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Introduction to the ‘Bruce Kirle Panel for Emerging Scholars’ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida, August 2019

An introduction to and brief commentary on the three papers presented at the ‘Bruce Kirle Panel for Emerging Scholars’ in August 2019 with emphasis on their consideration of various aspects of politics and social issues and how they deal with the plots and music of the shows they consider within varied theoretical frameworks. The shows addressed by the three authors include London Road, Hamilton and Little Shop of Horrors.