New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 52 include: Resistance and Resilience: the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg; Reinhabiting 'The Cherry Orchard': Class and History in Performing Chekhov; The Eritrea Community Based Theatre Project; Theatre of Migration and the Search for a Multicultural Aesthetic: Twenty Years of Tara Arts; Solo Black Performance before the Civil War: Mrs Stowe, Mrs Webb, and 'The Christian Slave'; Contemporary Theatre in Vietnam: Open Door or Pandora's Box?