• Technology-mediated performance and media turn in theatre, examining how video, electroacoustics, and sound design mediate live theatre and its archival/representational practices [1], [18], [11].

• Visuality, image–text relations, and the ascent of visual culture in theatre and art, through semiotics, captions, and the tourist gaze [8], [14], [19].

• Identity and embodiment in performance: costume, disguise, gender constructions, and nonverbal behavior shaping interpretation [3], [5], [20], [2].

• Historical and critical methodologies tracing cultural history, marginality, vision critique, and description as performative methods [6], [9], [7], [17].