Contemporary Theatre Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary Theatre Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes on Contributors17
Adapting​ David Foster Wallace for​ the Swiss National Stage: An Interview with Yana Ross7
No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud3
Editorial 31.42
Disorienting Settler-Phenomenology: Architecture Drag and the Dramaturgy of Archive Misalignment2
Re-Readings2
Philippine Catholic Festivals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performing Live in the ‘New’ Normal1
Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism1
Hear-Telling the Chauraasi Archive: Performing Testimony After Trauma1
A Text is a Pure Image. Correspondence Around Mapa Teatro1
Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe1
‘Mr. Blue Sky’ in the West End: Becoming Musical in Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour1
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Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s1
An Irish Perspective on Festival Making in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of St. Patrick’s Festival1
Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social ReformLiberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform by1
The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public CultureThe Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture 1
The Apolline, the Dionysiac, and Spectatorship in Punchdrunk’s Masked Performances0
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On GIFT (Gateshead International Festival of Theatre) 20220
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Decolonising Attention in and through Live Art0
Disability Art is Dead, Long Live Disability Art!: The Sick Crip Disabled Avant-Garde0
To Expand the Possibilities of Performance: Laura Nanni on SummerWorks0
TransMission: Sissy TV0
Festivals in the COVID Age of Crisis0
‘Brecht in Practice’: Critical Reflections on Staging Drama Dialectically0
Re-Readings0
Towards an Eighth Fire Approach: Developing Modes of Indigenous-Settler Performance-Making on Turtle Island0
Epistemology of the Locker Room: A Queer Glance at the Physical Culture Archive0
Abstracts0
Off Sites: Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-specific0
Live Art: Radicalism and Complicity in a Scene of Constraint0
Looking onto the Boulder0
Staging Beckettian Minds: Umwelt and Cartesian Stage Space in Beckett’s Plays0
Not Yet and Elsewhere: Locating Lesbian Identity in Performance Archives, as Performance Archives0
Storying Silenced Queer Narratives: Koleka Putuma’s re-membering and re-memorying of Queer Trauma in No Easter Sunday for Queers (2019)0
Re-readings0
Editorial 33.30
Rethinking Didactic Theatre for a Young Audience0
auralia.space, digital platform for Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Post-Verbatim, Amplified Storytelling and Gig Theatre in the Digital Age0
DARK ROOM. Sleaze and the Queer Archive0
A Dialogue with Walter Meierjohann on Theatre, Installation, and Binaural Sound0
Enacted Offstage Images, Reported Onstage Action, and Parallel Fictional Worlds in Dead Centre’s Chekhov’s First Play (2015) and Tim Crouch and Rachana Jadhav’s 0
‘Process is Everything’: Interviewing Simon Stone in 20230
Realness & the Digital Archive: South African Drag Online0
On the Edge: Straddling (Anti)normativity in Queer Performance0
Playing Dead: The Post-Tragic Impact of Child Actors in Simon Stone’s (2020) and Anne-Louise Sarks and Kate Mulvany’s (2012) Medea0
Immigration Infrastructure Theatricalised in Illegalised and The Claim0
Abstracts0
Editorial 32.20
The Decolonial Labour and the Gift of Contemporary Sámi Performance0
Blackness and Self-Imaging: Lorraine O’Grady’s Performance as Mademoiselle Bourgeoise Noire0
The Pervasive Real: Virtual Co-Presence in Jordan Tannahill’s YouTube Play rihannaboi950
Beyond Broadway: the Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America0
Theatre in Market Economies0
‘Entrances’, ‘Exits’ or ‘Nodes’, ‘Edges’, ‘Clusters’?: Simon Stone, & the Director as a ‘Network Subject’0
Performance Practices and the Conflict of Memory in Colombia: Working Towards a ‘Decolonial’ Digital Archive and Epistemological Justice0
‘Who Cares?’: The Neoliberal Problem of Performing Care in Immersive and Participatory Play0
Playing Slaughter: On Staging Animal Deaths and Entangling Art with Life0
Staging International Theatre Festivals in Mid-Pandemic Russia: An Interview with Roman Dolzhanskiy0
On Scent in Theatre Audience Research: Sensory Mining and Olfactory Archives0
Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief0
The Importance of Congregation0
A Conversation about Fortune With Simon Stephens, Sean Holmes, Paul Wills, and Atsuro Hirota0
Joining a Festival During a Pandemic: Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill Discuss the Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal-based Festival TransAmériques (FTA)0
Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space0
‘Silliness and Childishness and Playfulness’: Interviewing Simon Stone in 20130
GIFT: Developing New Communities of Work0
Sixteen Things We Learned about Programming for Film Festivals under COVID0
Slow, Spectacular Labours: Liveness in Contemporary Dance0
Ghosts and Jumbies: Decolonial Live Art in Scotland0
Questions of Presence and Absence: Lessons from the Pandemic0
Cronies, Cliques and Lovers: Queer Friendship as Anti-Institutional Practice in UK Live Art Festivals0
Abstracts0
Power, Perception, and Professionalism: An Empirical Study of Digital Theatre Criticism in Canada0
Theatrical Affordances to Stage the Perceived-Experienced Reality of People with Dementia: Florian Zeller’s Dramaturgy of Porosity in The Father0
Outing Pleasure and Indulgence: Indubala’s Scrapbook and the Red-Light Dances of Calcutta0
