Szabolcs Musca

University of Bristol | UB · Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television

This two-day workshop bring together cultural and creative professionals, researchers, and activists from both migrant and non-migrant heritage engaged with migrant and minority theatre & performance to discuss new ways of cooperation, artmaking and representation. A core part of this event is to scope new policy visions on inclusivity and diversit...

Drawing on the recent UK-based theatre project Migrations: Harbour Europe, the chapter examines migrant theatre initiatives that practice resistance, political responsiveness and solidarity while resisting established narratives and fostering new aesthetics of migration and refugeedom. Migrations: Harbour Europe project was developed by the migrant...

Panel Discussion, 2 November 2021, Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester & Online. What are the strategies and challenges faced by refugee artists today? How can networks foster systemic change? How can we develop new frameworks driven by artistic vision created by refugee artists? This panel discussion brought together refugee artists ad...

This article looks at dramaturgical practices within a recent visual and immersive migrant theatre and refugee performance initiative that questions both the politics and representations of memory. Drawing on Caroline Williams and Reem Karssli’s recent performance work Now Is The Time to Say Nothing (2018), I examine emerging dramaturgical models t...

We recently curated and hosted an online Knowledge Café together with LegalAliens Theatre, as a response to the company’s podcast series entitled ‘Things I Am Not’. Our discussion was led by interventions from MDN board members Dr Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland, AUS), Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol, UK) and Dr Anika Marschall(...

In the summer of 2017, Szabolcs Musca and Graça P. Corrêa followed the production process of Passajar, an immersive participatory theatre project collaboratively created by four theatre-makers and refugees from Congo, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Zimbabwe. Developed under the curatorship of Portuguese choreographer Madalena Victorino for Festival Todos in...

This event forms part of a pilot experimental research and performance project that brings together migrant theatre-makers and scholars from theatre, migration & mobility studies, environmental humanities and media studies from Bristol, the South West and London. We explore new forms of migrant representations and performance practices emerging fro...

This journal issue looks at ethical positions and qualities in artistic processes and aesthetic modalities of migrant representation in contemporary theatre and performance in Europe and beyond. The journal issue is informed by the work of Migrant Dramaturgies Network, an international research network that explores emerging dramaturgies of theatr...

Programme: https://migrantdramaturgies.tumblr.com/post/181807212992/programme-and-booking-migrations-harbour-europe

CFP: https://migrantdramaturgies.tumblr.com/post/178945042532/cfp-performing-ethos

CFP: https://newtidesplatform.org/2015/01/06/call-for-papers/

This conversation traces the creation of Todos Festival, one of the most important international socially engaged multi-arts festivals in Southern Europe. In dialogue with artistic director, Madalena Victorino, the festival will be portrayed as a space for encounter and performative exploration of difference, linking marginalised migrant and minori...

Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social, and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. While doing so, the volume reflects on recent transformations in structural, textual, and theatrical conventions and traditions, and explores the changing...

This article is concerned with the European public theatre system’s relationship with migration. Focusing on the Portuguese theatre landscape and especially Lisbon, the essay will map some of the major issues regarding theatre and migration today, identifying both systemic failures and structural and aesthetic shifts in the public theatres’ engagem...

This chapter discusses the role of translating communities in the context of international theatre festivals and cross-national theatre collaborations. Drawing on a wide range of examples, it presents these international platforms as shared cultural spaces where national and cultural differences are negotiated and where cultural value systems inter...

European Journal of Theatre and Performance, No.1; Performing Statelessness in Europe by S.E. Wilmer. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN 9783319691725 (hardcover); ISBN, 9783319691732 (eBook)

Aston Elaine and O’Thomas MarkRoyal Court: InternationalBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 248 p. £18.99. ISBN: 978-1-137-46182-7. - Volume 32 Issue 1 - Szabolcs Musca

Wetmore Kevin J. Jr., Liu Siyuan, and Mee Erin B.Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. 304 p. £17.99. ISBN: 978-1-4081-7718-1. - Volume 31 Issue 2 - Szabolcs Musca