Restaging Feminism by Elaine Aston

From an author with a pioneering and thirty-year-long commitment to the study of feminism and British theatre, Restaging Feminisms is for an intergenerational feminist-theatre readership: for those who are discovering relations between feminism and theatre for the first time and those re-encountering the feminist dynamics and their renewed resonance on the contemporary British stage.

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Royal Court: International, E. Aston & M. O'Thomas

The first-ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries.

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Drawing Investigations by S. Casey & G. Davies

How does drawing add shape to ideas? How does the artist accommodate to challenges and restraints of a particular environment? To what extent is a drawing complementary and continuous with its subject and where is it disruptive and provocative? Casey and Davies address these questions while focusing on artists working collaboratively and the use of drawing in challenging or unexpected environments.

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'A choreography of the senses' by Pip Dickens

Pip Dicken’s chapter reflects on the painter's studio as an environment organized to control and adjust the senses. Every artist has their own unique space, method of working and creative thought processes. The chapter attempts to provide glimpses, albeit through the veiled window of the studio, of what the senses contribute, how they are being organized and deployed, and if this process is directed consciously or subconsciously.

Glitch Poetics by Nathan A. Jones

Glitch Poetics figures glitch radically as a key aesthetic condition of the contemporary moment. A powerful exploration of how glitch works across writing, art and bodies, it reconfigures our understanding of technology as an aesthetic force that structures our world.

Olga Goriunova, Professor of Media, Royal Holloway University of London.

Glitch Poetics

Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena

Elfriede Jelinek has not shied from the major political topics of our times. The legacy of Nazism, the prevalence of right-wing populism, the war in Iraq, the ongoing financial crisis, humanitarian disasters, misogyny and sexism – all are tackled in formally innovative ways and across a wide range of genres by editors Allyson Fiddler and Karen Jürs-Munby.

Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena

The Happy Jug: a novel by Nathan A. Jones

An autofiction libretto by Nathan Jones and CD made in collaboration with the sound artist Kepla. Jones' novel is an attempt to explore what this kind of warped thinking requires from textual form, and thereafter of the speaking voice. Woven through the narrative is an essay on the relationship between experience and knowledge under current conditions.

The Happy Jug

A History of the Harlem Renaissance

Jonathan Munby's chapter on Rudolph Fisher explores his uniqueness among Harlem Renaissance authors in making Harlem itself the exclusive focus of his writing. He demonstrated keen powers of social observation in revealing how class, regional, phenotypical, and generational distinctions defined Harlem and shaped literary aesthetics.

A History of the Harlem Renaissance

Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age

Cami Rowe's publication re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. Drawing on applied theatre practices, this book shows that performance is inherently concerned with cooperative and collaborative encounters across difference, and performance might therefore support effective responses to digital populism.

'On Theatricality' R Rushton and A Quick

What is Theatricality? The contributions in this issue ask these and other questions in relation to a wide range of performance examples and possibilities. These include articles on The Wooster Group, Jan Fabre, Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson, and Goat Island, as well as reflections on theatricality and skill, sound, grief and violence, and on the politics of theatricality, theatricality and disability and immersive theatricality.

'On Theatricality'

The Erotic Reduction by Nigel Stewart

This chapter presents a case study of The Featherstonehaughs Draw on The Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele, a key work by leading British choreographer Lea Anderson (b. 1959). Stewart considers ways in which Anderson’s choreographic techniques re-frame the artworks of the great Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918), including his apparently “pornographic” depictions of himself and young Viennese women.

The Erotic Reduction

Theatricality and the Arts, A. Quick & R. Rushton

This is the first book collection to consider the notion of theatricality across a range of creative fields. Theatricality and the Arts presents a series of investigations of the notion of ‘theatricality’. Primarily, theatricality concerns that which pertains to theatre, but the term has always carried with it the potentially pejorative associations of exaggeration and fakery. The essays here question and contest such associations.