Abstract
Backpages is an opportunity for the academy to engage with theatre and performance practice with immediacy and insight and for theatre workers and performance artists to engage critically and reflectively on their work and the work of their peers.This issue begins with an impassioned reflection on thinking outside market-driven economics by theatre-maker Alan Lane. It continues with a tribute section to British playwright and influential mentor to a generation of British playwrights, Stephen Jeffreys, who passed away on 17 September 2018. It concludes with three in memoriam reflections to four extraordinary individuals of the theatre: Elyse Dodgson, who founded the International Department at the Royal Court Theatre in London; Elena Gremina and Mikhail Ugarov, who founded Teatr.doc in Russia; and the master playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who passed away at the age of 88 on 30 October 2018, after nearly ten-years of suffering from Alzheimer’s-related illness. Fornes taught at least three generations of playwrights, among them Cherrie Moraga, Eduardo Machado, Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Octavio Solis, and myself. – Caridad Svich
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