This essay explores a series of issues which have emerged around the term ‘visualisation’ as a result of materials generated out of the international Lord of the Rings audience project. ‘Visualisation’ is quite widely used ...

Crime/thriller/drama action films have been a popular and commercially successful product of Hong Kong cinema. However, since the early 1990s, the Hong Kong film industry has been in decline. It has been posited that as a ...

"In this world I feel trapped. I can never make up my mind whether I want to fit in or whether I’m proud of being different. As independent and as free as I try to be, or think I am, I am relentlessly aware of being ...

An analysis of contact points between the forces of Eros and Thanatos, philosophy and speculative theatre, with particular reference to the writings of the philosophers Alphonso Lingis and Anne Dufourmantelle.

This thesis deals with methods of detection i.e. the mode of investigation employed to catch a criminal in American detective dramas on television. It divides methods of detection into the categories of ‘rational-scientific’ ...

A new Opera. Composer: Michael Berkeley Libretto: Ian McEwan, commissioned by Music Theatre Wales. A minimalist and kinetic scenographic exploration. This was a development beyond the static scene or referenced 'place' ...

Should The Merchant of Venice be staged post-Holocaust? How was Antigone (an icon of noble suffering in the Western liberal humanist tradition) received in Apartheid-riven South Africa? These are some of the questions ...

Lighting design for the theatre work 'Geneva' (Quarantine, 2003), developed within the context of Brookes' long-term collaboration with the company. Produced and presented with Northern Stage, Newcastle, in 2003.

Lighting design for the contemporary solo dance work 'Gloria Days' (Rees, M., 2007). Originally developed and presented within the Millennium Centre, Cardiff; with subsequent performances across touring dates within Europe ...