Introduction -- The drama and theatre of Oceania: an overview -- Remembering Captain Cook: restaging early cross-cultural encounters -- Revisiting "Tino Rangatiratanga in action": Māori theatrical interpretations of the New Zealand wars -- Re-enacting Hawaiʻi's history in the plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl -- Killing the monster: reenvisioning the 1987 coups on the Fiji stage -- Epilogue.