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'Mammad Aidani's books, such as Narrative and Violence: Ways of Suffering Amongst Iranian Men in Diaspora, and plays, such as In the Mirror [La Mama 2021] and I Said This to the Bird [IPCS 2022 and La Mama 2023], explore what it is to be displaced in the modern world. For Aidani, the experience is one of 'catastrophe' and he argues that there is a compelling need for greater national and international recognition of the challenges of exile. Nonetheless, his works seek to find the humanity within exile, and explore what hope emerges when the need for human fellowship is realised.' 

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 82 1 April 2023 26601483 2023 periodical issue 'A colleague recently confessed in a seminar that they had begun as a researcher in order to garner the resources to embark on a creative work that they had long wanted to tackle, and then ‘fallen in love with research’. This narrative echoes my own, and that of many fine scholars in our discipline. We begin by wanting to make something and  emerge  with  a  fascination  for  how  things  are  made,  why  they  are made, where they sit in the context of contemporary practice and theory, where they are located culturally and geographically, and how they propel forward the quantum of knowledge in our discipline. The articles in this general issue are testament to the range of  forms  and  approaches  to  performance  currently  live  in  our  region,  and to the range of perspectives that can illuminate the expanding field of performance scholarship. As well, we have tested a change of format  in  which  we  publish  articles  of   conventional  length,  several  shorter articles and bracket the issue with two ‘provocations’, offered as departure points for future discussion.' (Yoni Prior , Editorial introduction) 2023 pg. 201-228
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