This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.

1. Staging the Story of a People: The Politics of Co-Performance at the National Museum of African American History and CultureJordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley2. Theatricality & Spectacle: The Museum as ObjectBryce Lease3. Curating the Experiential: The Imperial War Museum’s Revised Holocaust Galleries.James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease4. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral MemoriesMichal Kobialka5. On Crying Perpetrators and Subversive Laughter: Trans-Affiliative Encounters inside ESMA Memory MuseumCecilia Sosa6. Refracting Difficult Pasts: Temporal Answers and the In-Between.Rabih Mroué in conversation with Michal Kobialka7. Listening to the museum, hearing the mine: Mapa Teatro’s live réplica to modernityGiulia Palladini8. Showcasing Anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles: Museums and Theatre in ContestationBishnupriya Dutt9. ‘It’s art, all it can do is bear witness’: Remembering Histories of Enslavement in Black British Women’s Plays and at the International Slavery MuseumLynette Goddard10. Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Long Life to the Theatre!Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade11. On the Making of the Oratorio for the DisappearedErika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell12. Enforced Disappearance and Silenced Histories: Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021)Maria M. Delgado13. What Remains: Staging Memory of Enslavement in the Western CapeNadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease14. Marketing a Massacre: When Outdoor Dramas Become Dark TourismKatrina Phillips15. Epilogue - 10 Strategies for Exhibiting Absence & Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on DisplayJoanne Rosenthal