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Something Other Live: On Elasticity
Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events which act as companions to the themed Chapters published by Something Other collective.
Audio recordning of a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to launch and celebrate Something Other’s thirteenth chapter, On Elasticity: a collection of audio, video and written works and other somethings that consider stretch, contraction, tension and Spring.
The line-up will included works finished and just beginning as well as new experiments from contributors including Karen Christopher, Rhiannon Armstrong, Susan Rudy, Alexandra Baybutt, Helen Savage, Victoria Gray and Sam Williams.
The event was be hosted by Diana Damian Martin and Maddy Costa at LADA on Monday 14 July, 2025.
Mishandled Archive: Book Launch and Celebration
An online event to celebrate the launch of artist and writer Tara Fatehi Irani’s new book Mishandled Archive, published by LADA. Hosted by Rachel Mars, the event features an excerpt from Tara’s performance of Mishandled Archive with Pouya Ehsaei, a performative presentation by Diana Damian Martin, Mary Paterson, Jemima Yong, Maddy Costa and Holly Revell and special appearances by Giulia Palladini and Joe Kelleher.
Performance in an Age of Precarity
An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking, writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics, producers, dramaturgs, makers, archivists and more.
Challenging Archives: An encounter with Franco B
This book was produced as part of ‘Challenging Archives’, at. the University of Bristol Theatre Collection: a Wellcome funded project to catalogue and conserve the archive of the artist Franco B. Maddy Costa and Mary Paterson were writers in residence for the project from 2018-2020.
Mishandled Archive
Mishandled Archive offers a way of imagining, creating and disseminating an archive.
Theatre Blogging: the emergence of critical culture
Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.
Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation
Analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.
None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition
Charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
How We Talk About The Work Is The Work Performing critical writing
This article gives examples of a number of initiatives by individual writers, artist collectives, and festivals that test forms of critical writing that are as experimental as the practices to which they relate.
Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes
Features 16 commissioned contributions from scholars, arts journalists and bloggers, as well as a small selection of innovative critical practice, sharing perspectives on relevant historical, theoretical and political contexts influencing the development of the discipline, as well as specific aspects of the contemporary practices and genres of theatre criticism.
BILLINGTRON 5000
A fanzine about the life and works of Michael Billington.
Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice
‘Performing Site-Specific Theatre turns a critical eye to the form of site-specific theatre, investigating the nature of the relationship between ‘site’ and ‘performance’. Contributors: Joanne Thompkins, Anna Birch, Michael McKinnie, Susan Bennett, Julie Sanders, Jane Collins, John Webster, Mike Pearson, Kathleen Irwin, Susan Haedicke, Lesley Ferris, Louise Owen, Keren Zaiontz, Bruce Barton, Richard Windeyer, Helen Iball, Sophie Nield
