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New Scholars' workshops on Saturday 17th, at 11.00 and at 16.00 hs (UK/ Ireland time): "How to Write an Abstract?"To fac...
15/10/2026

New Scholars' workshops on Saturday 17th, at 11.00 and at 16.00 hs (UK/ Ireland time): "How to Write an Abstract?"

To facilitate participation for new scholars from various regions and time zones, we are offering two time slots.

Whether you are already familiar with the IFTR and wish to prepare your abstract, or are new to the Federation and would like to get to know us while doing so, we invite you to join one of the sessions.

'How to Write an Abstract'
17 October 2026
11:00 and 16:00 (UK time)

Chair:
Milija Gluhovic (Co-Chair of the New Scholars' Sub-Committee)

Panel:
- Patrick Lonergan (Co-Chair of the New Scholars' Sub-Committee)
- Ioanna Lioutsia (Representative of the IFTR 2027 Organising Team)
- Vanesa Cotroneo (IFTR Student Representative 2025–2027)

Registered participants will receive the Zoom link one day before the workshop.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1o0qeg2wXcsxiVHDcm7qWbzQF9EG9RAhqnDWTl3n6RpY/edit

EditorialTheatrical margins and peripheriesLisa FitzpatrickResearch ArticleNationalist Shakespeare in Korea: reshaping S...
14/10/2026

Editorial
Theatrical margins and peripheries
Lisa Fitzpatrick

Research Article
Nationalist Shakespeare in Korea: reshaping Shylock and Antonio in Changgeuk Merchants of Venice
Scott Shepherd

Clowns, politics and disobedience in the Catalan referendum for independence
Eva Aymami Rene

Chinese performance in the Victorian goldfields from the 1850s to 1870: the contradictions of resources and representations
Joanne Tompkins & Liyang Xia

Mediating history and trauma: White Storyteller and Taiwanese glove puppetry
Tzu-Yu Hung

A Theatre to come: posthumanism, vegetal thinking, and ecofeminism in Estado Vegetal (2017) by Manuela Infante
Marcia Martínez & Arnaldo Donoso

Why should we study Arabic theatre?
Hadeel Abdelhameed

Dossier: ‘Play, Care and Revolt: New Approaches to Workshop Facilitation’
Introduction
Introduction to ‘Play, care and revolt: new approaches to workshop facilitation’
Paola Botham & Aleksandar Dundjerovic

Discussion
The embodied writer: using somatic practice to challenge traditional workshop structures
Karen Morash

Authority melding: carnivalesque elements within reconciliation pedagogy
Maja Milatovic-Ovadia

How call-and-response facilitates restorative dialogic listening: reconstructing a transitional justice hearing as participatory performance
Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro & Sara Beth Lucas

Autistic perspectives in actor training: the pedagogical possibilities of re-examining eye contact
Zoë Glen

A Brecht-inspired approach to anti-racist education: working notes on the performative lecture A Lesson on Differences
Francesco Sani

Undoing the world together: feminist facilitation as play, care, and revolt
Alice Bell, Gaia Del Negro, Silvia Luraschi & Marina Sossi

Fostering connection without collapse: attuning to the third Space in participatory performance practice
Ellen Frances Wagstaff

Book Review
The pedagogic and the performative in Indian theatre: negotiations of a feminist collaborative imagination
by Indu Jain, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, Pp. xiv +196 + 18 illus., €139.99 (Hb), ISBN 9783031841439; €117.69 (eBook), ISBN 9783031841446
Trina Nileena Banerjee
Inside Chinese Theater: community and artistry in nineteenth-century California and beyond
by Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2025, Pp. xviii + 370 + 70 illus., $125 (hb), ISBN 9780252046537; $28 (pb), ISBN 9780252088636
Bao Yalin

