How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.

Introduction PART I: THE SPACE OF FORMATIONS 1. Performing Speciation: The Nature/Culture Divide at The Creation Museum; Angenette Spalink and Scott Magelssen 2. A Ridiculous Space: Considering the Historiography of the Theatre of the Ridiculous; Kelly Aliano 3. The Evolving Process of an Historical View: Aleks Sierz and British Theatre in the 1990s; Yael Zarhy-Levo 4. Latino/a dramaturgy as Historiography; Patricia Ybarra PART II: TEMPORAL MATTER 5. The Design of Theatrical Wonder in Roy Mitchell's The Chester Mysteries; Patricia Badir 6. Performing Ruhe: Police, Taste, and the Archive; Jan Lazardzig 7. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzmán's Chile, Memoria Obstinada; Kaitlin McNally-Murphy PART III: MATERIAL SPACES 8. Adorno, Baroque, Gardens, Ruzzante: Rearranging Theatre Historiography; Will Daddario 9. A Critique of Historio-Scenography: Space and Time in Joseph-François-Louis Grobert's De l'exécution dramatique; Pannill Camp 10. The Ground of (Im)Potential: Historiography and the Earthquake; Gwyneth Shanks 11. Thinking the Space(s) of Historiography: Latina/o Ethnicity Theatre; Jon D. Rossini