OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theatre Research International is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reclaiming Public Spaces in Post-pandemic India (Kolkata): Activist Theatre, Gender and a Resurgence of the Marginal	14
TRI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	9
Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World	6
TRI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
‘We Will Teach Them How to Use This Building’: Acts of Accountability from South African Artists	2
Climate psychology as music theatre in Laura Bowler’s Houses Slide	2
On Fast and Slow Editing	2
The Freak Onstage: Transformation of Life into Spectacle in Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes’s El Gallo	2
Stages of Gentrification: An International Roundtable	2
Subway Crush	2
How the Teatro Olimpico and the Drottingholm Slottsteater ‘Perform’ Their Pasts ¹	2
Whose Crisis? Syrian Refugees and the Turkish Stage – ADDENDUM	1
TRI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
TRI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre	1
Acting in Aotearoa	1
TRI volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Framing dramatic peccadillos of the Indian suburbs in contempt to contemporary: vibratos of Constellations and Don Juan Tenorio	1
‘What’s in a name?’: The (un)making of a Singapore Theatre Company	1
The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre and Politics	1
Hope in a Collapsing World: Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative	1
Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin	1
TRI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Queer Street Scenes: Interruption, Exception, Orientation	1
Senior Editor’s Note	1

Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender	0
Performing female intimacy in Japan’s Takarazuka Revue	0
Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity	0
Autistic perspectives in actor training: the pedagogical possibilities of re-examining eye contact	0
Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre	0
Flying in the Cage: Iranian Theatre Directors’ Creativity in the Face of Censorship	0
‘Close but Far, Human but Square, Normal but Exhausting’: Pandemic Theatre in Poland	0
Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance	0
‘Dying … to Connect’: Postdigital Co-presence in Dead Centre’s To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) (2020)	0
On new developments and opportunities, and on remembering and resisting	0
Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater	0
Editorial: On Collaboration	0
TRI volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
It’s Not Your Fault: Five New Plays on Sexual Harassment in Egypt	0
The Bodily Encounter: Towards a Utopian Community through Stage Presence	0
Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018	0
Social Imaginaries and a Culture of Circulation: Sanna kvinnor in Late Nineteenth-Century Nordic Theatre	0
Women dancers of World War II: performance, autobiography, and emotional histories of war	0
Staging the Chinese Civil War in a Chinese comedy: art, politics, and the quest for a happy ending in The Interrupted Dream	0
Shifting scenes: performing the Faroe Islands during World War II	0
Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research	0
‘Stalin Died but Not Completely’: On the Theatrical Legacy of Totalitarian Catastrophe	0
Realisms in East Asian Performance	0
On the Texture/ Texxture of Woven Vaginas: Textile Theatrical Objects and (Dis)embodied Female Labour	0
‘Why Were Our Yemenite Brothers Insulted?’: Love as Strong as Death as a Prequel to Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Theatre	0
The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo	0
Elephants in the Room: A Metonymic Reading of a Strange Appearance in Early Modern Europe	0
Authority melding: carnivalesque elements within reconciliation pedagogy	0
The long reach of the Roman Salute	0
Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theater	0
Undoing the world together: feminist facilitation as play, care, and revolt	0
Introduction to ‘Play care and revolt: new approaches to workshop facilitation’	0
Brave New Worlds? COVID-19 and Irish-Language Theatre Produced under Lockdown in Northern Ireland	0
Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest	0
Editorial: On Critical and Convivial Assembly	0
Playification of Theatre: Game Play, Ludic Activities and Being Playful in The Great Gatsby: An Immersive Theatrical Experience	0
Editorial: What Memory Wants	0
What’s the cost of mastery? Flemish Primitives and the labour behind the myth of Flemish dance	0
The ghosts we breathe: theatre against Italian eternal fascism	0
Real Theatre: Essays in Experience	0
Viral Interstitiality and Unlikely Resources: Gender and Labour in Turkish Public Theatre During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Performing revolutionary China: Sergei Tret’iakov’s Roar, China! and the reconfiguration of revolutionary theatre	0
Editorial: On Stormy Contextual Seas	0
