2021
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2021). The state of the British garden: Mike Bartlett's Albion and its Chekhovian scions. Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 14(2), 209-232. doi: 10.1386/jafp_00054_1
Young, S. (2021). Making the representation real: The actor and the spectator in Milo Rau's 'theatrical essays' Mitleid and La Reprise. New Theatre Quarterly, 37(3), 223-245. doi: 10.1017/S0266464X21000130
Performance
du Plessis, H. (cello), Halba, H. (writer, curator, director), O'Connor, S. (writer, curator, director), Young, S. (writer, curator, director), & Kalogeropoulou, S. (choreographer) (2021, 2-10 July). Struggling with Lentils, an immersive theatre installation, presented by Talking House in association with the School of Performing Arts, Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
2019
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., & Halba, H. (2019). Embodied technology in a specific verbatim theatre practice. Archée arts médiatiques & cyberculture, December. Retrieved from http://archee.qc.ca/wordpress/embodied-technology-in-a-specific-verbatim-theater-practice
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2019). [Review of the book I have loved me a man: The life and times of mika]. Australasian Drama Studies, (74), 331-336. [Book Review].
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2019). The state of the British garden: Mike Bartlett's Albion and its Chekhovian scions. Proceedings of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Conference: Theatre, Performance and Urbanism. (pp. 328). Retrieved from https://www.iftr.org
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Halba, H., Ridley, N., & Young, S. (2019, June). Running a festival: Student-centred and industry-based pedagogies. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference: Festivals and Performance, Launceston, Australia.
2018
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2018). Migrant, theatre of the real, dramaturgy. Proceedings of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) World Congress: Theatre & Migration. (pp. 704). Retrieved from https://www.iftr.org
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2018, June). Acting in verbatim theatre in the twenty-first century. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference: Actors and Acting in the Twenty-First Century, Melbourne, Australia.
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2018, May). Encountering the foreign(er) in theatre of the real. Department of Languages & Cultures Seminar Series, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2017
Edited Book - Research
O'Toole, E., Pelegrí Kristić, A., & Young, S. (Eds.). (2017). Ethical exchanges in translation, adaptation and dramaturgy. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 220p. doi: 10.1163/9789004346376
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2017). The ethics of the representation of the real people and their stories in verbatim theatre. In E. O'Toole, A. Pelegrí Kristić & S. Young (Eds.), Ethical exchanges in translation, adaptation and dramaturgy. (pp. 21-42). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004346376_003
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2017). [Review of the play Mitleid. Der Geschichte des Maschinengewehrs (Compassion: The history of the machine gun)]. Theatre Journal, 69(3), 427-429. doi: 10.1353/tj.2017.0053
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S., & O'Toole, E. (2017). Ethical exchanges in translation, adaptation and dramaturgy: A round table. Proceedings of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference: Unstable geographies, multiple theatricalities. (pp. 441-442). Retrieved from https://www.iftr.org
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2017). The performance of belonging in Be | Longing: A Verbatim Play. Proceedings of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference: Performing Belonging in the 21st Century. Retrieved from http://www.adsaconference2017.co.nz/
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2017, July). Translating a libretto: Seamus Heaney's Diary of One Who Vanished [Traduzindo um Livreto: "Diário de Um que Desapareceu", de Seamus Heaney]. Verbal presentation at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference: Unstable geographies, multiple theatricalities, São Paulo, Brazil.
2016
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2016). From exploring identity to facing the world: Drama since 1990. In M. Williams (Ed.), A history of New Zealand literature. (pp. 330-346). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2016, November). Encountering the refugee: Mitleid/Compassion: The History of the Machine gun. Verbal presentation at the Performing Precarity: Refugee Representation, Determination and Discourses: Performance of the Real Research Theme Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2016, July). Creating theatre of the real: A particular form of verbatim theatre. International UNESCO Creative Cities' Short Play Festival, Heidelberg, Germany. [Research Presentation].
Young, S. (2016, March). "We need new forms": Playful adventures from Chekhov to verbatim theatre. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].
2015
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2015). 'Speaking through another's voice' in the modern British theatre: Timberlake Wertenbaker and Martin Crimp translate Sophocles's Trachiniae. In F. Benocci & M. Sonzogni (Eds.), Translation, transnationalism, world literature: Essays in translation studies 2010-2014. (pp. 393-411). Novi Ligure, Italy: Joker.
