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Being and Pub: Phenomenology of pub meeting as performance
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)Despite the politically oppressive period of Normalization that followed the Prague Spring in the late 1960s and 1970s in Czechoslovakia, performance artists had to find a way of creating despite the heavy policing of ... -
'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love: Staging Relational Care with Lois Weaver and Split Britches
(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 ... -
Chronology of British Theatre Since 1945
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)A chronology of theatre events and public events in Britain from 1945-2022. -
The Housing Crisis, Art, and Performance
The 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 ... -
The Fringe: The Rise and Fall of Radical Alternative Theatre
(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 ... -
International Theatre Festivals in the UK: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Model Neo-liberal Market
(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 ... -
Subsidised Theatre: Strength, Elitism, Metropolitanism, Racism
(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 ... -
Introduction
(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 ... -
In Service to Capital: Theatre and Marxist Cultural Theory
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-02-28)This book shows the importance of Marxist approaches to literature that reach beyond simply demonstrating the revolutionary potential or the political consciousness of a 19th-century-style industrial working class. -
Marxist Keywords for Performance
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Theatrical Proletation
(Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021-01-14)A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. -
Queering Time, Ageing, and Relationships with Split Britches
This 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 ... -
Relative Values: apreendendo o valor da cultura
(Itau Cultural, 2022-09-12)O artigo apresenta a relative values, metodologia proposta pelo People’s Palace Projects, centro de pesquisa em artes com sede em Londres. Explicitam-se a relação entre os objetivos do trabalho e a importância do seu caráter ... -
‘This is My Life’
(2021-10-03)