[Candrama] Theatre Research International 51.2

Mon Sep 14 06:24:45 EDT 2026

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for the cross-posting.

Theatre Research International 51.2<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtri20/current> is now published.

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Editorial: Tragedy, Barbarism, and the Labour of Decolonization<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2709845>
Lisa Fitzpatrick<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fitzpatrick%2C+Lisa>

Research Article
Relaying Macbeth: reframing self-orientalism in the modernization of Asian traditional theatres<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2646597>
Bin Tang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Tang%2C+Bin>

Representing and commenting on history in Tipografic majuscul by Gianina Cărbunariu and Radu Jude<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2649370>
Armando Rotondi<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Rotondi%2C+Armando>

The ‘real’ Ibsen theatre: the Residenztheater in Berlin and the growth of a critically engaged, egalitarian theatre culture<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2648758>
Ruth Schor<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Schor%2C+Ruth>

Melting snow, crying cranes: ecological philosophy and intermediality in the Kunqu Opera adaptations of Shishuo Xinyu<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2648026>
Yujun Xu<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Xu%2C+Yujun>

Using special postal cancels to reconstruct the movements of a theatre troupe: the case of Schaefer’s Märchen-Stadt Liliput<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2669684>
Dirk H. R. Spennemann<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Spennemann%2C+Dirk+H+R>

From repetition to care: probody artmaking and targeted choreography in performance<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2643205>
Peilin Liang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Liang%2C+Peilin>

Layered encounters: embracing ethical dilemmas of applied immersive theatre in Port of Entry<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2646585>
Damon Krometis<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Krometis%2C+Damon>

Climate psychology as music theatre in Laura Bowler’s Houses Slide<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2637556>
Adrian Curtin<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Curtin%2C+Adrian>

Seeing double: alcohol, gender, and English Nationalism in Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2646587>
Isabel Stuart<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Stuart%2C+Isabel>

Artaud’s ‘An Affective Athleticism’: a speculative method for practice exploring contemporary psychophysiological acting methods<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2648027>
David Fenton<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fenton%2C+David>

IFTR New Scholars Forum Essay Competition: Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions
Emotion (Jeong/Qing <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2700392> 情<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2700392>) as form in the tale of Chunhyang: contemporizing changgeuk and Yue Opera<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2700392>
Xu Caifang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Caifang%2C+Xu>

Unity in travesty: reimagining the nation on the national stage<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2675028>
Lakshya Choudhary<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Choudhary%2C+Lakshya>

“Why are they doing cabaret in the dark?”: blindness and simulation in Extant Theatre’s Effing and Blinding! Cabaret<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2714844>
Alison M. Mahoney<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Mahoney%2C+Alison+M>

Voiceless but visible: staging queer transgression in postcolonial Taiwan through Our Lady of the Flowers (2018)<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2673028>
Qi Wang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Wang%2C+Qi>

Dossier: On Complicity: Theatre, Performance and the Question of Palestine
Introduction to dossier – on complicity: theatre, performance, and the question of Palestine<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2696925>
Sruti Bala<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bala%2C+Sruti>, Marcus Bell<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bell%2C+Marcus>, Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Blackwell-Pal%2C+Jaswinder> & Phoebe Patey-Ferguson<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Patey-Ferguson%2C+Phoebe>

Theatre and performance scholarship ‘after Gaza’<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2695105>
Sruti Bala<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bala%2C+Sruti>

Ecstasy Forensics, ‘Minor Detail’<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2699247>
Marcus Bell<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Bell%2C+Marcus>

Cutting the Tightrope: British Theatre and Palestine<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2691489>
Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Blackwell-Pal%2C+Jaswinder>

This will not end well? Art, activism, and institutional control in times of Genocide<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2691494>
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Patey-Ferguson%2C+Phoebe>

Book Review
Cosmo-modernism and theatre in India<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697672>
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<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697672>
Ashis Sengupta<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Sengupta%2C+Ashis>

Performing female intimacy in Japan’s Takarazuka Revue<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697673>
by Nobuko Anan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 68 pp., £18.00 (eBook) ISBN 9781009554985<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697673>
Yoshiko Fukushima<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fukushima%2C+Yoshiko>

Mess and contemporary performance: complexity, containment, and collapse<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697674>
by Harriet Curtis, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2025, x + 155 pp., $144.00 (hb), ISBN 9781032034195; $45.59 (eBook), ISBN 9781003187226<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697674>
Priyanka Pathak<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Pathak%2C+Priyanka>

Butoh and Suzuki performance in Australia: bent legs on strange grounds, 1982-2023<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697675>
by Jonathan W. Marshall, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2024, xiii + 330 pp., $138.00 (Hb/eBook Hb), ISBN 9789004712300; (eBook), ISBN 9789004712317<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697675>
Alex Rogals<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Rogals%2C+Alex>

Cuerpos resilientes y disidentes: violencia político-sexual en el teatro transatlántico de posdictadura<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697676>
by Osvaldo Sandoval-León, Madrid & Frankfurt, Iberoamericana-Verveurt, 2025, 238 pp., €36.00 (Hb), ISBN 9788491924876<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078833.2026.2697676>
Jennifer Joan Thompson<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Thompson%2C+Jennifer+Joan>

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 |
NIE 03-03-61, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616
T: (65) 6790-3552 GMT+8h | F: (65) 6896-9143 | E: marcus.tan at nie.edu.sg<mailto:marcus.tan at nie.edu.sg> | Profile<https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp01583>
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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, eds., Music Theater and Politics: Restaging Histories, Decentering Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, ‘Of Leave/s and Leaving: Dialectical Dramaturgy as Devising Practice’, Devising Theatre in Times of Crisis: Practices for a Post-Pandemic World, ed. Peter Duffy (Routledge, 2026)
Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye, ‘Music in Contemporary Adaptation’, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Sound, ed. Carla Della Gatta and Simon Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2027)

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