OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial, 43.2	2
Narratives of home or failure: the impact of artists and site-specific artworks in communities	2
Embodying a new sexual politics of meat in Lucy Kirkwood’s Tinderbox	1
Decolonisation and solidarity roundtable discussion	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
A queery of everything: queer-conscious casting and multiverse dramaturgy	1
Solidarity and cannibalism: anthropophagic actions as a devising process in contemporary dance training	1
Physical solidarity as feeling the feeling	1
History plays in the twenty-first century: new tools for interpreting the contemporary performance of the past	1
Interview with casting director Sophie Parrott (CDG)	1
Testing scores for performing placestories	1
Heisnam Sabitri: The Way of the Thamoi	1
Good nights out: a history of popular British theatre since the Second World War	1
Adaptation and Resilience in the Performing Arts: The Pandemic and Beyond	1
Terror and horror in contemporary Iraqi theatre	1
Artist roundtable on casting and identity with Nicole Acquah, Emma Jude Harris, Samia La Virgne, and Kerry Kyriacos	1
Summer Cannibals	1
‘Taping into the void’: acting labour, self-tapes, and resistance in the digital economy	1
Martyr plot and the national founding myth: staging Croatian national identity through amateur performances of a medieval genre	1
The Southall ever after festival – what COVID-19 taught us about community, research and funding	1
Free Bitch - Ongoing … ..	1
Hunkering down in the theatre of war: reflections on the interpersonal politics of collective resistance	1
Editorial	1
Directorial strategies for enhancing stage presence: When practice- based research meets phenomenology	1
Contemporary performance and political economy: oikonomia as a new ethico-political paradigm	1

A diary of war and theatre	1
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity	1
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
WRITING FROM THE _________________	0
The many faces of Ruan Dacheng: poet, playwright, politician in seventeenth-century China	0
Performance \| Process \| Politics	0
Choreographing immersion: encountering borders, difference, and power	0
Daughters Opera : an epistemic representation of feminist solidarities	0
Utopian drama: in search of a genre	0
Editorial	0
Editorial: Grounds for Re-wor(l)ding	0
Against community: ambivalent identities in Actors Touring Company and David Greig’s The Events	0
‘Therapy with My Exotic Self’	0
Theatre of change: a theatre community of homelessness and pedagogy	0
Muscle works: physical culture and the performance of masculinity	0
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre	0
Racialized disability-disabled race in contemporary British theatre: pathologizing and prostheticizing blackness in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (20	0
Reclaiming the margins: collective resistance and feminist artistic practices in Putin’s Russia	0
‘No one Escapes’: thoughts on coloniality, peace and martyrdom after watching Khalid Abdalla’s Nowhere	0
Am I really the only one dancing? Seeking solidarity in wit(h)ness	0
‘Me and the Sky’: smashing the glass ceiling in Come from Away , neoliberal feminism, and climate change	0
Exhibition curation as practice-as-research performance historiography: an incomplete story of audience experience	0
Editorial: seeking solidarity and wonder through performance	0
Establishing an ecology of practice: a ‘Do It Yourself’ approach to performer training	0
Making Sense: Part II	0
Thoughts on casting practices from a transgender perspective	0
Scenographic ‘stuff’: attending to everyday objects in performance (and beyond)	0
A screen archive of Asian bros: casting masculinity and performing stereotypes	0
Divorced, beheaded, defied: solidarity in individual and collective herstories in SIX the Musical (2017)	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
Weapons of conflict and friendship: the gumayi and yilimung in The Visitors	0
Meaningful agency in participatory performance: a contextual approach	0
Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance	0
Feeling together: the affective project of co-presence and the limits of the audience community	0
Editorial (42.2)	0
Editorial 44.2	0
Preliminary thoughts on the death of the editor	0
