TaPRA 2019

The World Theatre Season: Redefining European TheatreThe subject of this paper is the World Theatre Season (WTS), an annual season of international theatre companies presented at the Aldwych Theatre in London by the impresario Peter Daubeny in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare... Read More →

Entitled Shakespeare  This paper addresses a ubiquitous, arguably essential but overlooked component of the contemporary international performance network: the surtitle. It begins with a brief overview of the evolution of simultaneous translation technologies and practices in the... Read More →

Tracing the Origins of the Royal Court’s International Department through Elyse Dodgson’s Young Peoples’ Theatre. In September 2017, I attended the TaPRA annual conference at the University of Salford to present a paper to the members of this working group. The group’s theme... Read More →

The Link Between Cultures – Trauma in Contemporary European Plays at London’s Royal Court Theatre In the 2010s, London’s Royal Court theatre has staged three full productions by European writers from outside the UK. These are Aleksey Scherbak’s Remembrance Day (2011), depicting... Read More →