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Source-based histories and case studies of theatre productions, collectives, projects, and international exchanges, with attention to archives, credits, and documented practice.
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A PLACE TO BEGIN / Collaboration & Practice
Theatre archives preserve the documentary residue of performance—programmes, prompt books, designs, photographs, contracts and press reviews—but not the live event itself. The gaps are shaped by who is invited to deposit material, what institutions collect, which languages and formats are legible, and…
Site-specific and immersive theatre are related performance forms that place audiences inside designed or found environments. Site-specific work is made for a particular place, while immersive work…
Theatre and cultural exchange is the study and practice of how performance moves across cultural boundaries and is transformed in the process. It ranges from early modern…
To reconstruct a production history, define the production precisely, then triangulate programmes, reviews and archival production documents. Programmes supply credits, dates, venues and production context; reviews supply…
Which Direction Home? was a festival of new work inspired by Homer's Odyssey, announced by The Internationalists for 21–29 July 2010, in which eight directors from six…
The Internationalists are documented as a directors’ collective in self-published pages and limited independent coverage. Their record includes a 2007 naming discussion, a first collaboration on the…
Intercultural theatre is the practice and study of deliberate exchange between theatrical traditions, cultures, and performance systems. It spans avant-garde borrowing, collaborative creation, diaspora performance, Indigenous and…
Around the World is an annual networked theatre project by the collective The Internationalists that presents plays simultaneously in multiple cities and online. It exemplifies how digital…
Hotel Project is a site-specific, single-spectator theatre format performed in hotel rooms. A documented 2012 iteration at the Grand Summit Hotel in Summit, New Jersey, was credited…
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