Negotiating cultural exchange. Federico García Lorca on the British stage from the Spanish civil war until the mid-fifties	0
Special Interests	0
Form and pressure: Augusto Boal at the RSC	0
Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship	0
Decolonisation and contemporary dance	0
Arts-based approaches to evaluating impact: a case study of youth perspectives towards Smart Local Energy Systems	0
Crossing and reimagining the South-North border in a heterotopic space	0
Dramaturgy of sex on stage in contemporary theatre	0
If you call for papers, the papers call back at you: some thoughts on CfP and selection processes	0
Making Sense: Part I	0
Past hauntings for the future: the return of the Victorian ghost in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine (1979)	0
Editorial: hostipitality in times of glocal precarities	0
Before solidarity: the process politics of relationality, receptivity, and attunement	0

Building theatre, making policy: materiality and cultural democracy at Liverpool’s PurpleDoor	0
Queer communities, friendship, and moments of joy and wonder in Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World competition	0
‘Looking back in the present’: reevaluating African identity and spirituality through casting roles in initiation rites of a Nigerian University	0
Composting Grief: Part II & III	0
The active white coats: a costume studies approach to the performance of medicine in Life Matters (2019)	0
Irish rebellion in-yer-face or consigned to history: Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in 2016	0
Act(ion)s of solidarity: possibilities of hope and change through art	0
Mounted masculinity – imperial identity in the equestrian acts of Frank Fillis’s circus in South Africa, c. 1882–1910	0
Reality theatre as a method for social science research: the Vietnamese diaspora in central europe	0
Music and sound in European theatre: practices, performances, perspectives	0
Editorial: Casting and identity	0
ANTI – PERFORMANCE AS PRAXIS	0
Composting Grief: Part I	0
Intermedial heterotopia in contextual studies	0
Making Sense: Part III	0
Fragments of Encounters	0
Editorial, Studies in Theatre and Performance 45.1 (March 2025)	0
Hyper-femininity as radical resistance: re-envisaging the starlet through a feminist practice of solidarity in It’s Sophie! (2018)	0
The theatre of Louise Lowe	0
Livecasting in twenty-first-century British theatre: NT Live and the aesthetics of spectacle, materiality and engagement	0
The City (Revised)	0
Audience behavior in immersive theatre: an environment-behavior studies analysis of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More	0
The cycleborg : everyday performances of solidarity and hope of the cycling female	0
Performance and postsocialism in postmillennial China	0
A conversation about new directions in studies of modernity and theatre	0
Dancers as interpreters: the aesthetics and social commentary of Hausa Koroso Dance	0
Transition of traditional rod-puppetry and cultural commons: a case study of Satya Narayan Putul Natya Sanstha in Jaynagar, West Bengal	0
Review of Sophie Duncan’s Searching for Juliet: the lives and deaths of Shakespeare’s first tragic heroine	0
Performance and race: teaching Shakespeare to Saudi students using current events and popular culture	0
Dance teaching in HE: further thoughts on the possibilities of artistic citizenship for decolonial practice	0
Scenes from Preceding Years	0
Through the glass wall: architectural insights into the feminist Turkish play On İkinci Ev	0
Performing memory and testimony after a national disaster: the Sewol mothers in Talking about Her (2016), VEGA	0
‘Walking the boundaries’: Lynne Parker’s unpublished version of Federico García Lorca’sLa Casa de Bernarda Alba	0
Walking as performing in the city: dialogues and ethnographic encounters	0
The body as territory: a movement perspective	0
Correction	0
Editorial 43.1	0
Oil and modern world dramas: from petro-mania to petro-melancholia	0
Murphy in performance: The Gigli Concert at the Abbey Theatre in 1983 and 1991	0
Staging en/k/counter : coevality of violence and theatre in India	0
Sites of multiplicity: anarchiving, feminism, and performance	0
“The messenger has arrived”: the Angel of America as a prophet of intra-action on stage	0
Collective resistance roundtable discussion	0
Self-authoring feminine Blackness through solo performance	0