This paper was given as part of the Intermediality and Performance working group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) world congress at the University of Melbourne, Australia on July 7, 2026. Abstract Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis is a live performance by Mexican-American artist Tosca Terán that stages ecological interdependence as an embodied experience in a British…
Tag: Theatre Ecology
Book chapter in 漂流の演劇 – 維新派のパースペクティブ [Lit. Theatre Adrift: The Ishinha Perspective] Osaka UP
A chapter I wrote on a site-specific production by the erstwhile Osaka-based theatre company Ishinha was published in a new book looking at the company’s work and legacy.
Mourning in, as and for the Theatre: the case of Ishinha’s Amahara
Paper given at the 15th International European Association of Japanese Studies Conference, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. 31 August 2017. Abstract Performing on deserted beaches, and in villages, temples, dockland warehouses and urban railyards, few theatre companies have traversed the range of landscapes and settings that inspired the Osaka-based Ishinha. Yet though journeys…
On Ishinha’s Final Show: “Amahara”
This article was originally published in the Japan Times Newspaper on September 27 2016. Performing on deserted beaches and in villages, temples, dockland warehouses and urban railyards, few theater companies can have traversed the range of landscapes and settings that have inspired Osaka-based Ishinha. Yet though journeys real and imagined have been key themes in…
In Search of Direction: Mapping, Materiality and Theatre Ecology in Rural Japan
Paper given at the IFTR 2016 Conference at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Abstract For the past forty-five years, Yukichi Matsumoto and the Osaka-based Ishinha theatre company have been creating site-specific performances that explore the intersection of urban and rural life in Japan. The company’s most recent work, “Twilight” (2015), was devised in Soni Village,…
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