Kings, Queens, Monsters, and Things: Digital Drag Performance and Queer Moves in Artificial Intelligence (AI)0
The Dark Theatre: A Book About Loss0
Dancing the Archive Brown, Dancing the Archive Other in Akram Khan’s XENOS (2018)0
The Power of Disruption: The Future Is Creatively Vibrant at Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland Arts Festival)0
Marcia Farquhar and I0
Notes on Contributors0
The Węgajty Theatre: From Collectivity to Participation0
Theater in a Post-Truth World: Texts, Politics, and Performance0
Essential Work: Eastern European Immigrants and Models of Participation0
Live Art and Neurotransgression0
Essayistic Ventures in the Wake of Diasporas 10
Commodity Trailing Contemporary Performance: Sh!t Theatre’s DollyWould and Selina Thompson’s salt0
Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating0
Sonic Spectral Summoning0
Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common0
Translating Simon Stone’s Radical Rewritings into German0
Introduction: Outing Archives, Archives Outing0
Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-century America0
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Staging the Human Remnant in the Anthropocene: Breaking the First Wall in Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati’s Inside0
Micro-Festivals on the Fringe: The OFF d’Avignon in 20200
Contemporary Catastrophes: 2010s British Climate Crisis Theatre and Performativity0
Performance and the Critique of Resilience in Culture (England, 2004–2020)0
Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication0
The Laws of Movement: The Natyashastra as Archive for Indian Classical Dance0
Black Sheep: Rasheed Araeen, David Medalla, and Reconfigurations of Visibility in the 1970s0
Let it Burn: Smell, Participation, and Solidarity in Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz0
Haunted Taxonomies, Converging Temporalities: Queer Ghosts on the Stages of Istanbul0
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Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research0
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Festivals in the Pandemic0
Attempts at a Description: Rose English’s Plato’s Chair and the Hear Tell0
Shakespeare in Cyborg Theatre: Immersive VR Theatre and the Cyborg-Subject0
LIFT’s Shifts: Concept Touring & Times of Precarity0
Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure0
Project Nationalism and Theatre in Contemporary India0
Editorial 31.30
Evolving into Chameleons: Survival Strategies for Tampere Theatre Festival during the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin by Olivia Landry0
Surviving and Sustaining in Live Art in Birmingham: Toni Lewis and Demi Nandhra in Conversation0
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‘Live Art Vibes’ in Digital Culture – Affective Performances and Migrant Aesthetics from Eastern Europe0
Transnational Queer-Feminist Methodologies in Live Art: Issues of Translation and Representation in Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi’s Work0
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‘It’s Alive’: Towards a Monsterized Theatre with Beatbox Academy’s Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster0
Introduction: Simon Stone and Company0
MIF Festival 2021 and COVID-190
Performing Specimens: Contemporary Performance and Biomedical Display0
Colour-blind Casting in Twenty-First Century British Theatre: Colourism, Racism, and the Representation of Black People on Stage0
‘Isra-Drama: Exposure as Dialogue’0
A Self-Indulgent Narcissus : Performing Marxist Humanism as Individualism in the Work of Petr Štembera0
Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance0
Staying at the Level of Impulses: Queering the Grotowski Archive in Karol Radziszewski’s The Prince0
Share Your Work: Lola Arias’s Lecture Performance Series and the Artistic Cognitariat of the Global Pandemic0
‘Why Was I Born Among Mirrors?’: Hyper-(In)visibility in Simon Stone’s Yerma0
Editorial 34.20
Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances0
Liyuanxi – Chinese ‘Pear Garden TheatreLiyuanxi – Chinese ‘Pear Garden Theatre’ by Josh StenbergLondon: Methuen Drama, 2022, 174 pp, ISBN 9781350157392 (hardback)0
Who Cares?: Ethics and Practices of Care and Making Change in Contemporary Queer Performance Production0
This is My Body: The Queer Messianic Dysphoria of The Pink Supper0
Decolonizing Site-Specific Performance Methodologies: Preliminary Steps0
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What’s Queer about Queer Performance Now?0
Dramaturgy of Extinction: Sentient Landscapes, Spectral Bodies, and Unthought Worlds in Kris Verdonck’s Conversations (at the end of the world) and SOMETHING (out of nothing)0
Holding the Irish Queer Archive: An Interview with Louise Lowe and Lynnette Moran on ANU Productions’ Faultline0
ReWild(e)ing Queer Performance0
Critical Anachronisms: Wael Shawky’s The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version0
Conservative Experiments: Women’s Rewritings of The Imperial Stele Pavilion in the Twenty-First Century0
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Mitigating Anxieties: Cleaving as Queer Becoming0
Editorial 32.10
Multilingualism on the Berlin Stage: The Influence of Language Choice, Linguistic Access and Opacity on Cultural Diversity and Access in Contemporary Theatre0
Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities0
Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre, Thought, and Mental Suffering0
A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood & Other Traumas0
Notes on Contributors0
Publics and Their Health: La Grande Manifestive, Aurillac, 20210
The Future Stared Back at Us for the First Time: Black Holes Revisited0
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