Contemporary performance translation: challenges and opportunities for the global stage
by Jean Graham-Jones, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Pp. xii + 184, € 105.04 (hb), ISBN 9781009180122; € 37.35 (pb), ISBN 9781009180139; €37.35 (eBook), ISBN 9781009180115
Vanesa Cotroneo

Curating the commons: socially engaged public art
by Katia Arfara, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2025, Pp. xiii + 341 + 20 illus., $44.95 (pb), ISBN 9780472077795; $130 (hb), ISBN 9780472077793
Irene Gerogianni

Intersectionality in ‘folk’ performance through identity and expression
by Jashodhara Sen, Singapore, Springer Nature, 2026, Pp. xiv + 252, $159.99 (hb), ISBN 9789819522736
Sohail Hoda

Performance and human-animal entanglements
edited by Anna Wieczorkiewicz and Sylwia Siedlecka, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2026, Pp. 270 + 18 illus, £155.00 Hb, ISBN 9781041048268; £36.79 eBook, ISBN 9781003630128
Anna-Sophie Jürgens

Beyond the Sewol: activist theatre and performance in South Korea and the diaspora
by Areum Jeong, Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025, Pp. xiii + 201, $28.00 (Pb), ISBN 9798880701773 $75 (Hb), ISBN 9798880701766
Hayana Kim

Performing climates
by Eddie Paterson and Lara Stevens, with a contribution from Angie Abdilla, London and New York, Routledge, 2025, Pp. 154 + 17 illus., £ 44.95 (Pb), ISBN 9781032225609; £155 (Hb), ISBN 9781032225562
Carl Lavery

Utpal Dutt and political theatre in postcolonial India
by Mallarika Sinha Roy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Pp. 75, $23 (hb), ISBN 9781009500227
Elham Oghabi

South Asian disability and deaf theatres
by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2025, Pp. xxi + 148, £171.99 (Hb), £40.79, ISBN 9781032388298, £39.09 (eBook), ISBN 9781003346975
Shashank Shekhar & Smita Jha

The figure of the monster in global theatre: further essays on the aesthetics of disqualification
edited by Michael Chemers and Analola Santana, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2025, Pp. xv + 207 + 15 illus., £41.99/$57.99 (Pb), ISBN 9781032558370; £145.00/$190.00 (Hb), ISBN 9781032558394
Gheorghe Williams

Playing with plays: drama and early modern Chinese media ecologies
by Yinghui Wu, Leiden, Brill, 2025, Pp. xii + 280 + 27 illus., $125 (hb), ISBN 9789004714328
Nellie Yang

The results of the General Elections 2026 are as follows:President: Maria DelgadoVice President: Joanne TompkinsVice Pre...
06/10/2026

The results of the General Elections 2026 are as follows:

President: Maria Delgado
Vice President: Joanne Tompkins
Vice President: Ameet Parameswaran

Elected Members:
Oscar Serquiña

Priyanka Basu

Patrick Lonergan

Indu Jain

Joyce Osei Owusu

Samer Al-Saber

Student Member:
Anna- Lu Rausch

Congratulations to all!

IFTR New Membership Year, Abstract Submission and Bursary Application1. IFTR MEMBERSHIPThe new membership year (1 Oct 20...
01/10/2026

IFTR New Membership Year, Abstract Submission and Bursary Application

1. IFTR MEMBERSHIP
The new membership year (1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sep 2027) begins. Members can renew their membership by registering for a new one on IFTR.org.
If you had taken up membership before 30 Sep 2026, please note that your membership is now expired, regardless of when you had registered. An email from IFTR.org indicating that your account has been 'deleted' would have been sent to you.

As stated on IFTR.org, Membership is valid for one year, beginning 1 October and ending 30 September, regardless of when membership is acquired. There will be no rollover of membership or refund of membership fees should a member join for a period less than the work year (1 Oct to 30 Sep).

