Editorial, 43.2

ABSTRACT

This editorial reflects on an intervention at this year's International Federation of Theatre Research conference by Ghanaian trans artist and activist Va-Bene Elikem K. Fiatsi (aka crazinisT artisT). I read this performance as an enactment of the entanglement of the current state-sanctioned and extra-legal campaign of homophobic and transphobic violence in Ghana in the necro-politics of our planetary poly-crisis. Theatre's capacity to capture and embody such sociomaterial entanglements runs through all of the articles in this open issue, which tackle subjects as various as rehearsal studies, flamenco performance, Beckett's deconstruction of identity, the politics of Victorian burlesque, militarised masculinity in contemporary Russia, camp robots, and labour struggles in recent Zimbabwean theatre.

KEYWORDS:

• Politics
• crisis
• trans

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. Thank you to Joe Parslow for illuminating conversations both about this intervention and queer activism more widely.