Digital Performance and Its Discontents (or, Problems of Presence in Pandemic Performance)	0
TRI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
TRI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night	0
The only way out: the racial and sexual performance of escape	0
Theatre across Borders	0
A History of Butô	0

The embodied writer: using somatic practice to challenge traditional workshop structures	0
Algorithmic authorship: evaluating creative merit in human versus AI-generated theatre	0
Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments	0
Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics	0
Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China	0
Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance	0
The ‘real’ Ibsen theatre: the Residenztheater in Berlin and the growth of a critically engaged, egalitarian theatre culture	0
Performance and Performativity: the Argentine Far Right in the Mirror	0
TRI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Making Sense: Reading the Production Notes of Dark Things	0
Fostering connection without collapse: attuning to the third Space in participatory performance practice	0
Cosmo-modernism and theatre in India	0
The House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Colour and the Siege of AIDS	0
Performance, Resistance and Refugees	0
Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method	0
Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming	0
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture	0
Theatre as Transitional Infrastructure: Flow, Freedom and the ‘Long Middle’ of Change in Hong Kong	0
Layered encounters: embracing ethical dilemmas of applied immersive theatre in Port of Entry	0
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama	0
Towards a New Approach to Palestinian Performance History: Revisiting Mawsim al-Nabi Rubin	0
Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama: Acting the Man	0
Butoh and Suzuki performance in Australia: bent legs on strange grounds, 1982-2023	0
International Theatre Festivals and 21st-Century Interculturalism	0
Theatre and global development: performing partnerships	0
Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying	0
Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean	0
Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance	0
‘Purification’ and ‘Hybridization’: (Re)construction and Reception of Theatrical Nationality in Western Tours of the Mei Lanfang and Tsutsui Troupes in 1930 ¹	0
Hijacking the Familiar: The Work of Big Telly Theatre Company	0
Editorial: Presence and Precarity in (Post-) Pandemic Theatre and Performance	0
Utpal Dutt’s Theatre: Continuities and Disjunctions in His Politics and Aesthetics	0
Editorial: Historiography as Metonymy	0
An Armenian Catalogue as Metonymy: Archiving Performance in the Other Milanese Avant-Garde	0
TRI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Dossier—Negotiating Urban Spaces: Access, Care and Confinement in Contemporary Gendered Performance	0
Ghostly Interpellations: Testimonial Inscriptions on the Stage	0
Transcultural Theater	0
Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond	0
Honour and Reputation as Gender Politics in Ali Abdel-Nabi Al Zaidi’s Rubbish (1995) and Amir Al-Azraki’s The Widow	0
Editorial: On Learning (and Not Learning) From History	0
The End of an Impassioned Feud: The 2022 Oberammergau Passion Play and the Public Embrace of Progressive Politics	0
Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations: Dancing Modernity	0
Abhilash Pillai’s Midnight’s Children : Performing Politics through Optics	0
Resistance to the Neo-liberal Economy and the Life of a Play: The Jana Natya Manch and Theatre Activism	0
Denunciatory Press and Neo-Avant-Garde Theatre in Cold War Hungary: ‘If necessary, let’s ban!’	0
Actionism’s Afterlife: Christoph Schlingensief Revisited	0
Using special postal cancels to reconstruct the movements of a theatre troupe: the case of Schaefer’s Märchen-Stadt Liliput	0
‘Severe’ Sensory Theatre: Building Relational Disability Politics during UK COVID Lockdowns	0
Touching Base: Writing for the Boy in Bartley Green	0
Mess and contemporary performance: complexity, containment, and collapse	0
Post-performance: Pandemic Breach Experiments, Big Theatre Data, and the Ends of Theory	0
Puppetry Networks of the Island of Naoshima	0
Documenting, representing, and remembering the Jeju 4.3 in Korean theatre and performance	0
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India	0
The Forgotten History of Our Times: Revisiting Utpal Dutt’s Titu Mir in Contemporary India	0
Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race	0
Performing Reparative Solidarity: The Politics and Poetics of Pān-toh in Twelve Dishes Ballad	0
Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theatre	0
Harold Pinter	0
Editorial: Cultural Forms, Interpretive Communities and Social Imaginaries	0
Performing the queer past: public possessions	0
