This book responds to, reflects, and re-examines the experience of crisis and its presentation in theatre by bringing together a diversified range of scholarly perspectives. The volume rests on interdisciplinary frameworks that include Performance Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Existential Philosophy, and many more. Through an in-depth study, this volume explores how playwrights, artists, and performance practitioners have analyzed theatrical forms to negotiate identity and reimagine crisis to facilitate survival and transformation.

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