1. Theatre and Migration: Defining the Field.- Section One: Theatre and Migration: Themes and Concepts.- 2. The Eternal Immigrant and the Aesthetics of Solidarity.- 3. ‘A Real State of Exception’: Walter Benjamin and the Paradox of Theatrical Representation.- 4. Theatre as Refrain: Representations of Departure from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto. 5. Refugees and the Right to Have Rights.- 6. Postmigrant Theatre and its Impact on Contemporary German Theatre.- 7. Interculturalism and Migration in Performance: From Distant Otherness to the Precarity of Proximity.- 8. Cosmopolitanism: The Troublesome Offset of Global Migration.-
9. Indigenous Migrations: Performance, Urbanization and Survivance in Native North America.- 10. Migratory Blackness in Leave Taking and Elmina’s Kitchen.- 11. ‘What needs to happen so we may remain at home?’: Climate Migration and Performance.- 12. Theatre’s Digital Migration, by Matthew Causey.- Section Two: Early Representations of Migration.- 13. Theatre and Migration in Gilgamesh.- 14. Migration and Ancient Indian Theatre.- 15. Fated Arrivals: Greek Tragedy and Migration.- 16. Migration in Greek and Roman Comedy.-
17. Migrating Souls and Witnessing Travellers in the Dramaturgy of No Theatre.- 18. The Things She Carried: The Vertical Migrations of Lady Rokujo in Japanese Theatre.-19. The Stranger’s Case: Exile in Shakespeare.- 20. The ‘English Comedy’ in Early Modern Europe: Migration, Emigration, Integration.- 21. Migrations and Cultural Navigations on Early-Modern Italian Stages.- Section Three: Migration and Nationalism.- 22. Immigration and Family Life on the Early Twentieth-Century Argentine Stage.- 23. Sonless Mothers and Motherless Sons, or How Has Polishness Haunted Polish Theatre Artists in Exile?.- 24. All Our Migrants: Place and Displacement on the Israeli Stage.- 25. Shylock is Me: AryehElias as an Immigrant Jewish-Iraqi Actor in the Israeli Theatre.- 26. Emerging, Staying or Leaving: ‘Immigrant’ Theatre in Canada.- 27. Migrant Artists and Precarious Labour in Contemporary Russian Theatre.- 28. Chicano Theatre and (Im)migration: La víctima.- 29. Staging War at the Home Depot: Yoshua Okón’s Octopus and the Shadow Economy of Migrant Labour.- 30. From Emigrant to Migrant Nation: Reckoning with Irish Historical Duty.- 31. Dwelling in Multiple Languages: The Impossible Journeys Home in the Work of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan.- Section Four: Migration, Colonialism and Forced Displacement.- 32. The Theatre of Displacement and Migration in Southern Africa: Zimbabwe and South Africa in Focus.- 33. From the Yoruba Travelling Theatre to the Nobel Prize in Literature: Nigerian Theatre in Motion.- 34. Migratory Subjectivities and African Diasporic Theatre: Race, Gender and Nation.- 35. Immobile Relegations and Exiles:Creation and Migration in French Theatre Between 1980 and 2020.- 36. Storying Home: Retracing the Trail of Tears to Restore Ekvnvcakv.- 37. Diasporic Trauma, Nativized Innovation, and Techno-Intercultural Predicament: The Story of Jingju in Taiwan.- 38. Our Life Together: War, Migration, and Family Drama in Korean American Theatre.- 39. Chronicles of Refugees Foretold, by Hala Khamis Nassar.- 40. Ukrainian Theatre in Migration: Military Anthropology Perspective.- Section Five: Refugees.- 41. Spaces and Memories of Migration in Twenty-First Century Greek Theatre: Station Athens’ I Left (E_F??a).- 42. Troubled Waters: The Representation of Refugees in Maltese Theatre.- 43. Staging Borders: Immigration Drama in Spain, from the 1990s to the Present.- 44. Performance and Asylum Seekers in Australia (2000-2020).- 45. Ramadram: Refugee Struggles, Empowerment and Institutional Openings in German Theatre.- 46. To Come Between: Refugees at Sea, from Representation to Direct Action.- 47. Theatre, Migration, and Activism: The Work of Good Chance Theatre.- 48. Theatre and Migration in the Balkans: The Death of Asylum in Žiga Divjak’s The Game.- 49. Theatre of the Syrian Diaspora.- 50. The Finnish National Theatre, Refugees, and Equality.- Section Six: Itinerancy, Traveling and Transnationalism.- 51. Transnationality: Intercultural Dialogues, Encounters, and the Theatres of Curiosity.- 52. German Theatre and August von Kotzebue’s Theatrical Success and Pitfalls in Russia.- 53. The Itinerant Puppet.- 54. Fin-de-siècle Black Minstrelsy, Itinerancy, and the Anglophone Imperial Circuit.- 55. Actor Migration to and from Britain in the Nineteenth Century.- 56. Migration and Marathi Theatre in Colonial India, 1850-1900.- 57. The Dybbuk: Wandering Souls of the Vilna Troupe and Habimah Theatre.- 58. Indian Circus: A Melting Pot of Migrant Artists,Performativity, and Race.- 59. Contemporary (Post-)Migrant Theatre in Belgium and the Migratory Aesthetics of Milo Rau’s Theatre of the Real.- 60. Belarus Free Theatre: Political Theatre in Exile.