A Brecht-inspired approach to anti-racist education: working notes on the performative lecture A Lesson on Differences	0
The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture	0
Representing and commenting on history in Tipografic majuscul by Gianina Cărbunariu and Radu Jude	0
From repetition to care: probody artmaking and targeted choreography in performance	0
TRI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
TRI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Immanuel’s Prologue to the Machberot : A Medieval Hebrew Poem as a Relic of Performance	0
TRI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Relaying Macbeth : reframing self-orientalism in the modernization of Asian traditional theatres	0
The Athenian Male Ga y ze: Desire and Spectatorship in Ancient Greek Tragedy	0
Editorial: On Disconnect	0
TRI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Harnessing sociolinguistic variation when writing documentary theatre	0
Precarious Bodies: Locating Spectatorship in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival Series	0
‘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	0
Remembering Jim Davis	0
Melting snow, crying cranes: ecological philosophy and intermediality in the Kunqu Opera adaptations of Shishuo Xinyu	0
Scenography of the Unimaginable: Exploring Trauma of Others in 872 days. Voices of the besieged city	0

Queering Romeo and Juliet in South Korea: Homonormativity as Gay Utopian Fantasy ¹	0
Mediating history and trauma: White Storyteller and Taiwanese glove puppetry	0
Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris	0
Eimuntas Nekrošius’s Transnational ‘Voice from Lithuania’: Reinterpreting Polish Classics within Frames of the Theatre of Sensual Metaphors	0
Artaud’s ‘An Affective Athleticism’: a speculative method for practice exploring contemporary psychophysiological acting methods	0
‘Circles of Women’: Feminist Movements in the Choreography of Oona Doherty	0
Early modern media ecology	0
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre	0
‘We Already Carry Out a National Assignment’: Indigenous Performance and the Struggle for a Sámi National Theatre in Sweden ¹	0
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus	0
TRI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance	0
Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre since the Second World War	0
Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal	0
Global Climate Education and Its Discontent: Using Drama to Forge a New Way	0
How call-and-response facilitates restorative dialogic listening: reconstructing a transitional justice hearing as participatory performance	0
Theatre Workshop HaTikva Neighborhood: An Independent Community-Based Theatre in Israel	0
Seeing double: alcohol, gender, and English Nationalism in Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats	0
Okinawan Absence: Ma in Kumiodori	0
TRI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Performing Womanhood and Carefare in Hungary	0
In the ‘Display Case’: (Capitalist) Realism and Simon Stone’s ‘Zoological’ Ibsen	0
Cuerpos resilientes y disidentes: violencia político-sexual en el teatro transatlántico de posdictadura	0
‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better’: Adapting Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for the Chinese Stage – Real and Virtual ¹	0
Early Cinema, Attraction and Estrangement: Revisiting Bertolt Brecht’s Interpretation of Mei Lanfang	0
Performance, Resistance and Refugees	0
How Does Khashabi Theatre Produce a ‘Dual Presence’ of Palestinian Urbanism? Ghosts and Memory in Its First Season, Haifa, 2015–2016	0
Studio Treasures and Haunted Storerooms: Belasco’s Collections and Psychometric Readings of Theatre History	0
Plays by Women in Ireland (1926–33): Feminist Theatres of Freedom and Resistance	0
‘Looking at the Wider World’: Global Engagement, Political Activism and Polemical Storytelling in Watchlist, Prima Facie and Myth,	0
Made-Up Asians: Yellowface during the Exclusion Era	0
Theatre and Its Enchantments	0
The global far right in theatre and performance: on ethics and methods	0
Performing illiberalism in Hungary: the ambiguities of an illiberal theatre portrayed by Attila Vidnyánszky’s National Theatre in Budapest	0
TRI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance	0
TRI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech	0
The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies	0
Incarceration games: a history of role-play in psychology, prisons, and performance	0
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration	0
TRI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
A Theatre to come: posthumanism, vegetal thinking, and ecofeminism in Estado Vegetal (2017) by Manuela Infante	0
Brecht and Mei Lanfang: facts, fictions, and the Verfremdungseffekt	0
Hearing the people sing, getting the people moving	0
Nationalist Shakespeare in Korea: reshaping Shylock and Antonio in Changgeuk Merchants of Venice	0
Staging Theatre Historiography: The Afterlives of Ottoman Armenian Drama in Contemporary Turkish Public Theatre	0