Modern Drama (MD) is the most prominent journal in English to focus on dramatic literature. The journal has been distinguished by its close readings of both canonical and lesser-known dramatic texts from a range of methodological perspectives.
As a migrant to the United States from Puerto Rico in the early 1990s, I learned to articulate my sexuality and my political identity at the dance club. Within the erotic realm of clubs like Heaven, Carpe Diem, Club Marcella's, and The Avenue Pub, I ...
This paper examines an Australian “verbatim play” about asylum seekers, Through the Wire, in order to consider the relationship between realism and witnessing in the theatre. It argues that verbatim or testimonial theatre is better understood as ...
Immigrants to Germany have fought for decades to be recognized in the country’s artistic sphere. In the German theatre, there was no such recognition before the beginning of the twenty-first century, when the opening of the Ballhaus Naunynstraße and the ...
In adapting the nineteenth-century melodrama The Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins both satirizes Boucicault’s racial assumptions and emulates his aesthetic principles to produce a meta-melodrama, a play that at once celebrates and critiques its own form while ...