This was also made known during the General Assembly and indicated last year when IFTR moved the membership year from a calendar year to a work year (1 Oct to 30 Sep). The practice has been identical with Cambridge Core where membership expires at the end of the calendar year, regardless of when a member registers. However, it has come to our attention that a small number of members have recently joined IFTR, not realising that membership runs from 1 October to 30 September. If you are in this situation, and have joined between 1 to 29 September only, please email [email protected] or [email protected] to discuss options further.

There are also some members who joined / renewed their membership on 30 September 2026. For these members, it will be taken that their membership begins on 1 October 2026, only for this year. In the future, please only renew your membership from 1 October.

2. IFTR 2027 NAFPLION ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstract submission for the IFTR 2027 conference is now open. To submit an abstract, you must first be an IFTR member. Log in to your IFTR account, navigate to 'Conference 2027' and click on the 'Submit Your Abstract Here' button. Abstract submission closes on 2 November 2026.

3. IFTR 2027 NAFPLION BURSARY APPLICATION
The bursary application for IFTR 2027 is also now open. To submit an application, you must first be an IFTR member. Log in to your IFTR account, navigate to 'Bursaries' and click on 'Bursaries Application 2027 Napflion' button. Details of the bursary application process can be found on the same page. Bursary applications close on 31 October 2026.

Marcus Tan
Secretary-General (Communications)
on behalf of the Executive Committee

REMINDER: The IFTR invites applications for the New Scholars Prize and Helsinki Prize 2027. Applications are now open.Vi...
15/09/2026

REMINDER: The IFTR invites applications for the New Scholars Prize and Helsinki Prize 2027. Applications are now open.

Visit the IFTR website for more information, https://iftr.org/prizes/

Please note the deadline: 30 September 2026.

Theatre Research International Vol. 51 Issue 2 is now out. IFTR members may access the journal via the IFTR website (‘Wh...
15/09/2026

Theatre Research International Vol. 51 Issue 2 is now out.
IFTR members may access the journal via the IFTR website (‘Who we are’ / ‘Journal’) with their account login and password.

Editorial: Tragedy, Barbarism, and the Labour of Decolonization

Lisa Fitzpatrick



Research Article

Relaying Macbeth: reframing self-orientalism in the modernization of Asian traditional theatres

Bin Tang

Representing and commenting on history in Tipografic majuscul by Gianina Cărbunariu and Radu Jude

Armando Rotondi

The ‘real’ Ibsen theatre: the Residenztheater in Berlin and the growth of a critically engaged, egalitarian theatre culture

Ruth Schor

Melting snow, crying cranes: ecological philosophy and intermediality in the Kunqu Opera adaptations of Shishuo Xinyu

Yujun Xu

Using special postal cancels to reconstruct the movements of a theatre troupe: the case of Schaefer’s Märchen-Stadt Liliput

Dirk H. R. Spennemann

From repetition to care: probody artmaking and targeted choreography in performance

Peilin Liang

Layered encounters: embracing ethical dilemmas of applied immersive theatre in Port of Entry

Damon Krometis

Climate psychology as music theatre in Laura Bowler’s Houses Slide

Adrian Curtin

Seeing double: alcohol, gender, and English Nationalism in S**t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

Isabel Stuart

Artaud’s ‘An Affective Athleticism’: a speculative method for practice exploring contemporary psychophysiological acting methods

David Fenton



IFTR New Scholars Forum Essay Competition: Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions

Emotion (Jeong/Qing 情) as form in the tale of Chunhyang: contemporizing changgeuk and Yue Opera

Xu Caifang

Unity in travesty: reimagining the nation on the national stage

Lakshya Choudhary

“Why are they doing cabaret in the dark?”: blindness and simulation in Extant Theatre’s Effing and Blinding! Cabaret

Alison M. Mahoney

Voiceless but visible: staging q***r transgression in postcolonial Taiwan through Our Lady of the Flowers (2018)

Qi Wang



Dossier: On Complicity: Theatre, Performance and the Question of Palestine

Introduction to dossier – on complicity: theatre, performance, and the question of Palestine

