Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This has led to an astonishing range of performance styles, ...

Lighting design for the large-scale ensemble theatre work 'Grace' (Quarantine, 2005), developed within the context of Brookes' long-term collaboration with the company. Produced and presented within Contact, Manchester, in 2005.

Object work, for gallery exhibition - developed within the wider research framework of the project 'one thing leads to another' - and produced and placed as part of an ongoing series of small, ephemeral, and context-specific ...

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the “most important of all arts” for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably with the work of ...

Howard Barker’s theatre is uniquely alluring and startlingly original, bringing together classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and transgressive eroticism, in a form and experience Barker terms Theatre of Catastrophe. ...

Audience research, after a promising period during which some crucial advances were made, seems to be in decline in several ways, yet its tasks remain as important as ever. This article, originally a presentation at the ...

This paper examines the background and underlying assumptions involved in a public debate between Dr Kate Roberts and Dr Thomas Parry which was conducted in the columns of the Genedl newspaper in the early nineteen thirties. ...

'In Comes I' is about performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions in the agricultural landscape of eastern ...

This is the first attempt to engage with the repertoire of Music Theatre with the same approach that I take to my work with Quarantine. Stepping over the orchestra pit and seeking to develop a form that can allow the ...