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2015). [Review of the book Then it was now again: Selected critical writings]. Australasian Drama Studies, 66, 296-301. [Book Review].
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2015). Embodied technology in a specific verbatim theatre practice. Proceedings of the Bodies on Stage International Conference: Acting Confronted by Technologies. (pp. 87-88). Retrieved from http://effetsdepresence.uqam.ca/activites/colloque-2015.html#abstracts
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2015, June). The i-Pod method: Verbatim theatre techniques from Dunedin, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference: Revisiting The Players Passion: The Science(s) of Acting in 2015, Sydney, Australia.
Performance
Young, S. (co-director), & Roberts, M. (designer) (2015, 21 August-14 November). The Keys are in the Margarine: A Verbatim Play About Dementia: New Zealand Tour, Herald Theatre, Meteor Theatre, Repertory Theatre, The Playhouse, Lake Wanaka Centre, Community Hall, Fortune Theatre, BATS, Auckland, Hamilton, Invercargill, Timaru, Wanaka, Alexandra, Dunedin, Wellington, New Zealand. [Performance].
Young, S. (co-director), Halba, H. (co-director), & Roberts, M. (designer, lighting & sound operator) (2015, 15 September-21 November). Be | Longing: A Verbatim Play: New Zealand Tour, Repertory Theatre, The Playhouse, Lake Wanaka Centre, Community Hall, Fortune Theatre, BATS, Invercargill, Timaru, Wanaka, Alexandra, Dunedin, Wellington, New Zealand. [Performance].
2014
Chapter in Book - Research
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2014). Theatre as an artistic intervention in post-trauma situations: Hush: A verbatim play about family violence. In H. Barnes & M.-H. Coetzee (Eds.), Applied drama/theatre as social intervention in conflict and post-conflict contexts. (pp. 103-116). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2014). Verbatim or not? Combining fabrication with testimony in the dramaturgy of fact-based theatre. Proceedings of the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR) World Congress: Theatre & Stratification. [USB Memory Stick], (pp. 663). [Abstract]
Performance
Diver, C. (writer, director, performer), Lawless, S. (writer), Young, S. (writer, director), Adams, C. (performer), Kewene, F. (performer), & Roberts, M. (designer) (2014, 19-29 June). The Keys are in the Margarine: A Verbatim Play About Dementia (19-29 June), Fortune Theatre Studio, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Creative Work
Halba, H., Young, S., Diver, C., Newlands, E., O'Connor, S., & Still, D. (2014). Hush: A verbatim play about family violence. In H. Barnes & M.-H. Coetzee (Eds.), Applied drama/theatre as social intervention in conflict and post-conflict contexts (pp. 117-154). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars. [Play].
2013
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2013). 'Formless', 'pretentious', 'hideous and revolting': Non-Chekhov Russian and Soviet drama on the British stage. In R. Beasley & P. R. Bullock (Eds.), Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: From melodrama to modernism. (pp. 87-112). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660865.003.0006
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2013). [Review of the play The Master and the Margarita adapted by Simon McBurney, Edward Kemp]. Theatre Journal, 65(4), 572-574. doi: 10.1353/tj.2013.0124
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2013). Making verbatim theatre: Processes of mediation in Hush: A verbatim play about family violence. In L. Kempf & T. Moguilevskaia (Eds.), Le théâtre neo-documentaire résurgence ou réinvention? (pp. 171-180). Paris, France: PUN: Editions Universitaires de Lorraine. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2013, July). A double re-routing: Complicité stages The Master and the Margarita. Verbal presentation at the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR) Conference: Re-Routing Performance, Barcelona, Spain.
2012
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2012). [Review of the book Stanislavsky: A life in letters]. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 46, 133-135. [Book Review].
