Interventions

Interventions are specially developed online features that add to and extend the themes and topics explored in the print journal.  To propose content for the website, see the guidance for submissions.

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  • June 2021 Archives are a SCAM!
    Reflecting on his research on folk performances in subaltern communities in India, Brahma Prakash, in his article “Archives are a SCAM!”, critically considers the politics concerning structural archival conventions.
  • June 2021 Interventions: Summer 2021
    Summer 2021: Outing Archives, Archives Outing
  • June 2021 Dispatches: Ramzi Maqdisi
    17-06-21: Through prose and soundscape, Ramzi Maqdisi reflects on his aural experiences of Palestine in response to the recent violence in Jerusalem.
  • June 2021 On Being, Knowing, and Doing
    In this dialogue based article Vicki Couzens and Priya Srinivasan think through decolonization from the place of praxis and cultural artistic exchanges in the Australian context.
  • June 2021 More Now. Notes on the past in online documentary theatre
    Wojtek Ziemilski presents a multilayered hypertext in response to Lola Arias’ documentary theatre workshop Mis Documentos, playing with autobiography and the digital in archival performance.
  • June 2021 Fugitivity through Black digitality: podcasting in the Black Plays Archive
    Nadine Deller considers the impact of institutional whiteness on her position as a Black “mixed-race” researcher and how developing a podcast on Black British theatre history helped her negotiate “Black fugitivity” within the BPA.​
202020192018
  • December 2018 Interventions
    Broderick Chow and Ella Parry-Davies introduce this set of interventions onTransnational Physical Cultures - three terms that are by their nature slippery and contested.
  • December 2018 Shadow/Boxing
    Robyn Mayol and Ella Parry-Davies’ soundwalk ‘Shadow/Boxing’ takes us on a journey through east London’s Bethnal Green, ghosted by the voices of participants in a Muay Thai-based social care group.
  • December 2018 Leaving a Secret Place
    In his performative text ‘Leaving a Secret Place’, Raafat Majzoub explores how to shift through transitions between the competing fictive worlds of the powerful and the marginalised.
  • December 2018 “It’s Your Whole-Ass Body!”
    In this interview, Kelechi Okafor – owner of South London dance studio Kelechnekoff – discusses the transnationalism of twerk, anti-racism and black advocacy in fitness, and transformation in physical culture.
  • December 2018 The Dynamic Tensions Physical Culture Show
    Broderick Chow presents documentation from The Dynamic Tensions Physical Culture Show, performed at the Anatomy Museum, King’s College London, and explains its intervention into the history of physical culture and fitness.
  • November 2018 Leaving a Secret Place v3
    Leaving a secret place Raafat Majzoub Every time I have approached writing for the past twelve months, I have consumed that time in writing and […]
  • November 2018 Leaving a Secret Place v2
    Raafat Majzoub Every time I have approached writing for the past twelve months, I have consumed that time in writing and editing a very long, […]
  • November 2018 Leaving a Secret Place v1
     
  • July 2018 Latest journal: Volume 28, Issue 3
    Edited by Sarah Gorman, Geraldine Harris & Jen Harvie Drawing on examples from around the globe, and including a range of forms of theatre, burlesque, performance art and political action, this special issue celebrates “Feminisms Now”.
  • July 2018 Interventions 28.3
    Alongside this special issue on "Feminisms Now", these online Interventions celebrate the formal and conceptual diversity of both feminist performance and scholarship.
  • July 2018 “Let me be part of the narrative” – The Schuyler Sisters ‘almost’ feminist?
    With its hip-hop aesthetics and colour conscious casting, Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical is an international phenomenon – but, Clare Chandler asks, what agency does it give its female characters?
  • July 2018 Reclaiming “Whatever!”: Half Straddle as Exemplar of Contemporary Feminist Theatre
    Some of New York company Half Straddle were once students of Gwendolyn Alker; now she takes her current students to see their work. Here she reflects on their ‘gloriously queer’ aesthetics and lineages of feminism.
  • July 2018 Because softness means being careful with one’s self
    "Because softness means being careful with one's self", an audio work by Jessica Worden, both describes and enacts an aesthetics (and ethics) of softness, vulnerability and care.
  • June 2018 Latest journal: Volume 28, Issue 2
    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.
  • June 2018 Interventions 28.2
    Duška Radosavljević introduces this special issue of CTR Interventions on the controversial European theatre director Oliver Frljić.
  • June 2018 Oliver Frljić interviewed by Duška Radosavljević
    In an interview with Duška Radosavljević, Oliver Frljić discusses his early encounters with the theatre in Split and Zagreb, key productions in his oeuvre, and international collaborations.
