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What traditional training has not considered
No full textThrough a series of smaller interventions and provocations, this chapter looks to where traditional drama school training is not focused. In exploratory discussion, several offers and provocations are made, challenging the sector to look more holistically at what is being offered, why, who for and who by
Voice
No full textThis chapter explores what the Black voice is and how it can be encouraged and nurtured. In exploring language and voice production, there is discussion of how the Black voice has, and does, manifest and why knowledge of that matters. It offers practical exercises which can be done in classes or at home, focused on key facets of the voice work
Staging Germanness in Contemporary British Theatre
No full textIn the contemporary British context, German theatrical culture appears simultaneously familiar and shocking. Critics in the United Kingdom seem to both fetishize and despise the German theatrical scene. It is experimental, innovative, well-funded, and free from commercial pressures, whilst also indulgent, auteur-driven ‘directors’ theatre’. It draws practitioners from the UK seeking to learn from fellow theatre-makers in Germany, and yet the reception of these practitioners’ work in Britain can be mixed or, at worst, hostile. Arguing that Anglo-German theatre performed in the UK is fraught with artistic, aesthetic, and critical tensions, Joseph Prestwich examines theatrical performance and institutional practice to ask how Germanness is constructed within the UK in the contemporary context. Drawing on the concepts of institutional dramaturgy and cultural capital, he offers a timely consideration of the perceived value and effects of Anglo-German theatre in the post-Brexit context
Introduction
No full text'It is our intention that the case studies in this book will highlight new possibilities for applied theatre to understand and answer back to the specific challenges of practice aiming to create space for change with young people.
The Verbatim Formula: Incentivising Change in the Twenty-First-Century Care System?
No full text'This chapter is a reflection on a participatory practice research project,
‘The Verbatim Formula’ (TVF) started in 2015'
Witnessing Change and Youth Agency
No full textAn outline and application of 'shared understandings and possibilities from different fields of thought to articulate possible applications of witnessing change as a framework for applied theatre practice.
Developing the actor trainer: welcome, trust, and critical exchange
No full textA reflection on the discourses that impact the well-being of the actor and the teacher
Abolish the Stage: Reflecting on Race and Theatre in Tambo and Bones
No full textThis long review of Matthew Xia's production of Dave Harris' bTambo and Bones argues that we should abolish the western stage. I observe that, by repeatedly placing frames around its action that it goes on to break, the play offers a fundamental critique of the interdependent development of western theatre and the technology of race. After a reading of Harris and Xia's dramaturgical critique of racialization, I propose that if Stuart Hall was right and 'race works like a language', it functions even more like a theatre, in which bodies are always being scrutinized for signs of meaning of which the audience is the ultimate arbiter. This, I argue, is the structural logic of race: signs of difference are invested with significance thanks to behavioural scripts authored by dominant racialized groups. But this is not the logic of all theatre. The essay concludes with a brief consideration of an alternative: Robert Serumaga’s twentieth-century Ugandan theatre company Renga Moi, which I offer as an example of a form of theatre-making that could be considered an aesthetic corollary to Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of abolition as 'life in rehearsal'
