Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory

Milija Gluhovic is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include Performing European Memories: Trauma, Ethics, Politics (2013), International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline? (2018), Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation and Politics (2017), and Performing the ‘New’ Europe: Identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (2013).

It is a true pleasure to read Milija Gluhovic’s lucidly written book Memory, which fills a significant gap in theatre history studies … Gluhovic has written a tremendously important book which encapsulates the function of memory in theatre and performance as well as theatre and performance historiography ... This book is a wake-up call for everyone who cares about using memory in theatre and performance to recognise the past in the global present and to attempt to learn from history in the way in which we describe memory.

• Acknowledgements Series PrefaceINTRODUCTIONSECTION ONE: Mapping Memory: Theorizing RecollectionThe Classical and Medieval Practice of Mnemotechnics: How Memory Works on StageMemory and Theatre in a Global AgeSECTION TWO: Searching for Common Ground: Performance, Testimony, and Small Acts of RepairCase study 1: Lola Arias’s MinefieldCase study 2: Yael Ronen’s Common GroundCase study 3: Robert Lepage's The Seven Streams of the River OtaSECTION THREE: Memory and MigrationCase study 1: Andrea Levy’s Small IslandCase study 2: André Amálio’s Portugal is not a small countryTheatre and Memory in the Age of the AnthropoceneBIBLIOGRAPHYNotesIndex