Austerity, Gender and Performance: Conversations with Anna Herrmann and Katherine Chandler
Drawing on interviews with Clean Break’s co-artistic director Anna Herrmann and playwright Katherine Chandler, Sarah Bartley reflects on representations of women in poverty on the UK stage.
We Need to Talk About (How We Talk About) Audiences
Kirsty Sedgman presents a commentary on Tomlin’s Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship, engaging with debates and misunderstandings between empirical and theoretical spectatorship research.
Broderick D.V. Chow, Ella Parry-Davies and Aneta Mancewicz introduce CTR’s new Interventions Postscripts initiative.
Rantin and Raving: an interview with Kieran Hurley
In this filmed conversation, David Overend thinks aloud with playwright Keiran Hurley about scales of connectivity linking theatre audiences to an aspirational political collective.
In space, nobody can hear you say you didn’t “get” it: theatre, science fiction, and genre snobbery
Ian Farnell looks at the idea of “genre snobbery” in relation to contemporary theatre engaging with science fiction. Because in space, nobody can hear you say you didn’t “get” it.
Life in Post-Totalitarian East-Central Europe and the Problems of Participation
Amy Bryzgel examines examples of participatory art in communist Eastern Europe, showing how artists in different countries deployed a range of inventive methods to subvert their surveillance states.
Safety, Risk and Speculation in the Immersive Industry
Anticipating the opening of Hartshorn – Hook and Alexander Wright’s immersive adaptation of The Wolf of Wall Street, Adam Alston explores ideas of safety, risk, and speculation in the immersive experience industry.
