Introducing Maria Shevtsova

This is the introduction by the guest convenor, Rui Pina Coelho, of this Scholar in Focus section on Prof. Em. Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), an esteemed and internationally acclaimed scholar, widely celebrated for her pioneering research on contemporary European theatre directors and companies, Russian theatre, the epistemology of mise-en-scène, and for laying the foundations of the innovative field of the sociology of theatre.