Scholar in Focus

Echoes, Resonances, and Continuities: A Collection of Maria Shevtsova’s Writings on the Sociology of Theatre and Performance (1988-2025)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.7.1.42837

Keywords:

sociology of theatre and performance, social signs, social action, Bakhtin, Peter Brook, Ubu

Abstract

EJTP gathers here a collection of writings (spanning from 1988 to 2025) that bear witness to Prof. Em. Maria Shevtsova’s sustained and critical expansion of her scholarship in the sociology of theatre and performance. Newly added comments to several excerpts presented her, which Shevtsova formulated in 2025, invite us to recognise the echoes, resonances, and continuities that define her intellectual trajectory.

Author Biographies

Maria Shevtsova, Goldsmiths University of London

Maria Shevtsova is Professor Emerita of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, having previously held professorships at the Universities of Connecticut and Lancaster (Founding Chair). She was founding director of European Studies at Sydney University and has held visiting professorships and similar positions at, among others, the Teatro Ateneo in Rome, Oslo University, the Academy of Theatre Arts in St Petersburg and the Grotowski Institute. She is the author of over one hundred journal articles and chapters in collected volumes, and her books, other than the three cited below, include the co-authored/co-edited Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Fifty Key Theatre Directors (Routledge, 2005). Her publications have been translated into Korean, Chinese, Persian, Russian, Romanian and Polish. She was co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly, and on the editorial team of Critical Stages of the International Association of Theatre Critics and the editorial Board of Polish Theatre Perspectives.

Rui Pina Coelho, Centre for Theatre Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon

Rui Pina Coelho (Évora, 1975) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He has a PhD in Theatre Studies with a work on the representation of violence in post-WWII British realist drama. He has coordinated the volume Contemporary Portuguese Theatre: Experimentalism, Politics and Utopia [working title] (TNDMII / Bicho do Mato, 2017) and coordinated the Theatre Writing Laboratory of the D. Maria II National Theatre from 2015 to 2019. Since 2010, he has been collaborating regularly with TEP (Oporto Experimental Theatre) as a playwright and dramaturgist.

Joana d’Eça Leal, Centre for Theatre Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon

Joana dEça Leal (Lisboa, 1985) is a researcher working on a PhD at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, focusing on theatre criticism during the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974). She has an MA in Performance and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London. She published Companhia Rey Colaço-Robles Monteiro (INCM, 2016), part of a collection of biographies curated by the Centre for Theatre Studies (with Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and Teatro Nacional São João), and is part of the Editorial Board of Sinais de Cena - Performing Arts and Theatre Studies Journal (CET/APCT).

Published

2025-09-02

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Exile and (Neo)Nationalism

Section

Scholar in Focus

Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Shevtsova, Rui Pina Coelho, Joana d’Eça Leal

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