The Theatre History Project · Unit 1 · Methods & Sources
Who Gets to Write History?
Archives, Memory, and the Making of Theatre History
Before studying theatre's past, we investigate how history is constructed, whose stories are preserved, and whose performances have been erased from the archive.
Four ways in
Experience it. Understand it. Question it. Connect it.
Move between layers in any order. Every page links to related material in the other three.
Layer 1 · Experience it4 chapters
The Graphic Novel
What is it like to decide what gets remembered — and to be the one left out?
Layer 2 · Understand it23 entries
The Encyclopedia
Who, what, where, when, and why?
Layer 3 · Question it4 essays
The Scholarly Journal
How do we know what we think we know, and who gets to decide?
Layer 4 · Connect it5 case studies
The Living Stage
Where is this history still alive, and what can we do with it?
The guiding idea
Theatre history is not dead. It is still happening.