Dialogue: The Role of the Editor

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Burt, Philippa and Shevtsova, Maria. 2024. Dialogue: The Role of the Editor. New Theatre Quarterly, 40(4), ISSN 0266-464X [Article] (In Press)

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World-renowned New Theatre Quarterly celebrates its fifty years of publication and its two hundred issues, this being the last under the editorship of Maria Shevtsova. Simon Trussler, founder of Theatre Quarterly in 1971 (closed for lack of funding in 1981) always considered New Theatre Quarterly, established with Cambridge University Press in 1986, simply a continuation of TQ. Maria Shevtsova fully agreed. Forty issues of TQ combined with one hundred and sixty of NTQ gives the magic figure 200. The logistics of things, however, means that the number 160 appears on the cover of the present issue Note that the ‘new’ of NTQ stands for the newly resurgent journal on the back of its predecessor. This present issue also celebrates Maria Shevtsova’s twenty years of co-editorship with Simon Trussler together with five more years of sole editorship of the journal after his death in 2019 (commemorated in NTQ 142, May 2020; see also their respective editorials ‘One Hundred Issues and After’ in NTQ 100, November 2009). Twenty-five years of absolute commitment and tireless work call for recognition and thanks. Assistant editor Philippa Burt here discusses with Shevtsova her vision for the journal and how her scholarship, research, teaching and numerous academic and outreach activities in multiple media connected with her editorial commitment. This conversation took place on 19 June 2024.

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This article will be published in a revised form in New Theatre Quarterly [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed.

Keywords:

interdisciplinarity, mentorship, legacy, archives, memory, theatre cultures

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Theatre and Performance (TAP)

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