No 20 (2025)

The Missing of it All: Archives, Artists, and Absences

Edited by: Chris Hay, Sarah Peters, and David Simes.

Articles by: Nicola Hyland, Alexandra Tálamo, Meredith Rogers, Davina Wright, Missy Mooney, Jo Palazuelos-Krukowski, Sue-Anne Wallace, Izabella Nantsou, Matt Bapty, and Asher Warren.

Interviews and dialogues with: Tiffany Knight, Nescha Jelk, Fleur Kilpatrick, Kirste Vandergiessen, and Sarah Peters.

Table of Contents

Editorial

The Missing of it All: Archives, Artists, and Absences
David Simes, Chris Hay, Sarah Peters
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1-8

Articles

Say Your Right Words: The Extrasensory Experiences of Māori Storytelling and ‘Re-storying’ Contemporary Performance Methodologies
Nicola Hyland
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9-26
Dancing in the Mexican Sun: Attention Work as Postmemorial Re-timing
Alexandra Tálamo
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27-40
Archive as Chamber of Infinite Recession: How do we as Artists, Creators, and Performers contribute to a Living Archive?
Meredith Rogers, Davina Wright
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41-55
Life and Death, Presence and Absence: The Alchemy of the Archive in Posthumous Documentary Theatre
Missy Mooney
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56-76
Radio Performance as Spectral Theatre: Synchretic Storytelling in the Home and the Nation
Jo Palazuelos-Krukowski
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77-98
Absent Voices: Resurfacing Walter Bentley’s Leading Ladies (May Brookyn, Florence Grant, Minnie Brandon and Melba Watt) in the late-Nineteenth Century
Sue-Anne Wallace
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99-120
Political Theatre in the ‘Climate of Fear’: Censorship, Dissent, and Kennett’s Victoria
Izabella Nantsou
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121-139
Written into Nonbeing: Queer Self-Effacement in the Work of Kester Berwick
Matt Bapty
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140-157
A Theatre Full of Junk: Haunted by an Unruly Archive
Asher Warren
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158-175

Interviews & Dialogues

The Artist’s Archive: The Traces of Independent and Community Theatre
Tiffany Knight, Nescha Jelk, Fleur Kilpatrick, Kirste Vandergiessen, Sarah Peters
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176-188