Drama: Recent submissions
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Plagiarising theory: performance and religion?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge) / Intellect, 1 February 2009)Can a book that describes itself as Theory for Religious Studies simply slip off its cover and put on a new one saying Theory for Performance Studies, and still work? Can one critical theory framework fit all humanities ... -
Watching the dead speak: the role of the audience, imagination, and belief in late-modern spiritualism
(Donner Institute, 2009)The performances of everyday experience take place in a variety of other locations, domestic and corporate, urban and rural. Moreover, the role of the audience, and the individuals within it, is not constant across all ... -
(Re)acting Medicine: applying theatre in order to develop a whole-systems approach to understanding the healing response.
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 30 September 2014)UK health and care provision is in crisis. Dominant practices, ideologies and infrastructure need to change. Our research team is investigating how performance-led research and creative practice is able to positively shape ... -
The Council Estate as Hood: SPID Theatre Company and grass-roots arts practice as cultural politics
(Palgrave MacMillan, 1 January 2016)This chapter explores how the British council estate (or 'social housing estate') serves as a national conception of the 'global hood'. It examines the work of SPID Theatre Company, based on the Kensal Rise estate in ... -
Bola Agbaje’s Off the Endz. Authentic Voices, Representing the Council Estate: Politics, Authorship and the Ethics of Representation
(Walter de Gruyter, 1 January 2014)Amongst the many socio-political concerns central to contemporary British theatre, there appears an overriding concern – in terms of the production of new plays - with the notion of ‘authenticity’ in the voice of the authors ...