Drama: Recent submissions
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A Postcolonial Tempest in Florianopolis
(Intellect, 1 April 2002)This article seeks to give an account of some of the work that took place during an academic link between the University of Exeter and Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) in Florianopolis, Brazil in 1999 and 2000. The ... -
Apocalipse 1,11 in São Paulo: Aesthetic Vertigo or Exploitation?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 27 November 2002)Performed in an abandoned prison, Apocalipse I, II re-enacts a 1992 massacre at São Paulo's Carandiru prison where 111 prisoners were shot by the military police. But the inclusion of a live sex show and gratuitous violence ... -
British Radio Dramaturgy and the Effects of the New Conservatism
(Cambridge University Press, 1 February 2004)This essay, which is informed by the author's own practice as a playwright working in the medium of radio drama, looks at some effects of the enforced merger of radio with TV drama to create a ‘bi-media’ department at the ... -
Singing actors and dancing singers: Oscillations of genre, physical and vocal codes in two contemporary adaptations of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
(Intellect, 1 August 2007)This article looks at two recent and widely recognized productions of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (by choreographer Sasha Waltz, Berlin 2005, and theatre-director Sebastian Nübling, Basel 2006) and discusses three main ... -
Bending gender and acting theory: Performing essays by Goethe and Cocteau on the theatrical benefits of cross-dressing
(Intellect, 1 August 2006)In this article the author investigates Johann Wolfgang Goethe's and Jean Cocteau's strikingly interrelated essays on acts of female impersonation and the implications on theatre theory that both emphatically point out. ...