Drama
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of Drama, part of the College of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Aspirational circus glamour: rethinking the circus grotesque through female aerialists of the interwar period
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)In this article, the author challenges the designation of circus and circus disciplines, including aerial performance, as grotesque (Bakhtin 1984; Russo 1994). The term ‘glamour’ was used in interwar newspaper reports and ... -
Playing to type: Casting, ‘industry’ and ‘invisible training’ in the National Youth Theatre’s ‘Playing Up 2’
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)Alongside its core actor and stage technician training activities, the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain runs a number of additional training programmes, targeting specific ‘marginalised’ groups. These are usually ... -
A Diphonic Editorial: Voicing Belonging: Traditional Singing in a Globalized World
(Intellect, 2017)Konstantinos Thomaidis (KT): Why conduct scholarly and artistic research on traditional singing in the global age? Given the dominance of new communication technologies and the unprecedented commodification of world cultures, ... -
The Arts Britain still Ignores?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-04-08)This Note offers a provocation surrounding questions of diversity in British theatre today. It is now 40 years since the publication of Naseem Khan’s seminal report The Arts Britain Ignores which charted the range of arts ... -
Re-defining the ‘contact zone’: Translation, transformation and the space in-between
(Intellect, 2016-12-01)This article explores the space ‘in-between’ in intercultural arts practice. Drawing on my engagement as an academic participant in the ArtsCross/Danscross project, I unpack Mary Louise Pratt’s term ‘contact zone’. Pratt ... -
Performing Moretonhampstead: rurality, participation and cultural value
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-01-09)This paper is based on a multi-sited ethnography of subjects engaged in performance-based participation – amateur theatre, community-based theatre and Carnival – in the market town of Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor in the ... -
The vocal body
(Triarchy Press, 2013)In current understandings of voicing, especially in long-standing training formulae for actors and singers, the body is considered as a supporting mechanism. Good, healthy and aesthetically pleasing voice is produced when ... -
Musicianship above all? New perspectives on training towards integrated bel canto performance
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)In this chapter I address the implications of mono-disciplinary or disciplinary-bound approaches for the training of opera singers. Rather than fully unpacking details of technique or proposing specific exercises and ... -
The re-vocalization of logos? Thinking, doing and disseminating voice
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Verbatim practices, the acoustics of training, and giving voice: a voice studies afterthought
(Theatre, Dance and Performance Training editorial team, 2016-05)Blog article -
‘The voice is the guide to the experience as well as the experience itself’: An interview with non zero one
(Intellect, 2016-01-01)Since 2009, non zero one – a London-based collective of artists with a background and interest in theatre but working across media and performance disciplines – has devised a series of unexpected, challenging but also ... -
Voice in devising/devising through voice: A conversation with Mikhail Karikis, Elaine Mitchener and Jessica Walker
(Intellect, 2016-05-01)How is voice used in devising practices? What is the interplay between structure, freedom and improvisation in such compositional practices? In what ways is voice conceived and practised as material? In providing answers ... -
The revocalization of logos? Thinking, doing and disseminating voice
(Intellect, 2014-03-01)As a specific object of interest for philosophy, the human voice is grasped within a system of signification that subordinates speech to the concept. It is in the traditional dualism between the vocal/aural and the ... -
Singing From Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theatre of Musicality
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Wlodzimierz Staniewski, director of the Polish Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice, considers directing as a praxis pertaining to the field of musical composition. His pieces have been theorised as either “ethno-oratoria” ... -
Undesigning sound: AdriftPM’s Portable Soundscapes
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-10)In July 2015, Adrift Performance Makers developed the project Portable Soundscapes: An Acoustic Travelogue, travelling down from Portsmouth, UK, to Thessaloniki, Greece, through Paris, Munich, Zagreb, and Belgrade. ...