  • June 2018 Dissensual Politics of Performance
    Andrej Mirčev explores the controversy that greeted Our Violence and Your Violence (2016) when it premiered in Split, Croatia, through Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus.
  • June 2018 Who’s afraid of Oliver Frljić?
    Aljoscha Begrich, dramaturg at Gorki Theater Berlin, reflects on the many Frljić productions and many Frljić’s he has encountered before working on the new Gorki – Alternative für Deutschland.
  • June 2018 Teatr Powszechny: Frljić’s theatre playground
    Agnieszka Jakimiak, dramaturg on The Curse, reflects on that production and its controversy, arguing that Frljić’s work attempts to dismantle the complicity of representation with power.
  • June 2018 What on earth is happening in Poland? On Klątwa, protest, and a new regime
    Bryce Lease discusses the protests that followed the premiere of Klątwa (The Curse) in Warsaw, in the context of political transformations and firings of artistic directors in Poland.
  • January 2018 Interventions
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  • January 2018 Incommensurable Corporealities? Touretteshero’s Not I
    Derval Tubridy’s reflects on a performance of Beckett’s Not I by Jess Thom of Touretteshero, raising questions about neurodiversity and agency explored through the text.
  • January 2018 End/Lessness
    Jonathan Heron discusses his series of projects with the late Beckett theatre scholar and performer, Rosemary Pountney, and the digital iterations and traces of that collaboration.
  • January 2018 Virtual Play: Beckettian Experiments in Virtual Reality
    In 'Virtual Play', Nicholas Johnson and Néill O’Dwyer reflect on a series of projects that use twenty-first century technologies to creatively interpret Beckett’s plays.
  • January 2018 Beckett, Ireland and the Biographical Festival: A Symposium
    Reporting on a symposium they co-organised, Trish McTighe and Kathryn White argue that an analysis of festival culture is an important aspect of the consideration of Beckett’s place within contemporary art.
2013
  • January 2013 Latest journal
    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. The latest issue is available on Taylor & Francis Online >>
2017
  • December 2017 Interventions
    We know the public realm is in crisis; we’ve known this for some time. We know that public institutions have fewer resources and less capacity. […]
  • December 2017 Free Dissociations
    Simon Bayly, with Johanna Linsley, probe the state of 'contact', relation and non-relation, and the limits of writing for approaching all of these.
  • December 2017 Civic Inquiry: Interview with Jen Harvie
    Jen Harvie discusses her experience as specialist advisor to an inquiry into skills for theatre for the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications.
  • December 2017 Gendered Bodies in Motion: Representation of Iranian Women Dancers in Public Spaces of Tehran
    Elaheh Hatami and Sepideh Ghalam explore how women dancing in public spaces in post-revolution Iran challenge a state regime that regulates and controls women’s bodies.
  • December 2017 Civic Violence: Grappling with Life in the UK
    Broderick D.V. Chow, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Bryce Lease, Royona Mitra, Grant Peterson, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, and Joshua Abrams reflect on gaining Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK.
  • July 2017 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions expands on the topics of the special issue ‘Encountering the Digital’ (Contemporary Theatre Review, 27.3). Through a number of intermedial and […]
  • July 2017 Sound Choreographer <> Body Code
    Alex McLean and Kate Sicchio reflect on their collaborations around dance and code, focusing on their piece Sound Choreographer Body Code, which uses your computer's microphone to generate choreographic instructions.
  • July 2017 Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE)
    In this playful video, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck interviews Tei Blow and Sean McElroy from Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) about their use of karaoke, ritual, metaphysics, and media.
  • July 2017 Digital Arts Organisations: 3-Legged Dog and The Space
    Andy Lavender discusses digital culture with Kevin Cunningham, Executive Artistic Director of 3-Legged Dog, NY (USA), and Fiona Cunningham, Chief Executive of The Space, Birmingham/London (UK).
  • July 2017 Fluidity and friendship: the choir that surprised the city
    Elena Marchevska talks with activists-researchers Nita Çavolli, Jana Jakimovska, and Katerina Mojanchevska about democracy, location, and media in song protests of the Skopje choir Raspeani Skopjani.
  • December 2017 Latest journal: Volume 27, 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.
  • June 2017 Latest journal: Volume 27, Issue 2
    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.
  • June 2017 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions attends to collaboration as a method of theatre-making and scholarship, and as a way of studying their conditions of possibility.
  • May 2017 Hidden Vacancies
    Hillary Miller analyses the curatorial and real estate collusions involved in Coney Island’s Art Walls.
  • May 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar
    The research collective After Performance explores how vulnerability might productively work against the norm of ‘lonely scholarship’.
