Writing

This is a personal repository of my existing publications. I have linked to a full copy or a sample of these when appropriate. If you don’t have institutional access to any of these publications and are seeking to read them, please do get in touch. I will do my best to help.

Beyond the publications below, you can find details of other research activity and projects in Plotting.


Monograph

Delgado-García, Cristina, Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity, CDE Studies 26 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015)

Sample

Reviews


Edited collection

Aragay, Mireia, Cristina Delgado-García, and Martin Middeke, eds, Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Endorsements


Book chapters

Aragay, Mireia, Cristina Delgado-García, and Martin Middeke, ‘Introduction: Thinking-Feeling Our Way’, in Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage, ed. by Mireia Aragay, Cristina Delgado-García and Martin Middeke (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 1–18

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Contemporary British Theatre, Democracy and Affect: States of Feeling’, in Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage, ed. by Mireia Aragay, Cristina Delgado-García and Martin Middeke (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 149–170

Delgado-García, Cristina, Introduction, in X, by Alistair McDowall (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021), pp. v–xxiv

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘An Interview with Simon Banham, Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea’, parts one to five, in Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.: Staging Life and Death, ed. by Simon Banham, Sarah Hunter, Michael Brady and Renny O’Shea (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 10–11, 16–22, 69–73, 112–113

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘A Programme Note from Summer.’, in Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.: Staging Life and Death, ed. by Simon Banham, Sarah Hunter, Michael Brady and Renny O’Shea (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), p. 23

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘“We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author’, in Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre, ed. by Mireia Aragay and Martin Middeke, CDE Studies 28 (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 91–107

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Making Time: The Prefigurative Politics of Quarantine’s Entitled’, in Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe, ed. by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 94–112


Journal articles

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘“Who Is the Performer and Who Is the Spectator?”: Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea in Conversation with Cristina Delgado-García’, JCDE 4.1 (2016), 212–26

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Dematerialised Political and Theatrical Legacies: Rethinking the Roots and Influences of Tim Crouch’s Work’, Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 8.1 (2014), 69–85

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Subversion, Refusal, and Contingency: The Transgression of Liberal-Humanist Subjectivity and Characterization in Sarah Kane’s CleansedCrave, and 4.48 Psychosis’, Modern Drama 55.2 (2012), 230–50


Reviews, programme notes & other publications

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘A Citizens’ Assembly‘, reflection on Andy Smith’s performance of A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY and workshop ‘Audience, Acting, Activity and Activism’ workshop, both supported by The Dear Green Bothy and Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow (Glasgow: James Arnott Theatre, 5-6 March 2024), <https://deargreenbothy.gla.ac.uk/reflection/a-citizens-assembly/&gt; [Last accessed May 2024 – original site no longer live; the text and accompanying images remain available through the University of Glasgow’s Enlighten Publications link above]

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Sing Without Hope, Tender With Trust’, programme notes for 4.48 Psychosis, opera in one act based on the play by Sarah Kane, comp. Philip Venables, dir. Ted Huffman (London: Lyric Hammersmith, May 2016), pp. 4–7

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘On Summer’, programme notes for Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring, by Quarantine, dir. Richard Gregory (Manchester: Old Granada Studios, March-April 2016), pp. 8–10

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards… A Harvest of Memory’, preview notes for Autumn, by Quarantine, dir. Richard Gregory (Lancaster: Lancaster Arts, October 2015), <http://qtine.com/notebook/looking-backwards-looking-forwards-a-harvest-of-memory/>

Delgado-García, Cristina, ‘P is for Podemos’, in ‘Acts of Voting: A Lexicon’, ed. by Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager, Interventions 25.2 (2015), <http://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/2015/acts-of-voting-a-lexicon/>