Scholar in Focus

Fifty Key Personal Notes on Maria Shevtsova

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.7.1.42838

Keywords:

Notes by Directors on Maria Shevtsova

Abstract

In 2005, Maria Shevtsova Shomit Mitter published a book that became an essential reference in the study and historicization of twentieth-century mise-en-scène: Fifty Key Theatre Directors (Routledge). The current collection of personal notes pays homage to that title.

Author Biographies

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).

Rui Pina Coelho

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.

Published

2025-09-02

Issue

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

Section

Scholar in Focus

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

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