  • May 2017 Dyspraxic Collaboration
    Daniel Oliver and Luke Ferris’ video on/of ‘dyspraxic collaboration’ unapologetically performs the generative possibilities of ‘inattentivity’.
  • June 2017 Learning to stand together
    In this interview, Elyssa Livergant and the Precarious Workers Brigade consider the relationship between higher education, the cultural industries and labour through the theme of collaboration.
  • June 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar – v5b
    The research collective After Performance explores how vulnerability might productively work against the norm of ‘lonely scholarship’.
  • May 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar v1
    After Performance Working Group [Screens.] Academic writing is a performance of vulnerability normally enacted alone. As lonely authors, we experience vulnerability as a lack of […]
  • May 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar v2
    After Performance Working Group                           [Screens.] Academic writing is a performance of vulnerability […]
  • June 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar – v6
    The research collective After Performance explores how vulnerability might productively work against the norm of ‘lonely scholarship’.
  • June 2017 Vulnerability and the Lonely Scholar – v7 – parallax
    The research collective After Performance explores how vulnerability might productively work against the norm of ‘lonely scholarship’.
  • February 2017 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions extends some of the ideas and practices behind this quarter's special issue on ‘Theatre, Performance and the Amateur Turn’.
  • February 2017 Evocative Objects
    'Evocative Objects' collects the stories and memories behind objects brought by amateur theatre-makers to research workshops.
  • February 2017 ‘You start an amateur and you end up an amateur’
    Nadine Holdsworth interviews 81-year-old Arthur Aldridge about a career that has moved between amateur theatre and the West End.
  • February 2017 Amateur Theatre in the Royal Navy
    This slideshow of archival and contemporary images offers a guided tour of amateur theatre in the Royal Navy.
  • February 2017 Twenty-First Century Amateurs and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages Initiative
    Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research, Molly Flynn reflects on the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages initiative that involved over 300 amateur theatre companies.
2016
  • November 2016 Interventions
    Georgina Guy and Johanna Linsley introduce ideas of permissibility and allowance which frame this special collection of Interventions.
  • December 2016 ‘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.
  • December 2016 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.
  • December 2016 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.
  • December 2016 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.
  • December 2016 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.
  • September 2016 Latest journal: Volume 26, Issue 3
    Special Issue: Simon Stephens: British Playwright in Dialogue with Europe, edited by David Barnett This latest issue of Contemporary Theatre Review collects critical perspectives on the work of contemporary playwright Simon Stephens, with particular focus on his collaborative relationships with directors and the productive exchange between British and European theatre-making practices.
  • July 2016 Interventions
    In his Introduction to this issue of Interventions, Adam Alston reflects, post-Brexit, on the prescience of Simon Stephens as an especially European British writer.
  • July 2016 Things That Always Tend to Happen in Simon Stephens’ Plays
    Louise LePage uses video as critical medium, assembling a cast of scholars to respond to Billy Smart’s provocation regarding ‘things that always tend to happen in Simon Stephens’ plays’.
  • July 2016 When Little is Said and Feminism is Done? Simon Stephens, the Critical Blogosphere and Modern Misogyny
    Melissa Poll uses this online forum to argue that many criticisms of Stephens’ Three Kingdoms, including the main articles in this special issue, avoid grappling with its ‘modern misogyny’.
  • July 2016 Harper Regan by Simon Stephens: through a Greek lens
    Reflecting on her staging of Stephens’ Harper Regan in the United States, Gaye Taylor Upchurch asks: ‘why is a woman with agency still such a scary notion?’
  • July 2016 The Funfair: A New Adaptation by Simon Stephens
    Walter Meierjohann discusses his production of Stephens’ The Funfair for the opening season at HOME, Manchester, in light of nationalist resurgence in the UK.
  • April 2016 Latest journal: Volume 26, Issue 2
    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.
  • April 2016 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions explores what the digital might offer to performance scholarship, practice, and criticism.
  • April 2016 Postmedia Performance
    In ‘Postmedia Performance’ Sarah Bay-Cheng offers theatre and performance scholarship a provocation to rethink its approach to making sense of the digital.
  • March 2016 Megan Vaughan – Public Twine
    Using the interactive storytelling tool Twine, Megan Vaughan brings recent performances, public space and spaces of encounter into conversation.
  • April 2016 Possible Public and Private Narratives
    Johanna Linsley talks with artist Brian House about his recent projects and the relationship between data gathering, participatory systems and the performance of the private and public.
  • April 2016 Listening post: Public voices on the digital stage
    ‘Listening Post’ is a curated collection of artistic projects and critical reflections that offer insight into the performance of the vox populi, the ‘the voice of the people’.