Sruti Bala, Marcus Bell, Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal & Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

Theatre and performance scholarship ‘after Gaza’

Sruti Bala

Ecstasy Forensics, ‘Minor Detail’

Marcus Bell

Cutting the Tightrope: British Theatre and Palestine

Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal

This will not end well? Art, activism, and institutional control in times of Genocide

Phoebe Patey-Ferguson



Book Review

Cosmo-modernism and theatre in India

by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, New York, Columbia University Press, 2025, xv + 354 pp., £121.00/$145.00 (Hb), ISBN 9780231213844; £30.00/$37.00 (Pb), ISBN 9780231213851

Ashis Sengupta

Performing female intimacy in Japan’s Takarazuka Revue

by Nobuko Anan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 68 pp., £18.00 (eBook) ISBN 9781009554985

Yoshiko Fukushima

Mess and contemporary performance: complexity, containment, and collapse

by Harriet Curtis, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2025, x + 155 pp., $144.00 (hb), ISBN 9781032034195; $45.59 (eBook), ISBN 9781003187226

Priyanka Pathak

Butoh and Suzuki performance in Australia: bent legs on strange grounds, 1982-2023

by Jonathan W. Marshall, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2024, xiii + 330 pp., $138.00 (Hb/eBook Hb), ISBN 9789004712300; (eBook), ISBN 9789004712317

Alex Rogals

Cuerpos resilientes y disidentes: violencia político-sexual en el teatro transatlántico de posdictadura

by Osvaldo Sandoval-León, Madrid & Frankfurt, Iberoamericana-Verveurt, 2025, 238 pp., €36.00 (Hb), ISBN 9788491924876

Jennifer Joan Thompson

The IFTR invites applications for the New Scholars Prize and Helsinki Prize 2027. Applications are now open. Visit the I...
28/07/2026

The IFTR invites applications for the New Scholars Prize and Helsinki Prize 2027. Applications are now open.

Visit the IFTR website for more information, https://iftr.org/prizes/

Please note the deadline: 30 September 2026.

The Call for Papers for IFTR 2027, Nafplion, Greece is out!Visit https://iftr.org/conference-2027/ for more information ...
15/07/2026

The Call for Papers for IFTR 2027, Nafplion, Greece is out!

Visit https://iftr.org/conference-2027/ for more information and to download the CfP!

Please note that you have to be a member of the IFTR to submit the abstract or join the conference. To join as a member, visit the Home page of IFTR.org and select 'Register as a member'.

Key Dates:
Membership registration opens: 1 October 2026

Abstract submissions open: 1 October 2026

Deadline for abstract submissions: 2 November 2026

Notification of acceptance: 21 December 2026

Accommodation discounts: 1 January – 14 February 2027 (Please book accommodation as soon as possible, because Nafplio is a very popular tourist destination)

IFTR Member Access to Contemporary Theatre ReviewApart from the Federation's journal, Theatre Research International (TR...
13/07/2026

IFTR Member Access to Contemporary Theatre Review

Apart from the Federation's journal, Theatre Research International (TRI), IFTR members may access Contemporary Theatre Review (CTR), as part of their membership package.

A link and button is currently being set up on IFTR.org. However, access to CTR is ready and it can be done in the following way:

- Login to your member account on IFTR.org.

- Go to 'Who We Are', then 'Journal'. Click 'IFTR Member Access to Theatre Research International. Click Here'. You will be taken to TRI's page on Taylor and Francis's website.

-bOn the TRI page, locate the 'Journals' drop-down button at the top. Click.

- Locate 'Browse All Journals'. You can either do a search in the search bar or locate it alphabetically (on the left).

- You will then be able to access all issues of CTR.

An update will be provided when the direct link is set up on the 'Journal' page of IFTR.org.

Marcus Tan
Secretary-General (Communications)
Assistant Editor, Theatre Research International

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