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Threepenny Opera

Jurgen Often

THEATER HEUTE (2023)

Article Theater

The Forgotten History of Our Times: Revisiting Utpal Dutt's Titu Mir in Contemporary India

Mallarika Sinha Roy

Summary: This paper explores the recent revival of Utpal Dutt's play Titu Mir by Theatre Formation Paribartak in 2019 in India. It discusses the relevance of Titu Mir as a site and theory of materializing historical contradictions, as well as its exploration of political, historical, and feminist themes.

THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (2023)

Article Theater

Abhilash Pillai's Midnight's Children: Performing Politics through Optics

Ashis Sengupta

Summary: Abhilash Pillai's stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children introduced a new visual language to Indian theatre, blurring the boundaries between theatre and cinema. The production uses a multisensorial scenography inspired by Bollywood to present history as memory, amnesia, and re-remembering. The political significance of the performance lies in its optical dynamics and intervention in politico-aesthetic discourse, rather than its thematic elements.

THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (2023)

Article Theater

Staging Theatre Historiography: The Afterlives of Ottoman Armenian Drama in Contemporary Turkish Public Theatre

Seyda Nur Yildirim

Summary: In the past twenty years, there has been an increased attention to memory in Turkey's social, cultural, and political arena. This article focuses on the adaptation of Hagop Baronian's play "Adamnapuyj aravelyan" into "Sark Discisi" by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres (IBBST) in 2011. While promoting confrontation with the past, "Sark Discisi" overlooks the political insights of its source text and their relevance to contemporary demands for historical justice.

THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (2023)

Article Theater

'Circles of Women': Feminist Movements in the Choreography of Oona Doherty

Shonagh Hill

Summary: This article focuses on Oona Doherty's choreographies for groups of women in Belfast, exploring the diversity of feminisms and complex identities in Northern Ireland. By tracking the movement of feminisms in Doherty's works, the author examines how they mobilize and fail women, as well as the potential and pitfalls of community and solidarity.

THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (2023)

Biographical-Item Theater

The Publisher of the Century - On the Death of Maria Mueller-Sommer

Maria Mueller-Sommer

THEATER HEUTE (2023)

Article Theater

In the 'Display Case': (Capitalist) Realism and Simon Stone's 'Zoological' Ibsen

Margaret Hamilton

Summary: This paper examines how theatre practitioners are redefining the realist project, a form of theatre intrinsic to the ideological domestication of capitalism. It analyzes Simon Stone's production of The Wild Duck and Mark Fisher's theorization of capitalist realism, while also referencing Thomas Ostermeier's work and developments in British theatre. The paper argues that performances relying on the subject's capacity to know and represent the world may risk locating systemic issues within the closed fictional cosmos of situational dramatic art.

THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (2023)

Review Literature, British Isles

Santiago: Making Bilingual Shakespeare Count

James M. Sutton

Summary: Santiago is a bilingual script of Othello that offers a new perspective on the play, shifting focus to Iago and Emilia and exploring questions of religious and cultural identity. The script was performed and discussed at the 51st Annual Shakespeare Association of America Conference in 2023.

SHAKESPEARE (2023)

Book Review Literature, British Isles

Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good

Fernando Martinez Periset

SHAKESPEARE (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

Shakespeare from the Bottom: Transnationalism, Unfounded Whiteness, and the First Folio

Emily Weissbourd

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Literature, British Isles

Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors

Carol Mejia Laperle

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

A Moniment, without a tombe: Institution, Instruction, and Succession in Shakespeare's First Folio

Urvashi Chakravarty

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

Drowning the First Folio: Co-laboring and the Value of Knowledge in The Tempest

Nedda Mehdizadeh

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Literature, British Isles

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England

Dennis Austin Britton

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Literature, British Isles

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World

Kimberly Anne Coles

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

Books of the Unlearned: Shakespearean Iconicity and Black Atlantic Critique

Miles P. Grier

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Book Review Literature, British Isles

Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice

Katherine Gillen

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

On Shakespeare's Legacy, Critical Race, and Collective Futures

Jennifer Park

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)

Article Literature, British Isles

Whither are you bound: The Publication and Shaping of Shakespeare in 1623 and 1923

Brandi K. Adams

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (2023)