Routledge Companion to the History of Theatre and Migration

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.

• Section 1 Theatres and Migrations: Processes of Historical Interaction 1. Negotiating differences through ‘the pond’: Argentina, Uruguay, and Europe 2. Performing migration on the Brazilian stage: three variation on oppression 3. Transoceanic touring: theatre stars and labour mobility 4. Performing through empire: Maurice E. Bandmann and British theatrical trade routes 5. Modern Theatre in Korea: Japan’s Colonial Migrations and Cultural Mediation of Western Theatre, 1905-1945 6. Cultures in the Mirror: Japanese and Western theatres as a factor of interaction. From At the Hawk’s Well to Takahime and beyond 7. Indian Performers on the German Stage: Uday Shankar, the Menaka Ballet and Transnational Touring in the 1930s 8. Theatre and migration in interwar Australia: the idea of ‘national identity’ as a problem in cultural historiography 9. Music of the Community in Chinatowns: Cantonese Opera across the Borders 10. Migrations and/in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Broadway Musical 11. Master’s Diasporas in the Age of Totalitarianism 12. Another ‘home’. Polish theatres in Lviv during the first and second Soviet occupation (1939-1941, 1944-1946) Section 2 Postwar, Cold War, and Post-Colonial Rules 13. Exile, the Archive and the Repertoire: Challenges to a History of Spanish Theatre 14. The masters and the ‘other’: Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba 15. (E)Migrate, or not to (e)migrate? Grotowski’s dilemma and its consequences for the Performing Arts in (e)migration 16. Embodying change: Rudolf Nureyev’s migrant body at the dawn of the twenty-first century 17. Hemispheric Theatre and Performance across the Americas: Latinidad Beyond Borders 18. Stages, Borders, and Crossroads: Egyptian and Tunisian Theatre in the Age of Migration 19. Migration on the Turkish Stage: Three Snapshots from the 1900s to the 2020s 20. From stage to screen a journey of performing arts in Kenyan education 21. Myths and Practices of African Theatre in France Section 3 Collapsing Powers, Everlasting Mobilities: Emerging Paradigms Towards the Present 22. Nationalism and Migration in Russian Theatre 23. Scenes of Service: Italian Migration, Performed Visibility, and the Theatre of Closure 24. A Classical Melting Pot: Legacy, Migration and Twenty-First Century Spanish Theatre (Animalario and Lola Blasco 25. Imaginaries of migration between exploitation and transformation 26. Fingerprints, Soul-Seekers, Mother Tongues: Theatre & Migration in Belgium (2010-2025) 27. Theatre as social practice at the southern gates of Europe 28. Theatre as Breathing: Applied Theatre Practices with Refugees in the Arab Region 29. Examining the UK asylum system through the lens of Applied Theatre 30. Rewriting Antigone in Postmigrant Britain: Theatre, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging 31. Theatre work environments and the Ukraine war: migration as a building block of artists’ identity and image 32. Marriage migration and theatrical affairs