OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Theatre and Performance is 1. 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
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
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 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
‘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