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Papers

(The median citation count of Studies in Theatre and Performance 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
Narratives of home or failure: the impact of artists and site-specific artworks in communities	3
Editorial, 43.2	2
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity	2
Rewriting the past: Tudor history and écriture féminine in Howard Barker’s Brutopia	2
A diary of war and theatre	2
Martyr plot and the national founding myth: staging Croatian national identity through amateur performances of a medieval genre	2
Interview with casting director Sophie Parrott (CDG)	2
‘Taping into the void’: acting labour, self-tapes, and resistance in the digital economy	2
Theatre of the oppressed and its times	2
‘Everything louder than everything else’: fatness, mobility, and identity in Meat Loaf’s live performances, 1977–78	1
Editorial: Grounds for Re-wor(l)ding	1
Editorial: Casting and identity	1
Making Sense: Part III	1
Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance	1
Hunkering down in the theatre of war: reflections on the interpersonal politics of collective resistance	1
Adaptation and Resilience in the Performing Arts: The Pandemic and Beyond	1
The spectacle of an invisible audience: how the birthday celebrations for the ghost deity Niang Ma in Chiayi, Taiwan, destabilise notions of what constitutes a theatre audience	1
Heisnam Sabitri: The Way of the Thamoi	1
Artist roundtable on casting and identity with Nicole Acquah, Emma Jude Harris, Samia La Virgne, and Kerry Kyriacos	1
Contemporary performance and political economy: oikonomia as a new ethico-political paradigm	1
History plays in the twenty-first century: new tools for interpreting the contemporary performance of the past	1
Mounted masculinity – imperial identity in the equestrian acts of Frank Fillis’s circus in South Africa, c. 1882–1910	1
Murphy in performance: The Gigli Concert at the Abbey Theatre in 1983 and 1991	1
Editorial 44.2	1
Hyper-femininity as radical resistance: re-envisaging the starlet through a feminist practice of solidarity in It’s Sophie! (2018)	1

ANTI – PERFORMANCE AS PRAXIS	1
A queery of everything: queer-conscious casting and multiverse dramaturgy	1
Decolonisation and solidarity roundtable discussion	1
Cosmo-modernism and theater in India: writing and staging multilingual modernisms	1
Directorial strategies for enhancing stage presence: When practice- based research meets phenomenology	1
The Southall ever after festival – what COVID-19 taught us about community, research and funding	1
Summer Cannibals	1
Embodying a new sexual politics of meat in Lucy Kirkwood’s Tinderbox	1
Solidarity and cannibalism: anthropophagic actions as a devising process in contemporary dance training	1
Editorial	1
WRITING FROM THE _________________	1
Collective resistance roundtable discussion	1
Terror and horror in contemporary Iraqi theatre	1
Good nights out: a history of popular British theatre since the Second World War	1
The Mischief rehearsal process: creating comedy through collaboration	1
Free Bitch - Ongoing … ..	1
Event report: Towards a Dance Commons – A Forum for Cross-Community Sharing, Dance City and Durham University, 12–13 November 2025	1
Physical solidarity as feeling the feeling	1
Writing forward: translation, performance, creativity	1
The cycleborg : everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female	0
Reality theatre as a method for social science research: the Vietnamese diaspora in central europe	0
The City (Revised)	0
Editorial: the before, the after, and the in-between	0
Walking as performing in the city: dialogues and ethnographic encounters	0
Muscle works: physical culture and the performance of masculinity	0
Reclaiming the margins: collective resistance and feminist artistic practices in Putin’s Russia	0
Decolonisation and contemporary dance	0
If you call for papers, the papers call back at you: some thoughts on CfP and selection processes	0
Editorial: seeking solidarity and wonder through performance	0
Intermedial heterotopia in contextual studies	0
Death with laughter: the subject of the unconscious in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen	0
Fragments of Encounters	0
Daughters Opera : an epistemic representation of feminist solidarities	0
Performing memory and testimony after a national disaster: the Sewol mothers in Talking about Her (2016), VEGA	0
Form and pressure: Augusto Boal at the RSC	0
Oil and modern world dramas: from petro-mania to petro-melancholia	0
Transition of traditional rod-puppetry and cultural commons: a case study of Satya Narayan Putul Natya Sanstha in Jaynagar, West Bengal	0
Divorced, beheaded, defied: solidarity in individual and collective herstories in SIX the Musical (2017)	0
Sites of multiplicity: anarchiving, feminism, and performance	0
Dance teaching in HE: further thoughts on the possibilities of artistic citizenship for decolonial practice	0
‘Me and the Sky’: smashing the glass ceiling in Come from Away , neoliberal feminism, and climate change	0
Choreographing immersion: encountering borders, difference, and power	0
Racialized disability-disabled race in contemporary British theatre: pathologizing and prostheticizing blackness in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (20	0
‘Looking back in the present’: reevaluating African identity and spirituality through casting roles in initiation rites of a Nigerian University	0
Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds	0
Irish rebellion in-yer-face or consigned to history: Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in 2016	0
Against community: ambivalent identities in Actors Touring Company and David Greig’s The Events	0
Feeling together: the affective project of co-presence and the limits of the audience community	0
Editorial	0
Making Sense: Part I	0

