This volume provides students and artists with a deeper understanding of a director and playwright Richard Maxwell's work, aesthetic philosophy, and process for creating theater.
Editor: Dan Rebellato and Graham Eatough | Reference: P2706 | ISBN: 9781849430876 | Type: Publication
Suspect Culture was Scotland’s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009. This book surveys the company’s history and ideas and includes an overview of the Company by David Greig; co-founder, writer, dramaturg and sometime actor with Suspect Culture.
This interview explores connections within editor Bonnie Marranca’s work and considers the way in which it has developed in conversation with artists in and around New York.
Performance text. In Nights in this City, Forced Entertainment takes its audience on a coach tour of various locations in Sheffield. The performance consisted of commentary by two consecutive guides, a series of staged interventions in the city streets and other unpredictable events. Small booklet in large folder.
Artist/Author: Mat Fraser | Reference: D1708 | Type: DVD
Documentation of pieces created 1999 – 2011: Wrong Bodies, Sealo the Sealboy, Kiss, Everything You Wanted to Know about Access in the City, Talidomida boy, Thalidomide!! A Musical, The Arms Striptease, Beauty and the Beast, No Retreat, No Surrender, and The Incurables of England, Gawd Bless ‘Em Down to Hell,
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Artist/Author: Rebecca Brown | Reference: A0406 | Type: Article
Article about a personal tribute Tadeusz Kantor, and a fascinating introduction to some of the theatrical ideas of one of the twentieth century’s leading theatre directors.
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: A0311 | Type: Article
Engaging a series of critical models, this article examines the place of the ‘exotic’ in thinking about sexual and racial difference, as a means of thinking difficult or volatile modes of cultural practice. As such, it stages a confrontation between ‘exotic ritual’ and ‘apocalyptic tone’, to challenge conventions about scholarly practice and find new ways of examining uncomfortable spaces and modes of working.
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine | Reference: P1169 | ISBN: 978-0954604040 | Type: Publication
A collection of case studies, interviews and essays which explores the ways in which contemporary theatre is changing through new relationship between mainstream venues and experimental practices. 108 pages, 16 black and white photographs, 12cm x 16.5cm. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).