The Routledge Companion to the History of Theatre and Migration 1900-2020s

Introduction: Theatre, Migration, History
Matteo Paoletti

SECTION 1 - Theatres and Migrations: Processes of Historical Interaction

Negotiating differences through ‘the pond’: Argentina, Uruguay, and Europe
Vanesa Cotroneo

Performing migration on the Brazilian stage: three variations on oppression
Virgínia de Almeida Bessa

Transoceanic touring: theatre stars and labour mobility
Livia Cavaglieri

Performing through the empire: Maurice E. Bandmann and British theatrical trade routes
Christopher Balme

Modern theatre in Korea: Japan’s Colonial Migrations and Cultural Mediation of Western Theatre, 1905-1945
Doosan Baek

Cultures in the Mirror: Japanese and Western theatres as a factor of interaction. From At the Hawk's Well to Takahime and beyond
Matteo Casari

Indian Performers on the German Stage: Uday Shankar, the Menaka Ballet and Transnational Touring in the 1930s
Isabella Schwaderer

Theatre and migration in interwar Australia: the idea of ‘national identity’ as a problem in cultural historiography
Julian Meyrick and Lauren Chalk

Music of the Community in Chinatowns: Cantonese Opera across the Borders
Hedy Law

Migrations and/in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Broadway Musical
William A. Everett

Master’s Diasporas in the Age of Totalitarianism
Peter W. Marx

Another ‘home’. Polish theatres in Lviv during the first and second Soviet occupation (1939–1941, 1944–1946)
Piotr Horbatowski

SECTION 2 - Postwar, Cold War, and Post-Colonial Rules

Exile, the Archive and the Repertoire: Challenges to a History of Spanish Theatre
Diego Santos

The masters and the ‘other’: Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba
Franco Perrelli

(E)Migrate, or not to (e)migrate? Grotowski’s dilemma and its consequences for the Performing Arts in (e)migration
Katarzyna Woźniak-Shukur

Embodying change: Rudolf Nureyev’s migrant body at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Silvia Garzarella

Hemispheric Theatre and Performance across the Americas: Latinidad Beyond Borders
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

Stages, Borders, and Crossroads: Egyptian and Tunisian Theatre in the Age of Migration
Marwa Helmy

Migration on the Turkish Stage: Three Snapshots from the 1900s to the 2020s
Emine Fişek

From Stage to Screen: a Journey on Performing Arts in Kenyan Education
Simon Peter Victor Otieno

Myths and Practices of African Theatre in France
Pingdewindé Issiaka Tiendrébéogo

SECTION 3 - Collapsing Powers, Everlasting Mobilities: Emerging Paradigms Towards the Present

Nationalism and Migration in Russian Theatre
Yana Meerzon

Scenes of Service: Italian Migration, Performed Visibility, and the Theatre of Closure
Federica G. Pedriali

A Classical Melting Pot: Legacy, Migration and Twenty-First Century Spanish Theatre (Animalario and Lola Blasco)
Julio Vélez Sainz

Imaginaries of migration between exploitation and transformation
Giulia Allegrini

Fingerprints, Soul-Seekers, Mother Tongues: Theatre & Migration in Belgium (2010-2025)
Bart Philipsen

Theatre as social practice at the southern gates of Europe
Giulia Emma Innocenti Malini

Theatre as Breathing: Applied Theatre Practices with Refugees in the Arab Region
Fadi Skeiker and Myla Skeiker

Examining the UK asylum system through the lens of Applied Theatre
Sofia Nakou

Rewriting Antigone in Postmigrant Britain: Theatre, Citizenship, and Politics of Belonging
Ekin Bodur

Theatre work environments and the Ukraine war: migration as a building block of artists’ identity and image
Agata Skrzypek and Julia Lizurek

Marriage migration and theatrical affairs
Paulina Sabugal Paz

Biography

Matteo Paoletti is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna, Italy. He has published extensively on theatre and migration, particularly in the areas of theatrical mobility between Europe and South America. He has previously published A Huge Revolution of Theatrical Commerce (2020), and adapted Routledge books Theatre Studies: The Basics and Acting: The Basics into Italian.