Drama
Recent Submissions
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This contentious storm: an ecocritical and performance history of King Lear
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-06-05)Book Review -
Introduction: Eco-Shakespeare in Performance
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"To weather a play": audiences, outdoor Shakespeares, and avant-garde nostalgia at The Willow Globe
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Imagining Arden: Audience responses to place and participation at Taking Flight Theatre Company’s As You Like It
(Participations, 2016-05-01)This article looks at audience responses to Taking Flight Theatre Company’s outdoor, promenade production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, which took place in Wales and the South West of England in July 2014. It draws on ... -
Theatre, Performance, and the Amateur Turn
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Towards a Hopeful Plurality of Democracy: An Interview on Vocal Ontology with Adriana Cavarero
(Intellect, 2018-04-01)Marking the philosopher’s seventieth anniversary as well as fifteen years since the original publication of For More than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression, this interview with Adriana Cavarero considers ... -
Taking the ferry: performing queasy affects through Irish abortion travel in Thorny Island and My Name is Saoirse
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)This article focuses on queasy affects produced at sea in two recent Irish plays that identify the ferry as the means of travelling from Ireland to the UK for an abortion: Sarah Binchy’s Thorny Island (2012) and Eva ... -
Answer the Question ‘How does nature nurture your training?’
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-10-11)This is Evelyn O'Malley's contribution to the article. The full article is available via the DOI in this record -
Aspirational circus glamour: rethinking the circus grotesque through female aerialists of the interwar period
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-11-06)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), 2018-03-14)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 ... -
Voicing Belonging: Traditional Singing in a Globalized World. A Diphonic Editorial
(Intellect, 2017-08-01)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, 2013-04-12)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
(Routledge, 2015-06-29)Book chapter -
Verbatim practices, the acoustics of training, and giving voice: a voice studies afterthought
(Theatre, Dance and Performance Training editorial team, 2016-05)Blog article