Browsing Department of Drama by Title
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'Ageing, vulnerable and unstable: My Week with Marilyn and popular perceptions of Vivien Leigh'
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-05-01)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 ... -
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 ... -
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, 2017-04-12)"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." ... -
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 ... -
Boom! Adversarial Ageism, Chrononormativity, and the Anthropocene
(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), ... -
Brecht’s Gale: Innovation and Postdramatic Theatre
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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. -
Circular Paths of Pleasure in Marco Berrettini's iFeel2
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2015-10-21)This article thinks about the connections between performance, repetition and pleasure by drawing on Lacanian theory. It examines the temporal and spatial experience of desire's perpetual unfulfillment through Marco ... -
Costume at the National Theatre: A curator’s talk
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The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa
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Critical Solace
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-09-01) -
Dark Visions: Looking at and in Theatrical Darkness
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 ... -
Dead Star Mileage: Jack Smith’s Fandom for Maria Montez
(Goldsmiths Press, 2019-12-03)Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. -
Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation
A self-described “momenteer,” James Lee Byars (1932–1997) is arguably best remembered for the extravagant, imposing, and durable sculptural works he made in the 1980s and 1990s, typically using marble, bronze, glass, or ...
