Thinking Through Theatre and Performance

Introduction, by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher and Heike Roms
Part 1: Watching
1. Why study drama? by Joe Kelleher (University of Roehampton, London, UK)
2. What do performances do to spectators? by Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
3. How can the theatre be fully accessible? by Colette Conroy (University of Hull, UK)
4. How does stage performance think through cultural convention? by Sean Metzger (UCLA, USA)
5. How does theatre represent economic systems? by Louise Owen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Part 2: Performing
6. What is Black dance? What can it do? by Thomas F. DeFrantz (Duke University, USA)
7. How does scenography think? by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
8. How does theatre think through things? by Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth University, UK)
9. How does theatre think through incorporating media? by Steve Dixon (LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore)
10. How does the trained body think? by Broderick D.V. Chow (Brunel University London, UK)
11. How does theatre think through work? by Theron Schmidt (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Part 3: Traces
12. What is an intercultural exchange? by Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore)
13. What is the impact of theatre and performance? by Sruti Bala (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
14. Does staging historical trauma reenact it? by Tavia Nyong'o (Yale University, USA)
15. How does theatre think through politics? by Jazmin Badong Llana (De La Salle University, Philippines)
16. How and why are performances documented? by Heike Roms (University of Exeter, UK)

Part 4: Interventions
17. How can performance disrupt institutional spaces? by Dominic Johnson (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
18. How does theatre think through ecology? by Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow, UK)
19. How does choreography think 'through' society? by Bojana Cvejic (Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway)
20. How does theatricality legitimize the law? by Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
21. How does theatre think through theatricality? by Adrian Kear (University of the Arts London, UK)

Index