ABSTRACT
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University is an interdisciplinary endeavour operating at the intersection of theatre and international relations. It develops new work, presents global performance, establishes dynamic networks of young and established artists, and cultivates diverse community and financial partnerships. Interviews with Lab staff, archival material, and the author’s experience indicate that The Lab functions both as a symbiotic performance-politics relationship that leverages locally voiced performance to enliven global political issues and as a necessary response to a major research institution’s neoliberal formations, formations that it seeks to sidestep as much as possible, despite being imbricated within them.
