Contemporary Theatre Review

期刊简介：Contemporary Theatre Review is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre and performance studies. The journal is home to the most rigorous, experimental, and influential scholarly interventions into the study of international theatre and related practices. Publishing the best research on a broad spectrum of performance practices – including mainstream theatre, drama, performance histories; live art and performance art; dance theatre; digital performance; sound; and performative social and applied practices – Contemporary Theatre Review supports and encourages a wide range of methodologies and approaches, especially interdisciplinary inflections. Each issue includes scholarly articles, critical documents (including interviews and forum discussions), book reviews, and ‘backpages’, with an emphasis on the analysis of new, under-represented or otherwise marginalised examples of performance, grounded in their historical, social, cultural and political conditions of production. Contemporary Theatre Review’s website at www.contemporarytheatrereview.org offers online ‘Interventions’, original articles that respond to current developments in the field and extend discussions from the print journal through a variety of writing formats and multimedia content. ‘I have just read Contemporary Theatre Review from cover to cover. Sound scholarship, vigorous thinking, political impact with a renewed sense of the part theatre might play in the contemporary – all wrapped up in a volume light enough to hold in the studio and weighty enough to be talking about some time after the work is over. A welcome challenge to theatre-lite.’ Alan Read – Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Kings College, London ‘ Contemporary Theatre Review is unique among scholarly theatre journals in its deft combination of primary and secondary sources on current and recent theatre practice. That is, its scrupulously-edited, peer-reviewed critical essays are juxtaposed with articles and interviews providing first-hand documentation of work by major contemporary practitioners of theatre and performance. These materials are reflected on further by the forum-like debates often conducted in the “Backpages” section of the journal (which, I confess, I often turn to first). But the most important thing of all about CTR is its insistently internationalist outlook: though rightly centred in its own, UK context, the journal's ongoing attention to non-Anglophone theatre practice, in continental Europe and beyond, provides a vital antidote to the Anglo-American bias of so much work in contemporary theatre and performance studies.’ Stephen Bottoms – Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance , University of Manchester, UK ‘ Contemporary Theatre Review is an invaluable resource for theatre artists and scholars. The journal’s editorial and advisory board has remarkable depth. The breadth of their explorations, from the systems breeding radical new ideas in the German theatre, to the collaboration between Vienna’s Projekt Theater with Mabou Mines, to the spate of recent plays about sex tourism in the Caribbean, to an exploration of where theatre is heading beyond postmodernism with a critical eye on whether critical analysis has kept pace, to an exploration of the cultural theory as embodied in the freak show, to a fresh look at what might be worthy in the Broadway musical, these are all evidence of a group of visionary thinkers taking delight in imagining a theatre that moves the whole culture forward.’ Matthew Maguire – Director, Theatre Program, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Co-Artistic Director, Creation Production Company ‘ Contemporary Theatre Review has now become the ‘must-read’ theatre journal. With one of the sharpest teams of editors and advisors in the world, it is publishing some of the most insightful and internationally important contributions to theatre research and scholarship. It is a journal that has truly come of age – attracting the leading writers, engaging with the most current and pressing debates, and embracing a wonderful diversity, from its rich variety of writing formats (articles, documents, forum pieces, interviews and reviews) to the extensive range of theatre and performance practices it examines.’ Professor Steve Dixon – Pro-Vice Chancellor (Development), Brunel University

【译文】《当代戏剧评论》是一份经过同行评审的戏剧和表演研究期刊。该杂志是国际戏剧及相关实践研究中最严格、最具实验性和最有影响力的学术干预的发源地。发表有关广泛表演实践的最佳研究——包括主流戏剧、戏剧、表演史；现场艺术和表演艺术；舞蹈剧场；数字性能；声音;以及表演性的社会和应用实践——当代戏剧评论支持和鼓励广泛的方法论和途径，特别是跨学科的变化。每期都包括学术文章、重要文件（包括访谈和论坛讨论）、书评和“背页”，重点是根据其历史、社会、文化和政治生产条件，对新的、代表性不足或以其他方式边缘化的表演实例进行分析。 《当代戏剧评论》的网站 www.contemporarytheatrereview.org 提供在线“干预”，即响应该领域当前发展的原创文章，并通过各种写作格式和多媒体内容扩展印刷期刊的讨论。 “我刚刚从头到尾读完了《当代戏剧评论》。扎实的学识、活跃的思考、政治影响以及对戏剧在当代可能扮演的角色的全新认识——所有这些都被包裹在一本足够轻的书里，可以放在工作室里，也足够有分量，可以在作品结束后的一段时间里谈论。艾伦·里德 (Alan Read) – 伦敦国王学院戏剧、戏剧和表演研究教授 《当代戏剧评论》在学术戏剧期刊中独树一帜，巧妙地结合了当前和近期戏剧实践的一手和二手资料。也就是说，其经过严格编辑、同行评审的批评文章与文章和采访并列，提供了当代戏剧和表演主要从业者作品的第一手资料。这些材料通过经常在期刊的“Backpages”部分进行的类似论坛的辩论得到了进一步的反映（我承认，我经常首先转向该部分）。但《CTR》最重要的一点是它坚持不懈的国际主义观点：尽管该杂志正确地以英国自身的背景为中心，但它对欧洲大陆及其他地区的非英语戏剧实践的持续关注，为当代戏剧和表演研究中如此多的工作中的英美偏见提供了重要的解药。” Stephen Bottoms – 英国曼彻斯特大学当代戏剧与表演教授“当代戏剧评论对于戏剧艺术家和学者来说是一个宝贵的资源。该杂志的编辑和顾问委员会具有非凡的深度。他们探索的广度，从德国剧院催生激进新思想的体系，到维也纳 Projekt 剧院与 Mabou Mines 之间的合作，到最近一系列关于加勒比海性旅游的戏剧，到以批判性的眼光来探索戏剧超越后现代主义的方向，批判性分析是否跟上步伐，到对怪胎表演中体现的文化理论的探索，到重新审视百老汇音乐剧中可能有价值的东西，这些都证明了一群有远见的思想家乐于想象一个能够推动整个文化向前发展的剧院。” 马修·马奎尔 – 林肯中心福特汉姆学院戏剧项目总监，Creation Production Company 联合艺术总监 “《当代戏剧评论》现已成为“必读”戏剧杂志。它拥有世界上最精明的编辑和顾问团队之一，正在出版一些对戏剧研究和学术最有洞察力和国际重要的贡献。这是一本真正成熟的期刊——吸引了顶尖作家，参与了最新、最紧迫的辩论，并拥抱了美妙的多样性，从丰富多样的写作格式（文章、文件、论坛文章、采访和评论）到它所研究的广泛的戏剧和表演实践。”史蒂夫·迪克森教授——布鲁内尔大学副校长（发展）