A Continuing Archive of Global Theatre Discourse
A global dialogue between leading performance practitioners, pedagogues and thinkers from across the world about the realities of teaching drama and reimagining theatre futures.
-
Jan 30, 2025
Jonathan O’Hear, Maria Sappho, and Qondiswa James explore Chimère, a community-driven AI, as a counter-cultural creative collaborator challenging corporate AI narratives and expanding human-nonhuman collaboration.
-
Dec 5, 2024
Liz Morgan, Maulikraj Shrimali, and Vandana Asha explore how Theatre of the Oppressed shapes democratic organisations, anti-caste practice, and community-rooted activism across diverse contexts.
-
Nov 21, 2024
Dizu Plaatjies, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, and José Dias explore ancestral memory, embodied awareness, and the sacred secrets embedded in African musical and performance traditions.
-
Sep 19, 2024
Michael Pierce, Denise Kenney, and Ellie Nixon explore how Lecoq’s pedagogy can be adapted to address ecological crisis, decenter anthropocentrism, and evolve with local contexts.
-
Aug 29, 2024
Six South African live art practitioners explore how Live Art transgresses form, centers queerness and decoloniality, demanding a rethinking of curatorial power and artistic freedom.
-
Jul 18, 2024
Three Indian mental health practitioners explore how theatre and drama therapy dismantle hierarchies, support trauma healing, and transform community health outcomes across diverse contexts.
-
Apr 25, 2024
Ukrainian playback theatre artists from Kharkiv share how they use playback theatre to build community, foster acceptance, and support displaced persons and refugees.
-
Jan 25, 2024
Kenyan theatre-maker Ogutu Muraya explores combinatorial play, post-election violence, colonial memory, and decomposition as transformative tools for storytelling and artistic self-discovery.
-
Dec 14, 2023
Lisa Suhair Majaj and Neo Muyanga examine art, language, and song as tools for naming apartheid in Palestine and amplifying resistance against oppression.
-
Nov 23, 2023
Lucy Hopkins and Saskia Solomons explore Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy as a radical, compassion-based framework for transforming theatre training and performance practice.
-
Oct 26, 2023
Akhila Khanna and Radha Ramaswamy revisit Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, exploring allyship, dialogue, and how T.O.’s spirit can be propagated in polarised, contemporary India
-
Sep 21, 2023
Ieva Česnulaitytė draws compelling parallels between citizen assemblies and devising rooms, exploring deliberative democracy as a tool for empathy, shared consensus, and civic agency.
