Browsing School of English and Drama by Author "Harvie, J"
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Boom! Adversarial Ageism, Chrononormativity, and the Anthropocene
HARVIE, JBC (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-10-10)This article argues that emerging ‘chrononormatives’ of ‘generational warfare’ and ‘ageing crisis’ are culturally damaging and importantly addressed by Split Britches’s Ruff (2013) and Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone (2016), ... -
Chronology of British Theatre Since 1945
Harvie, J; Rebellato, D (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)A chronology of theatre events and public events in Britain from 1945-2022. -
Feminism, audience interaction, and performer authority 1
Harvie, J (2019-01-01)© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Doris Kolesch, Theresa Schütz, Sophie Nikoleit; individual chapters, the contributors. In this chapter, the author is concerned with democracy and inequality, and how theatre and ... -
Feminisms Now
Gorman, S; Harris, G; Harvie, J (2018-10-17) -
The Fringe: The Rise and Fall of Radical Alternative Theatre
Harvie, J; Rebellato, D (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)The various names given to the new theatre movement that emerged in the 1960s to challenge both the West End and the new subsidised theatre sector include ‘fringe’, ‘alternative’, and ‘underground’; each offers different ... -
Funding, philanthropy, structural inequality and decline in England’s theatre ecology
Harvie, J (2015-01-01) -
The Housing Crisis, Art, and Performance
Harvie, JThe work I look at here responds particularly to being part of a new class known as Generation Rent. Facing what critic Lauren Berlant has influentially termed the ‘cruel optimism’ of desiring something which actually ... -
'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love: Staging Relational Care with Lois Weaver and Split Britches
Harvie, J (Routledge Companions, 2022-08-01)Drawing on the five phases of care identified by Joan C. Tronto and two long interviews with Split Britches co-director Lois Weaver, this chapter argues that Weaver is an exemplary theatrical practitioner of the many ... -
International Theatre Festivals in the UK: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Model Neo-liberal Market
Harvie, J (Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-30)This chapter focuses on the UK’s biggest and most internationally influential festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (EFF), analyzing its benefits and risks, particularly for its artists and especially as an unregulated ... -
Introduction
Harvie, J; Rebellato, D (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)British theatre’s post-war cultural impact would be hard to deny, having produced generations of actors, writers, directors, and designers who have populated the world’s stages and screens. This vitality has often been ... -
"A Multi-modal and Durational Praxis of Decolonization": Performance studies in Canada
Harvie, J (University of Toronto Press, 2018-10-30)This review of Performance Studies in Canada edited by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer argues that its most important contributions are the arguments it makes for paying attention to Indigeneity and to decolonizing ... -
Queering Time, Ageing, and Relationships with Split Britches
Harvie, JThis article begins by outlining some dominant narratives that produce ageism by socially constructing older age as a time of linear decline, social dependency, social isolation, and intergenerational conflict. It then ... -
A Sense of Place: Staging Psychogeographies of the UK Housing Crisis
Harvie, J (2023) -
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis
Harvie, J (2018) -
Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London
Harvie, J (2022) -
Subsidised Theatre: Strength, Elitism, Metropolitanism, Racism
Harvie, J (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)This chapter examines the newly expanded and transformed theatre ecology enabled by the post-war rise of central government subsidy to the arts. It explores subsidy’s ambitions, achievements, and benefits, but also its ... -
Theatre: A Very Short Introduction.
Harvie, J (2016)