Department of Drama

"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 ...

Feminisms Now

Gorman, S; Harris, G; Harvie, J (2018-10-17)

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), ...

Rev. of Staging Queer Feminisms: Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015 by Sarah French

SILVERSTONE, C (University of Toronto Press, 2018-08-17)

Making Sense of Air: Choreography and Climate in Calling Tree

WELTON, M

Dark Visions: Looking at and in Theatrical Darkness

WELTON, M

This article focuses on darkness in performance, not only as a condition for playing, immersion or imagination (as in the recent trend for “theatre in the dark”), but also as the “stuff” of vision – both its object and its ...

Dyspraxic Collaboration: Inattentivity and Retroreleventiation in Daniel Oliver and Luke Ferris’ collaborative performance art practice

OLIVER, D; Ferris, L

Mind the gap: Lawrence Hamilton and aesthetic representation

THOMASSEN, LA (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-07-06)

Weird Seance Extras (Revisited)

Oliver, D (2016-05-03)

Apartheid Acting Out: Trauma, Confession and the Melancholy of Theatre in Yaël Farber's He Left Quietly

CHARLTON, EJ (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'

BOLTON, LC

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

BOYLE, MS (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.

BARTLEY, SE (Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-01-30)

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

INCHLEY, MJ (Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-04-12)

"Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice (Second edition) edited. by Monica Prendergast and Juliana SaxtonCritical Perspectives on Applied Theory edited by Jenny Hughes and Helen Nicholson." ...

The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa

Boyle, MS (2011-12)