Drama

• Contemporary theatre, especially in Europe, the UK, Ireland, South America, South Africa, India, and North America
• Performance, democracy, and ‘community’
• Performance and cultural identities, especially related to gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, and age
• Geographies of theatre and performance, including performance and cities, installation art, site-specific performance, and immersive performance
• Cultural performance history, historiography, documentation, and archiving
• Early modern and Renaissance drama and Shakespeare in performance

Research by the staff, postgraduate students, post-doctoral fellows, distinguished visiting researchers, audiences, and other members of the public is focused through four main – but overlapping – strands of research on:

• cultural histories of performance
• transnational performance
• live art
• applied and socially-engaged performance