I work on a variety of topics in theatre studies, performance studies, and performance theory. Right now, I’m dividing my research time between work on contemporary realism and naturalism, and work on urban performance theory and practice. I often use feminist theories and methodologies, and I consider myself to be politically feminist; that means I actively concern myself with sexual and gender equality – for everyone on the spectrum – in everything I do. In addition to my research in theatre and performance studies, I also contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning. I am an active member of the University of Western Ontario's Research on Teaching and Learning Community, and I regularly contribute talks and other presentations to UWO's excellent Teaching Support Centre. I consider ongoing learning about teaching (and teaching well) to be an integral part of my job. Beyond Western, I am a member of the executive committee at the Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR), a member of the editorial board at Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC/RTC), a member of the board at Playwrights Canada Press (PCP; please click the link at right!), and the book review editor (2011-14) of Theatre Survey. If you'd like more information about my work – my publications, my teaching, or anything else - please visit my primary web site at http://publish.uwo.ca/~ksolga. Thanks!
Drama
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)
Can theatre kill? If it can, where does that leave its scholars, students, practitioners? What...
Realism and the Ethics of Risk at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Bulletin (2010)
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience...
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...
Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009)
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance explores rape and domestic violence against women around...
Blasted’s Hysteria: Rape, Realism, and the Thresholds of the Visible, Modern Drama (2007)
A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted: the rape...
Theatre
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)
Can theatre kill? If it can, where does that leave its scholars, students, practitioners? What...
Artifacting an Intercultural Nation: Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES, TDR: The Drama Review (2010)
At first, BIOBOXES, by Vancouver's Theatre Replacement, seems like straightforward multiculti fare—theatre celebrating Canada's cultural...
Realism and the Ethics of Risk at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Bulletin (2010)
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience...
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...
Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009)
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance explores rape and domestic violence against women around...
Performance Theory
Performance and the City (with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr) (2011)
Urban Studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now...
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)
Can theatre kill? If it can, where does that leave its scholars, students, practitioners? What...
Realism and the Ethics of Risk at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Bulletin (2010)
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience...
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...
Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009)
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance explores rape and domestic violence against women around...
Performance Studies
Performance and the City (with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr) (2011)
Urban Studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now...
Artifacting an Intercultural Nation: Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES, TDR: The Drama Review (2010)
At first, BIOBOXES, by Vancouver's Theatre Replacement, seems like straightforward multiculti fare—theatre celebrating Canada's cultural...
Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto (with Laura Levin), TDR: The Drama Review (2009)
Toronto markets itself as a city in renewal, a “creative city” of the future full...
Feminism
Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009)
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance explores rape and domestic violence against women around...
Body Doubles, Babel's Voices: Katie Mitchell's Iphigenia at Aulis and the Theatre of Sacrifice, Contemporary Theatre Review (2008)
What happens to a body when circumstance demands it enact its own forgetting? What reaction...
The Line, the Crack, and the Possibility of Architecture: Figure, Ground, Feminist Performance, Theatre Research in Canada (2008)
How and where do architecture and performance collide? Theatre studies has been, over the course...
Blasted’s Hysteria: Rape, Realism, and the Thresholds of the Visible, Modern Drama (2007)
A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted: the rape...
Rape’s Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among the Early Moderns, Theatre Journal (2006)
What happens when theatre crosses the line, risks danger in the real? This paper explores...
Queer theory
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...
Urban Studies
Performance and the City (with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr) (2011)
Urban Studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now...
Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto (with Laura Levin), TDR: The Drama Review (2009)
Toronto markets itself as a city in renewal, a “creative city” of the future full...
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...
Research on Teaching and Learning
Building the Activist Classroom: Learning to Collaborate, Learning through Performance in English 2470: Canadian Drama (with Paige-Tiffany Beck and Lauren Moore), Canadian Theatre Review (2011)
This article, co-authored with two of my former undergraduate students, considers what went right –...
The Activist Classroom: Performance and Pedagogy, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)
As teachers of theatre history, theory, and performance theory and practice we engage in crucial...