KFIR LAPID-MASHALL
research
My research is situated within the intersections of theatre and law, legal performance, verbatim theatre, performance of the real, performance of violence, and political theatre.
Additionally, I am particularly interested in queer performance and queer theory, practice as research, and the performance of resistance and decolonization.
Conferences & Public Talks
2023
Writing in Cafés: How I Resist Disembodied Writing
A paper presented at This PhD Life conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Strained Mercy: Censorship and the Search for Guilt in the 1936 Self-Imposed Trial of HaBima
A paper presented at the 25th annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
Poster at Research Firsts exhibition, Advanced Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland.
2022
The Trial of Ham: A Micro Mock Trial
An interactive talk presented at the Black History Month events of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, Scotland.
Enduring Friction: Theatre on Trial
A paper presented at the conference “Hear Them Speak: Voices in Literature, Culture and the Arts,” University of Glasgow, Scotland.
2020
Resisting the Urge to Defend the Essentiality of Art
A paper presented in “Three Minutes on Art, Culture, and COVID-19”, an online video exhibition by the Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University. (Hebrew)
2018
Drama, Manic-Depression, and Patient Rights
Public talk at Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel.
2017
Theatre, Law, and Hanoch Levin’s Rape Trial
Public talk at Café Rega, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Publications
“Ashes to Ashes: Is Expression of Female Violence Just Too Much?,” Performance Research, Vol. 28, Issue 3 (2024).
“The Irruption of Real Violence: the Open Dramaturgy of Theatrical Mock Trials in Milo Rau’s The Moscow Trials,” Documenta, Vol. 41, issue 2 (2023).
“The Transfiguration of Cargo Shorts: Reclaiming the QueeRevolution,” Journal of Imaginary Research, Vol. 7 (2022), 28-29.