b'Editorial NoteThis is the second annual edition of The T3 Journal, a publication that runs alongside the T3 Festival. The Festival showcases practice, while the journal offers a platform for writing and visual materials. It gives an insight into the best thinking work our students do in the studio, seminar space, lecture theatre and elsewhere. It includes pieces submitted for assessment as well as original compositions, and material produced in extra-curricular work informed by the degree.Our definition of best does not necessarily refer to high marks. Rather, this is a collection of work students feel represents their most crucial insights and of which they are most proud. It represents their own opinions and conclusions, without further staff intervention. We have mirrored the process of academic journal publication with submission, selection, peer review and a high-quality printed production. The student editorial team includes students from across year groups, and both combined honours and single honours students. The writing included in this journal reflects on some of the urgent concerns of our times. Issues of identityparticularly the way that identity positions shape our perspectives and experiencesemerge as key themes across the submissions. Although this wasnt planned, it is unsurprising, given not only dramas concern with who we are, but also world events unfolding as we write, where a global pandemic rages in the wake of climate disaster, as Black people fight for equality and the right for their lives to matter equally in the eyes of the nation-state. It has not escaped our attention, nor has it escaped our students attention, that issues of inequality across race, class, gender, disability and sexuality shape our lives and the societies we live in in myriad ways. This journal evidences how the artists, performers and thinkers of the future are already proving themselves open to engaging with the challenges that it will be necessary for us to overcome in order to thrive as a speciesin harmony with other species too.We thank all of our writers and editorial team for staying committed to this project during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can be rightly proud of what you have produced. Wehopethatitdemonstrateshowimportantthethinkingworkofdramaand performance studies are to the world beyond theatre.Katie Beswick and Cathy TurnerStudent Editors:Elizabeth Brown, Thomas Ryan Gunning, Evie Hayes, Aimee Sweet, Philippa Uden, Rebecca Warner and Beth BowdenWith thanks to:Stuart Stubbs3'