Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic
belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and …

We all live our lives as if they were real and believe in the reality of the world we see around
us. We rely on the perceptions of our own senses to guide our decisions both in everyday …

Cover image:“Women on Horseback,” by Carl E. Karni-Bain “BAI.” The four quadrants of the
painting offer repetition with a difference. The barely discernable galloping black horses …

Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of US American music and identity. Yet hybrid
music is all too often marked-and marketed-under a single racial label. Resounding Afro …

Introduction scholars would be most likely to begin by addressing the canon, it is even more
telling that most of the plays included here have not attracted critical attention regarding age …

The increasingly widespread usage in American theatre departments of the enigmatic catch-
word “devising” points to the gradual legitimization within the academy of alternative artistic …

Signed Song–the aesthetic production or adaptation of lyrics and rhythm into signed
languages–is an emerging artistic product within Deaf communities. This thesis is an …

The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering
of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and …

In 2017, the City Theater of Munich engaged with a policy of diversity, and decided to
include Syrian artists and create the Open Border Ensemble. A German and Syrian refugee …

This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding and approaching
theatricality, a term that exists both in the theatre and, more broadly, in everyday life. It …