Kfir Lapid
@kfirlapid.bsky.social
Queer 🏳️🌈 Humanist 👣 artist-scholar
PhD researcher, University of Glasgow
Reviews Editor, Performance Research
#JudicialTheatre
For more: bio.site/KfirLapid
PhD researcher, University of Glasgow
Reviews Editor, Performance Research
#JudicialTheatre
For more: bio.site/KfirLapid
Fully jazzed to get the opportunity to discuss SHOW.TRIAL. at this year’s IFTR. It marks the first time I debate my own work at a conference - and I truly can’t wait to hear people’s thoughts about it!
See you soon Cologne x
See you soon Cologne x
May 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Fully jazzed to get the opportunity to discuss SHOW.TRIAL. at this year’s IFTR. It marks the first time I debate my own work at a conference - and I truly can’t wait to hear people’s thoughts about it!
See you soon Cologne x
See you soon Cologne x
Will be at King’s College London for a couple of weeks in June: any theatre/performance (beyond the west end), exhibitions, events, or queers I should know about? Xx
May 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Will be at King’s College London for a couple of weeks in June: any theatre/performance (beyond the west end), exhibitions, events, or queers I should know about? Xx
From Jo Clifford’s sublime play “The Gospel according to Jesus, Queen of Heaven”:
April 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
From Jo Clifford’s sublime play “The Gospel according to Jesus, Queen of Heaven”:
Goodbye to the curious, intelligent, vibrant, mischievous students of the Spring ’25 Theatre and Society seminar
April 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Goodbye to the curious, intelligent, vibrant, mischievous students of the Spring ’25 Theatre and Society seminar
“Imagine a Review”
My review of “In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group” (edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough) became one of my most personal published pieces.
Read here (or DM for access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My review of “In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group” (edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough) became one of my most personal published pieces.
Read here (or DM for access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“Imagine a Review”
My review of “In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group” (edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough) became one of my most personal published pieces.
Read here (or DM for access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My review of “In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group” (edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough) became one of my most personal published pieces.
Read here (or DM for access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The final seminar of the semester. I’ll miss my brilliant students!
March 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The final seminar of the semester. I’ll miss my brilliant students!
Some of the words that came up in a discussion of “They Shoot Horses” (Phil Collins, 2004): endurance, exoticism, agency, authenticity, authority, exploitation, violence, colonialism, resistance, exhaustion, intimacy, joy… these students are just brilliant!
March 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Some of the words that came up in a discussion of “They Shoot Horses” (Phil Collins, 2004): endurance, exoticism, agency, authenticity, authority, exploitation, violence, colonialism, resistance, exhaustion, intimacy, joy… these students are just brilliant!
A sneak preview from the interview I conducted with the fabulous artist duo Blaue&Poppy for Theater Magazine about their (our?) practice and the concerns of Post-Truth
March 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A sneak preview from the interview I conducted with the fabulous artist duo Blaue&Poppy for Theater Magazine about their (our?) practice and the concerns of Post-Truth
In today’s seminar, I invited the student to cross-examine me as a way to think through participatory practices in performance
February 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In today’s seminar, I invited the student to cross-examine me as a way to think through participatory practices in performance
6. "Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice: Perspectives from Australian theatre" written by Sarah Peters and David Burton, published by Routledge (2024) - review by Caroline Wake
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
6. "Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice: Perspectives from Australian theatre" written by Sarah Peters and David Burton, published by Routledge (2024) - review by Caroline Wake
5. "Pakistan Desires: Queer futures elsewhere" edited by Omar Kasmani, published by Duke University Press (2023) - review by Aziz Sohail
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
5. "Pakistan Desires: Queer futures elsewhere" edited by Omar Kasmani, published by Duke University Press (2023) - review by Aziz Sohail
4. "Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre" written by María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández and Jonathan Thacker, published by Liverpool University Press (2023) - review by Julio Vélez Sainz
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
4. "Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre" written by María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández and Jonathan Thacker, published by Liverpool University Press (2023) - review by Julio Vélez Sainz
3. "Realisms in East Asian Performance" written by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li, published by University of Michigan Press (2023) - review by Hansol Oh
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
3. "Realisms in East Asian Performance" written by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li, published by University of Michigan Press (2023) - review by Hansol Oh
2."Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political performance and Victorian social reform" written by Tracy C. Davis, published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment (2023) - review by Jennifer DeVere Brody
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
2."Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political performance and Victorian social reform" written by Tracy C. Davis, published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment (2023) - review by Jennifer DeVere Brody
I invite you to engage with this brilliant collection of titles:
1. "Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and differential movement in African diasporic performance" written by Hershini Bhana Young, published by New York University Press (2023) - review by Dotun Ayobade
1. "Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and differential movement in African diasporic performance" written by Hershini Bhana Young, published by New York University Press (2023) - review by Dotun Ayobade
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I invite you to engage with this brilliant collection of titles:
1. "Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and differential movement in African diasporic performance" written by Hershini Bhana Young, published by New York University Press (2023) - review by Dotun Ayobade
1. "Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and differential movement in African diasporic performance" written by Hershini Bhana Young, published by New York University Press (2023) - review by Dotun Ayobade
The Reviews section for issue 29.1 of Performance Research Journal themed "On Repertoire" (edited by Mischa Twitchin), is particularly dear to me. Here's why.
All available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/2...
All available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/2...
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Reviews section for issue 29.1 of Performance Research Journal themed "On Repertoire" (edited by Mischa Twitchin), is particularly dear to me. Here's why.
All available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/2...
All available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/2...
Just me and my pal Charles Hepburn
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just me and my pal Charles Hepburn
January 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Being a good student at the teacher-training session
January 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Being a good student at the teacher-training session
Meet your new drama teacher
January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Meet your new drama teacher
That’s how I feel ahead of 2025
December 31, 2024 at 11:36 AM
That’s how I feel ahead of 2025
There is nothing like the first few hours of excitement & dread when you’re sitting down to write a new article that was accepted for publication (about your own work!). Was it as I wanted it to be? Was it as I remember it? Was it any good? Was I too exposed? Will I be now?
December 30, 2024 at 3:24 PM
There is nothing like the first few hours of excitement & dread when you’re sitting down to write a new article that was accepted for publication (about your own work!). Was it as I wanted it to be? Was it as I remember it? Was it any good? Was I too exposed? Will I be now?