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Karl McIntyre’s latest article explores Alternative Miss World as a site of utopic queer solidarity. ✨🏳️🌈 Through @AndrewLoganAMw's dazzling pageant, moments of joy & resistance emerge—offering a vision of community beyond consumerism.
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The editorial in STP 44.2, by @_TomSix , honors the legacies of Rebecca Collins (1982–2024), known for her pioneering work on sonic expression, and Jim Davis (1949–2023), a leading scholar of 18th- & 19th-century theatre.
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Leah Everquill’s study of SIX the Musical @sixuktour highlights how the pop reimagining of Henry VIII’s wives amplifies female agency, challenges patriarchal narratives, and fosters solidarity through feminist humour and performance. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
