Editorial

This editorial introduces a collection of articles exploring themes of care, ethics and public engagement in theatre and performance. Drawing on Rebecca Tadman’s positioning of care as a practical and strategic response to systemic inequalities, the editorial frames the featured articles as examinations of how care and ethics operate across diverse academic, national and cultural settings. The pieces discuss topics such as witnessing in refugee theatre, gender performance in Nigerian theatre, bodily resistance in theatrical activism, emotional labour strategies for actors and the cultural genesis of children’s musicals in Ukraine. The editorial highlights how these works consider the relationship between private experience and public discourse, and the implications for how we think about the ethics of theatre and performance.