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Acting Like Children was a research event held in 2011 examining approaches to the performance of child characters by adult artists, involving Polka Theatre, Action Transport Theatre, Travelling Light, Early Years Theatre expert Jo Belloli, director Sally Cookson, Vice Chair of Action for Children’s...

This series of performances (2019-2020) brings together Brian Lobel's research in one-to-one performance making and notions of intimacy, using the simple act of communal television watching. Based on Brian's 2015-2018 performance, You Have to Forgive Me, You Have to Forgive Me, You Have to Forgive M...

Archival material pertaining to Clive Barker is interrogated to assess Barker's legacy in the future tense by arguing that the concept of the Fun Palace can hack the neoliberal politics of the 2012 Olympic legacy.

This paper builds on my on-going research into the playwright’s role within the collaborative devising process, which includes questioning traditional pedagogical approaches to writing for the stage. In addition, it references the practical experience of developing and teaching modules focused on th...

As a plastic, immaterial medium, the use of light on stage is challenging: how to experiment, test, develop and communicate lighting intentions in advance of the performance? How, in other words, to model light? And for lighting practitioners, how to acquire, hone and reinvent techniques and a desig...