Theatre of change: a theatre community of homelessness and pedagogy	0
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre	0
Utopian drama: in search of a genre	0
“The messenger has arrived”: the Angel of America as a prophet of intra-action on stage	0
Scenes from Preceding Years	0
Thoughts on casting practices from a transgender perspective	0
Under the Radar – a case study: embedding knowledge exchange in creative practice-research projects in the SHAPE subjects through engagement activities with non-academic par	0
The many faces of Ruan Dacheng: poet, playwright, politician in seventeenth-century China	0
Composting Grief: Part II & III	0
Editorial, Studies in Theatre and Performance 45.1 (March 2025)	0
Making Sense: Part II	0
Past hauntings for the future: the return of the Victorian ghost in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine (1979)	0
Music and sound in European theatre: practices, performances, perspectives	0
Scenographic ‘stuff’: attending to everyday objects in performance (and beyond)	0
Staging en/k/counter : coevality of violence and theatre in India	0
‘No one Escapes’: thoughts on coloniality, peace and martyrdom after watching Khalid Abdalla’s Nowhere	0
Weapons of conflict and friendship: the gumayi and yilimung in The Visitors	0
Before solidarity: the process politics of relationality, receptivity, and attunement	0
Livecasting in twenty-first-century British theatre: NT Live and the aesthetics of spectacle, materiality and engagement	0
Am I really the only one dancing? Seeking solidarity in wit(h)ness	0
Editorial, Studies in Theatre and Performance 46.1	0
Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship	0
Editorial 43.1	0
Crossing and reimagining the South-North border in a heterotopic space	0
Arts-based approaches to evaluating impact: a case study of youth perspectives towards Smart Local Energy Systems	0
On being a body listening: vocal expression beyond words in Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius’ this is not my voice speaking and nature theater of Oklahoma li	0
Performance and race: teaching Shakespeare to Saudi students using current events and popular culture	0
Dramaturgy of sex on stage in contemporary theatre	0
Performance \| Process \| Politics	0
The active white coats: a costume studies approach to the performance of medicine in Life Matters (2019)	0
Meaningful agency in participatory performance: a contextual approach	0
Building theatre, making policy: materiality and cultural democracy at Liverpool’s PurpleDoor	0
The theatre of Louise Lowe	0
The pontianak in contemporary dance in Malaysia	0
The body as territory: a movement perspective	0
Queer communities, friendship, and moments of joy and wonder in Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World competition	0
Performance and postsocialism in postmillennial China	0
Editorial: hostipitality in times of glocal precarities	0
Self-authoring feminine Blackness through solo performance	0
Audience behavior in immersive theatre: an environment-behavior studies analysis of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More	0
Act(ion)s of solidarity: possibilities of hope and change through art	0
A conversation about new directions in studies of modernity and theatre	0
Special Interests	0
Through the glass wall: architectural insights into the feminist Turkish play On İkinci Ev	0
Composting Grief: Part I	0
‘Therapy with My Exotic Self’	0
A screen archive of Asian bros: casting masculinity and performing stereotypes	0
Review of Sophie Duncan’s Searching for Juliet: the lives and deaths of Shakespeare’s first tragic heroine	0
Transmedia theatre plays: a contemporary anthology	0