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Apartheid Acting Out: Trauma, Confession and the Melancholy of Theatre in Yaël Farber's He Left Quietly
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-03-27)In 1984, Duma Kumalo was sentenced to death under the apartheid law of common purpose. He was only spared by the transitional negotiations that led to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. However, his suffering ... -
'Ageing, vulnerable and unstable: My Week with Marilyn and popular perceptions of Vivien Leigh'
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-04-01)This article will argue that My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis, 2011), despite its central focus on Marilyn Monroe, offers important peripheral insights into the way in which Vivien Leigh is popularly perceived as neurotic ... -
Performance and Value: The Work of Theatre in Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01-05)That theatre is a place of work seems beyond debate. But what kind of workplace is it? And under what conditions does theatre conform to a capitalist production process? At first glance these questions may seem obviously, ... -
Hard Labour and Punitive Welfare: The Unemployed Body at Work in Participatory Performance.
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-01-30)This article addresses the performance of labour in participatory arts projects and considers the implications of such activity on perceptions of the unemployed in the UK. Utilising a combination of biopolitical and ... -
Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice (second edition) edited by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton and Critical Perspectives on Applied Theory edited by Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-03-16)
