[Candrama] Theatre Research International 51.1

Fri May 22 03:09:30 EDT 2026

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for the cross-posting.
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Theatre Research International Vol. 51 Issue 1 <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtri20/current> is finally out and it's available on Taylor & Francis, our new publisher.

We apologise for this delay as the transfer to Taylor & Francis meant new processes needed to be attended to, but we're truly glad 51.1<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtri20/current> is now published. Unveiling a new cover design and colours which reflect the IFTR's, 51.1<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtri20/current> also charts a new direction for TRI, with expanded content and new article-types.

IFTR members may access the journal via the IFTR website<https://iftr.org/about/journal/> with their account login and password.

Editorial
On new developments and opportunities, and on remembering and resisting<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616153>
Lisa Fitzpatrick<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fitzpatrick%2C+Lisa>

Research Articles
Documenting, representing, and remembering the Jeju 4.3 in Korean theatre and performance<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2631810>
Areum Jeong<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Jeong%2C+Areum>

Women dancers of World War II: performance, autobiography, and emotional histories of war<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2649380>
Priyanka Basu<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Basu%2C+Priyanka>

Algorithmic authorship: evaluating creative merit in human versus AI-generated theatre<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632478>
Silvia Alfred Elias<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Elias%2C+Silvia+Alfred>

‘The global choir of the dead and living turning into oil’: the world dramas of oil in Iran and beyond, the infrastructural vision in Amir Gudarzi’s Wonderwomb<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632784>
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fakhrkonandeh%2C+Alireza>

Staging the Chinese Civil War in a Chinese comedy: art, politics, and the quest for a happy ending in The Interrupted Dream<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632479>
Yuan Li<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Li%2C+Yuan> & Tim Beaumont (Corresponding Author)<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Beaumont%2C+Tim+%5C%28Corresponding+Author%5C%29>

Harnessing sociolinguistic variation when writing documentary theatre<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2629673>
Claire French<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/French%2C+Claire>

Shifting scenes: performing the Faroe Islands during World War II<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632480>
Ulla Kallenbach<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Kallenbach%2C+Ulla> & Anna Lawaetz<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Lawaetz%2C+Anna>

Framing dramatic peccadillos of the Indian suburbs in contempt to contemporary: vibratos of Constellations and Don Juan Tenorio<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632483>
Mayank Dutt Kaushik<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Kaushik%2C+Mayank+Dutt>

‘What’s in a name?’: The (un)making of a Singapore Theatre Company<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2652941>
Marcus Cheng Chye Tan<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Tan%2C+Marcus+Cheng+Chye>

Brecht and Mei Lanfang: facts, fictions, and the Verfremdungseffekt<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632484>
Min Tian<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Tian%2C+Min>

Dossier: The Global Far Right in Theatre and Performance
The global far right in theatre and performance: on ethics and methods<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632782>
David Rodríguez-Solás<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Rodr%C3%ADguez-Sol%C3%A1s%2C+David> & Andrés Kalawski Isla<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Kalawski+Isla%2C+Andr%C3%A9s>

Hearing the people sing, getting the people moving<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632191>
John Fletcher<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fletcher%2C+John>

Performance and Performativity: the Argentine Far Right in the Mirror<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2637557>
Lorena Verzero<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Verzero%2C+Lorena>

Performing illiberalism in Hungary: the ambiguities of an illiberal theatre portrayed by Attila Vidnyánszky’s National Theatre in Budapest<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2632785>
Noémi Herczog<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Herczog%2C+No%C3%A9mi>

The ghosts we breathe: theatre against Italian eternal fascism<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2658706>
Annalisa Sacchi<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Sacchi%2C+Annalisa>

The long reach of the Roman Salute<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2657338>
Kimberly Jannarone<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Jannarone%2C+Kimberly>

Roundtable
Stages of Gentrification: An International Roundtable<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2634146>
Emine Fişek<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fi%C5%9Fek%2C+Emine>, Aurélien Bellucci<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bellucci%2C+Aur%C3%A9lien>, Regina Lissowska-Postaremczak<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Lissowska-Postaremczak%2C+Regina>, Joseph Prestwich<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Prestwich%2C+Joseph> & Clio Unger<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Unger%2C+Clio>

Book Review
The only way out: the racial and sexual performance of escape<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616158>
by Katherine Brewer Ball, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2024, viii + 224 pp. + 13 b&w illus., $102.95 (Hb), ISBN 978- 1-4780-2604-4; $26.95 (pb), ISBN 978-1-4780-3027-0<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616158>
Andrés Ibarra Cordero<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Ibarra+Cordero%2C+Andr%C3%A9s>

Early modern media ecology<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616159>
by Peter Marx, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 142 pp., + 42 illus. $23 (pb) ISBN: 9781009298148<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616159>
Mohammed Kamran<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Kamran%2C+Mohammed>

Acting in Aotearoa<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616161>
edited by Hilary Halba and David O’Donnell, London and New York, Routledge, 2025, 284 pp. + 24 Illus., £39.99 Pb, ISBN 9781032502816; £145 Hb, ISBN 9781032502809<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616161>
Barry King<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/King%2C+Barry>

Performing the queer past: public possessions<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616162>
by Fintan Walsh, London, Methuen Drama, 2023, Pp. xiv + 230 + 17 illus. £85.00 (hb), ISBN 9781350297968; £28.99 (Pb), ISBN 9781350298002<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616162>
Rhodri Lloyd Thomas<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Thomas%2C+Rhodri+Lloyd>

Incarceration games: a history of role-play in psychology, prisons, and performance<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616165>
by Stephen Scott-Bottoms, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2024, xxv + 373 pp., $34.95 (pb), ISBN 9780472056712; $75.00 (hb), ISBN 9780472076710<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616165>
Yefferson Ospina<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Ospina%2C+Yefferson>

Theatre and global development: performing partnerships<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616166>
by Bobby Smith, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, xvii + 239 pp., 5 b/w illus. $139.99 (hb), ISBN 978-3-031-55724-8; $139.99 (pb), ISBN 978-3-031-55727-9; $109.00 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-031-55725-5<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2616166>
Tewodros Yideg Bekele<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bekele%2C+Tewodros+Yideg>

Marcus TAN (Dr) | Associate Professor | Visual and Performing Arts | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University | Chair, NIE Visiting Artist Programme<https://www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/about-us/academic-departments/visual-and-performing-arts/visiting-artist-programme> | Programme Leader, Practicum | Assistant Editor, Theatre Research International<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international> (Taylor and Francis) | Secretary-General (Communications)<https://www.iftr.org/organisation/executive-committee>, International Federation for Theatre Research |

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Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-08584-9> (Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 2026)

Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, ‘What’s in a Name: The (Un)Making of a Singapore Theatre Company’<https://doi.org/10.1080/03078833.2026.2652941>, Theatre Research International 51.1 (Mar 2026)

Forthcoming:

Havelkova, Tereza and Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Music Theater and Politics: Restaging Histories, Decentering Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2026)

Duffy, Peter, Beth Murray, Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare, Zeki Ozer, Richard Sallis, Chris Summers, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan and Wang Wan-jung, Devising in Times of Crisis: Practices for a Post-Pandemic World (Routledge, 2026)

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