  • January 2016 Latest journal: Volume 26, Issue 1
    David Greig: Dramaturgies of Encounter and Engagement Edited by Jacqueline Bolton This special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review focuses on the work of contemporary Scottish playwright David Greig. Emerging from a symposium held around the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the issue addresses issues of national identity and globalization, utopianism and dissensus, and political engagement and participatory practice.
  • January 2016 Interventions
    Greig Interventions
  • January 2016 Dan Rebellato in conversation with David Greig
    In this excerpt from a live conversation, Dan Rebellato talks with David Greig about what it's like to have his work critically analysed and the playwright's process of writing of The Events (2013).
  • January 2016 “CONJURORS! CONJURORS!…Who wrote this!”*: Some Reflections on Lanark: A Life in Three Acts
    Victoria E. Price offers reflections on the 2015 production of Lanark: A Life in Three Acts, Greig's adaptation of the 1981 Alasdair Gray novel of postmodern Scottish identity.
  • January 2016 Welcome to the Fringe
    Welcome To The Fringe, a collaboration between David Greig, Forest Fringe, and London’s Gate Theatre, supported Palestinian artists in visiting and presenting at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  • January 2016 Butterfly Mind
    An Adventure In Contemporary Shamanic Soul Retrieval… David Greig It is October 2014 and I have lost my way. I’m on walking holiday in southern […]
2015
  • October 2015 Latest journal: Volume 25, Issue 4
    From a close reading of a recent playscript to an analysis of interventions in spectator relations, and from configurations of femininity in Japanese Butoh to the use of ‘play’ in the ceremonies of the Shona people of southern Africa, this latest journal reflects a breadth of contemporary theatre practices as well as a variety of scholarly modes of engagement with them.
  • October 2015 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions focuses on the relationship between ‘practice’ and ‘research’, offering four different case studies in which these concepts are configured in quite different ways.
  • October 2015 World Factory: The politics of conversation
    In this cross-disciplinary forum, the research project and interactive performance World Factory, directed by Zoë Svendsen, is discussed from multiple perspectives ranging from social geography to marketing.
  • October 2015 The Sick of the Fringe
    Brian Lobel and Hannah Maxwell assess The Sick of the Fringe, a Wellcome Trust-funded programme of talks and events exploring the relationship between medicine and the arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  • October 2015 Infecting Archives: An interview with Martin O’Brien
    In ‘Infecting Archives’, Johanna Linsley talks with Martin O’Brien about his collaboration with Sheree Rose and their work with the Bob Flanagan archive at the ONE Lesbian and Gay Archive.
  • October 2015 Karen Christopher: The duet residencies
    Following ‘duet residencies’ with Chris Goode and Lucy Cash, performance-maker Karen Christopher reflects on how the artistic residency might remain open to collaboration, surprise, and even mayhem.
  • July 2015 Latest journal: Volume 25, Issue 3
    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.
  • July 2015 Interventions
    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’.
  • July 2015 Domestic Gestures
    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.
  • July 2015 ‘How do we imagine something other than what there is?’ An interview with the vacuum cleaner
    '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’.
  • July 2015 Celebrating Margaretta D’Arcy’s Theatrical Activism
    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.
  • July 2015 Irresistible Images
    In this interview Shane Boyle and Larry Bogard reflect on the relationship between performance and protest through a critical exploration of the ‘irresistible image’.
  • April 2015 Latest journal: Volume 25, Issue 2
    Special Issue: Electoral Theatre Edited by Stephen Bottoms and Brenda Hollweg This edition of Contemporary Theatre Review is timed to coincide with the UK General Election of May 2015. It deals in part with theatre about electoral politics, but also considers electoral politics as a kind of theatre, taking an interdisciplinary approach to affective dimensions of voting, dramaturgical strategies of address, and critiques of broadcast media.
  • April 2015 Interventions
    This issue of Interventions looks ahead to the UK General Election on 7 May 2015 and accompanies a newly published Special Edition of the print journal on ‘Electoral Theatre’.
  • April 2015 Parallel Interview with Jonathan Petherbridge from London Bubble and Tom Bowtell from Coney
    In this ‘parallel interview’, Jonathan Petherbridge from London Bubble and Tom Bowtell from Coney reflect on electoral democracy and acts of voting as core themes in their recent work.
  • April 2015 Acts of Voting: A Lexicon
    Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager compile a ‘lexicon’ on acts of voting, presenting contributions from 26 scholars who explore the ambitions, achievements and economies of voting in Europe.
