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Hearing the Unhearable: The Representation of Women Who Kill Children
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2013-09-24)Feminist theory has discussed the silencing and underrepresentation of women's voices in such areas as politics, law, culture and psychoanalysis. Through the identification of silences and absences, and a noting of the ... -
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 ... -
How Does Performance Disrupt Institutional Spaces?
(Methuen Drama, 2019-03-21)Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances ... -
'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 ... -
Impossible Things: The Life Art of Anne Bean in the 1970s
(Intellect (UK), 2018-09-15)Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘Kind of Goya-esque or Something’: Charles Ray’s Early Works
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Labor in Contemporary Shakespeare Performance
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Loving Memory: Anamnesis and Hypomnesis
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2017-03-16)Possible relations between libraries and death, books and gravestones, are manifold. One may think, for example, of relations between the spirit and the letter (soul and body, the material and the immaterial), not least ...