*** Winner of the 2024 ATHE Excellence in Editing award! ***
The award committee found Troubling Traditions to be timely, urgent, and quite comprehensive in its approach. It brings many perspectives on canonicity and decolonization, and showcases the variety of approaches and theories to working with, revising, and deconstructing the canon. It effectively balances coauthorship and polyvocality with the editors’ direct and practical statement of the project, clearly articulating why considering canonicity is necessary for theatre scholars and teachers today. We appreciated the opportunity to reflect on the ethics of what we teach, how we teach, and what we are teaching toward. This book will be an essential collection for teachers and students in coming years.

-ATHE’s Awards Committee

Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon. Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation, and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field’s relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by this book on the canon interrogate the field’s fundamental values, and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute this discipline.

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