Young, S. (2012). London Road [Review]. Theatre Journal, 64(1), 101-102. doi: 10.1353/tj.2012.0026
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2012). A verbatim dráma színrevitelének egy lehetséges módja Új-Zélandon [An approach to staging verbatim theatre in New Zealand]. Ujrahasznosított Valóság a Színpadon [Proceedings of Recycling Reality on Stage: New Documentary Drama and Theatre in East-Central Europe]. (pp. 12-13). Retrieved from http://www.szinhaz.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36532:ujrahasznositott-valosag-a-szinpadon-melleklet&catid=73:2012-november&Itemid=7
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S., & Halba, H. (2012, July). Mediating real people and their stories in verbatim theatre. Verbal presentation at the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR) Annual Conference: Mediating Performance, Santiago, Chile.
Performance
Young, S. (co-director), Halba, H. (co-director), & Roberts, M. (designer, lighting & sound operator) (2012, 1-3, 7-10 March). Be | Longing: A verbatim play, Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Young, S. (co-director, co-writer), Halba, H. (co-director, co-writer), & Roberts, M. (designer, lighting & sound operator) (2012, 22-23 February, 1-3, 7-10 March). Be | Longing: A verbatim play, premiered at the New Performance Festival (22-23 February, 1-3, 7-10 March), Aotea Centre, Allen Hall Theatre, Auckland, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Creative Work
Halba, H., O'Connor, S., & Young, S. (2012). Be | Longing: A verbatim play, premiered at the New Performance Festival, Auckland, New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Theatre Studies, University of Otago & Talking House. [Play].
2011
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2011). Komisarjevsky's staging of non-Chekhov Russian drama in Britain. Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association (ANZSA) Conference: Translations/Transitions. Retrieved from http://www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/seminars_conf.shtml
Young, S., & Halba, H. (2011). Stories of trauma, stories of hope: Hush, a verbatim play about family violence. Proceedings of the 36th Australasian Universities Languages & Literature Association (AULLA) Congress. Retrieved from http://conference2011.aulla.com.au/pages/program.php
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S., & Halba, H. (2011, December). Remodelling reality: An approach to staging verbatim theatre. Verbal presentation at the Recycling Reality Conference: Documentary Theatre and Dramaturgy in East-Central Europe, Budapest, Hungary.
Performance
Newlands, E. (performer, researcher & writer), O'Connor, S. (performer, researcher & writer), Halba, H. (performer, researcher & writer), Shaw Bennett, N. (performer), Young, S. (director, researcher, writer & stage manager), & Roberts, M. (designer & lighting operator) (2011, 28 February-5 March). Hush, Fortune Theatre Studio, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2010
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Young, S. (2010). Inside the enigma [Review of the book The possessed: Adventures with Russian books and the people who read them]. New Zealand Listener, (24-30 July), 39.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2010, December). ‘Speaking through another's voice’ in the Modern British Theatre: Timberlake Wertenbaker and Martin Crimp translate Sophocles' Trachiniae. Verbal presentation at the International Literacy Translation Conference: Writing Past Each Other? Literary Translation and Community, Wellington, New Zealand.
Halba, H., & Young, S. (2010, September). Acting and embodiment: Rehearsal and performance strategies in 'Hush: A Documentary Play on Family Violence'. Keynote presentation at the Acting with Facts: Performing the Real on Stage and Screen: 1990-2010 Conference, Reading, UK.
Performance
Newlands, E. (performer, researcher & writer), O'Connor, S. (performer, researcher & writer), Halba, H. (performer, researcher & writer), Shaw Bennett, N. (performer), Young, S. (director, researcher, writer & stage manager), & Roberts, M. (designer & lighting operator) (2010, 22-27 November). Hush, Maidment Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand.
Shaw Bennett, N. (performer), Young, S. (director), & Roberts, M. (design) (2010, 25-27 February). My Name is Rachel Corrie, taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2009
Chapter in Book - Other
Young, S. (2009). A blind spot: Chekhov's deepest horizons [Reprint from Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 2007, 21(2), 65-78]. In H. Bloom (Ed.), Anton Chekhov. (New ed.) (pp. 153-167). New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism.
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., & Te Puea Hansen, M.-L. (2009). A dramatic hijacking: Arthur Millerising Haruru Mai at the Auckland Theatre Company. Australasian Drama Studies, 55, 30-43.
