Drama: Recent submissions
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Authenticity and Representation: Council Estate Plays at the Royal Court
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 7 May 2014)Council estates, otherwise known as British social housing estates, have been subject to media scrutiny since their inception, and widespread criticism of social housing remains a prominent feature of British Welfare State ... -
A Place for opportunity: The Block, representing the Council Estate in a youth theatre setting
(Intellect, 11 January 2012)This article explores issues surrounding the representation of contested place by looking at the links between the Council Estate and social well-being in a specific project. The National Youth Theatre's The Block, was a ... -
Ruin Lust and the Council Estate
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 23 June 2015)Arinze Kene's domestic drama, God's Property (Soho Theatre 2013), is set on a council estate in Deptford, South East London in 1982. The play focusses on the aftermath of longstanding racial tensions in the area that led ... -
The council estate: representation, space and the potential for performance
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 26 August 2011)The image of the archetypal housing estate is often used in popular representation, from documentary and television to music video, to symbolise the urban ‘grit’ of contemporary inner-city life. In the theatre, urban ... -
To Be Re-Bitten and to Re-Become: examining repeated embodied acts in ritual performance
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1 October 2015)This article will examine the use of repetition through two ritual performance contexts: the rimorso repetition of the ritual of tarantism in Salento, Southern Italy, and the deity yoga practice incorporating mudras, mantras ...