Walker Reader

Misha Hadar

Misha Hadar is a PhD student of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. Wandering between literature and philosophy studies during his BA in Tel-Aviv, he found himself an activist, middle-school theatre teacher, and Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner working with Israeli and Palestinian youth in Jaffa. Having moved to the US to continue his studies, he thinks and writes about migration, borders, performance, and historiography.

Performing Arts

By Alina Volobuyeva &
Misha Hadar

Forced Entertainment: Always in Touch with the Present

Alina Volobuyeva and Misha Hadar explore the “immediate and inherently political” nature of Forced Entertainment’s experimental performance work over the past 30 years within the context of the cultural and political climate of Great Britain.

Performing Arts

By Misha Hadar

Putting Real People on Stage or: 600 Highwaymen and a Brief History of Participatory Theater

“We might want to think about The Fever through the choices that it makes in conducting the experience: how it departs from our expectations of how performers perform and audiences spectate, and what it develops instead,” writes theater scholar Misha Hadar in his contextualization of 600 Highwaymen’s upcoming performance within the history of participatory theater.