Young, S. (2009). Making the 'unstageable' stageable: English rewritings of Chekhov's first play. Modern Drama, 52(3), 325-350. doi: 10.3138/md.52.3.325
Young, S. (2009). Playing with documentary theatre: Aalst and Taking care of baby. New Theatre Quarterly, 25(1), 72-87.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S., & Halba, H. (2009). Breaking the silence: Hush: A documentary theatre play on family violence. In M. H. Serôdio & et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Federation of Theatre Research Conference: Silent Voices, Forbidden Love: Censorship and Performance. IFTR. Retrieved from http://firt2009lisboa.org/firt/poster/poster.html
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2009, June). “Avert your eyes and hold your noses”: Non-Chekhovian Russian and Soviet drama on the British stage, 1900-1940. Verbal presentation at the Russia in Britain, 1880-1940 Conference: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda, London, UK.
Performance
Young, S. (translator), Halba, H. (performer), & Roberts, M. (lighting designer) (2009, 7-8 May). The Proposal, by Anton Chekhov, Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Newlands, E. (performer, researcher & writer), O'Connor, S. (performer, researcher & writer), Halba, H. (performer, researcher & writer), Shaw Bennett, N. (performer), Young, S. (director, researcher, writer & stage manager), & Roberts, M. (designer & lighting operator) (2009, 12-22 March). Hush, Mary Hopewell Theatre, College of Education, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2008
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2008). [Review of the plays The cherry orchard, Uncle Vanya, Three sisters, and The seagull]. Theatre Journal, 60(1), 129-132.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2008, November). Staging the 'unstageable': British rewritings of Chekhov's first play. Verbal presentation at the University of Otago Russian Studies Research Cluster Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2007
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2007). Masque(e)rades of masculinity: Cross-dressing women on the New Zealand stage. In M. Maufort & D. O’Donnell (Eds.), Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand theatre and drama in an age of transition. (pp. 163-181). Brussels, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
Young, S. (2007). New Zealand: 1870-1960. In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 960-961). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). New Zealand: 1960-1980. In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 961-962). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). New Zealand: 1980-present. In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 962-963). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Feminist drama. In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 964). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Mason, Bruce (1921-1982). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 875). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Lord, Robert (1945-1992). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 1). (pp. 834). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Thompson, Mervyn (1936-1992). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 1353). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Hall, Roger (1939-). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 1). (pp. 578). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). McGee, Greg (1950-). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 882-883). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Renée (1929-). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 2). (pp. 1131-1132). New York: Columbia University Press.
Young, S. (2007). Geary, David (1963-). In G. H. Cody & E. Sprinchorn (Eds.), The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (Vol. 1). (pp. 511-512). New York: Columbia University Press.
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2007). Playing (with) Chekhov in New Zealand: Vanya on Shortland St. Landfall, 213, 170-178.
Young, S. (2007). A blind spot: Chekhov's deepest horizons. Journal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, XXI(2), 65-78.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2007, March-April). Making the 'unstageable' stageable: English versions of Checkhov's Platonov. Verbal presentation at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Performance
Young, S. (translator) (2007, 28 April-2 June). Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, directed by Susan Wilson, Circa Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand.
2006
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2006). [Review of The Pickle King, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker]. Theatre Journal, 58(3), 491-495.
Young, S. (2006). [Review of Shakespeare and Chekhov in performance and reception: Theatrical events and their audiences]. Modern Drama, XLIX(I), 127-129.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Young, S. (2006). ″A mist of loveliness″: The role of translation in shaping and attempting to reshape the British Chekhov. In D. Walton, H. Liu & S. Ferner (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth National Conference of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters. (pp. 28-42). Auckland, New Zealand: NZSTI. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2006, August). The role of translation in shaping and attempting to re-shape the British Chekhov. Verbal presentation at the International Federation for Theatre Research 15th World Congress, Helsinki, Finland.
Young, S. (2006, August). Shifting paradigms: Intercultural negotiations in the drama and theatre of Aotearoa New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the International Federation for Theatre Research 15th World Congress, Helsinki, Finland.
Young, S. (2006, September). The relationship between the writer and the director in the contemporary British theatre. Verbal presentation at the Australian Theatre Directors' Conference, Canberra, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.directorsconference.com/content/view/12/26/1/2/#young
Young, S. (2006, November-December). A dramatic re-assemblage: Arthur Millerizing Haruru Mai at the Auckland Theatre Company. Verbal presentation at the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformations Research Network, Dunedin, New Zealand.
