Drama: Recent submissions
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Learning to write spaces
(Routledge, 27 June 2013)It is frequently suggested to new playwrights that you ‘have to know the rules in order to break them’. This suggestion relies on the idea that theatre audiences share certain expectations of how language works in the ... -
Placebos, caring and healing in rheumatology
(Mosby, 24 June 2014)Chronic rheumatic diseases are complex and occur in different and changing social and cultural contexts. Linear cause and effect models may not be appropriate for their explanation or management. The placebo response ... -
Contra mortem, petimus scientiam: pain, tragedy, death and medicine in BLOK/EKO
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1 November 2012)This article uses Howard Barker's play BLOK/EKO as a poetic lens through which to explore questions of pain in the twenty-first century. Like the play, it asks could poetry replace medicine? To do this it interrogates one ... -
Introduction: Special Edition of Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2012, 32(3)
(Routledge, 1 September 2012)An introduction to the special edition of Studies in Theatre & Performance Volume 32 part 3 -
'And the pain just disappeared into insignificance': The healing response in Lourdes - performance, psychology and caring.
(Taylor & Francis, 22 June 2014)Three academic/practitioners from different disciplines (performance, medicine and psychology) describe the ways in which observing, and importantly, participating in the healing rituals of the French pilgrimage site of ...