  • April 2015 Early Days: Reflections on the Performance of a Referendum
    A short film by Laura Bissell and David Overend on theatre, performance, and the Scottish Referendum, featuring interviews with Christine Hamilton and Scottish theatre and performance-makers.
  • March 2015 ‘…faces behind the numbers’: Rimini Protokoll and Daniel Koczy discuss 100% City
    The topics of demography and representation are foregrounded in Daniel Koczy’s interview with Rimini Protokoll, which focuses on the challenges of staging populations in their 100% City project.
  • February 2015 Latest journal: Volume 25, Issue 1
    The Politics, Processes and Practices of Editing This special issue, guest-edited by Maria M. Delgado and Joanne Tompkins (current coeditor of Theatre Journal) brings together 33 short essays offering critical reflections and commentaries on the myriad practices, problems and provocations of editing. It is a conversation about how – as editors in formal and informal capacities – we write, how we curate, how we fashion and formulate, how we shape and feedback, and the changes and challenges that the digital era has introduced.
  • February 2015 Editing Ourselves into History: A Live Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
    Various participants reflect on a recent ‘edit-a-thon’ that sought to redress the invisibility of feminist Live Art practices within Wikipedia.
  • February 2015 Postgraduate/Early-Career Researcher Forum on Academic Publishing
    This forum, curated by Charlotte Bell, offers five different views from postgraduates and early-career researchers on the shifting landscape of academic publishing.
  • February 2015 NOTA
    NOTA, an ongoing responsive framework by Open Dialogues, foregrounds the act of writing and collapses the distance between performance and critical response.
  • February 2015 Delegitimizing the Performance Document: Tales from the Open Call
    ‘So what is Performance if it includes this?’ asks Yelena Gluzman, editor of the deliberately non-selective compendium Emergency Index.
  • January 2015 25th anniversary special issue – editors’ collection
    2015 marks the 25th anniversary of Contemporary Theatre Review, and to celebrate the current editors have hand-picked a selection of articles to showcase the journal’s […]
2014
  • August 2014 Conference
    12th December 2014, conference on Martin Crimp at the Royal Court. Here's an example of a news/announcement linking through to a post page. The post is tagged with 'news', that's how it appears here. Obviously, the styling of this box can be changed entirely.
  • August 2014 Keeping it Real: Stories and the Telling of Stories at the Royal Court
    Dan Rebellato teases apart the reputation for realism at the Royal Court, where many of Crimp’s plays have premiered.
  • August 2014 Writer or Director? The Case of Martin Crimp
    Aleks Sierz, author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp, challenges the binary opposition of writer and director in Crimp’s work.
  • August 2014 Sounding Crimp’s Verbal Stage: The Translator’s Challenge
    Elisabeth Angel-Perez, who contributes a longer article to the special issue, reflects on the challenges of translating Crimp’s world where ‘acts of language are all there is to “see”‘.
  • August 2014 Composition as Textual Illumination: Martin Crimp and George Benjamin Discuss Written on Skin
    Watch a video of Martin Crimp in conversation with composer George Benjamin about their collaboration on the 2012 opera Written on Skin.
  • May 2014 Latest journal: Volume 24, Issue 2
    As with a previous forum on theatre-maker Tim Crouch, this special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review focuses on a single writer, contemporary British playwright Martin Crimp. Titled ‘Dealing with Martin Crimp’, this issue documents and expands on a conference about the playwright held at the Royal Court in 2013. The source of Crimp’s originality is composed of a variety of factors that the articles in this issue address: distinctive writing strategies that continue to be refined, an understanding of internationalism but also of distinct cultural sensibilities, and the value of collaboration across a diverse range of genres and medias.
  • May 2014 Interventions
    This new website provides a gateway to Contemporary Theatre Review, as well as online Interventions that add to and complement the themes and topics of the journal.
  • May 2014 Comment: Sochi 2014
    Following on from a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on the 2012 London Games, Yana Meerzon and Lynne McCarthy address the cultural politics of the Sochi Olympics.
  • May 2014 Video: The radical in engaged practices
    Watch a collection of artist films and interviews coming out of Beyond Glorious, a symposium that explored connections between experimental forms and socially engaged practices.
  • May 2014 Audio: Performance Matters Crossovers
    Listen to a dialogue between Gareth Evans, Mike Dibb, Hugo Glendinning, Deborah Levy, and Alan Read, recorded as part of Crossovers, an initiative of the Performance Matters project.
  • May 2014 Parodying ‘Blurred Lines’ in the Feminist Blogosphere
    Geraldine Harris, whose discussion of ‘post-post-feminism’ appears in the latest print issue, comments here on the proliferation of online parodies of Robin Thicke’s controversial ‘Blurred Lines’.