Drama Research Volume 15 - NATIONAL DRAMA

Drama Research Volume 15

ISSN 2040-2228
April 2024

Editorial

Volume 15 Editorial

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Drama Research!

The articles in this issue describe three research projects, each located in a different genre of theatre: youth theatre, professional theatre, and site-specific community drama.

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Volume 15 Editorial

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Drama Research!

The articles in this issue describe three research projects, each located in a different genre of theatre: youth theatre, professional theatre, and site-specific community drama.

Read More »

Articles

Book Reviews

Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art

This excellent book fills a gap that has long existed in academic study of British grass roots arts: a conspectus that records the history of the community arts movement in the UK, locates it in the communities and the times when it was made, and explores its significance as a democratising force in British culture.

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Insights in Applied Theatre: the early days and onwards

The world’s first journal of applied theatre first published these articles. How do we know? John O’Toole its editor tells us. It was probably the first because no one else was using the term ‘applied theatre’ as the millennium turned, but according to O’Toole, it soon caught on – one of those concepts whose time had come.

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Rethinking Roland Barthes through performance

Barthes belonged to a hugely influential group of intellectuals who took the post-war work of Jacques Lacan and ran with it into the late twentieth century and beyond; these included Deleuze, Kristeva, Foucault, Cixous, Althusser, and Irigaray. Like Barthes they all experienced the cultural shift from structuralism to poststructuralism that Lacan had identified in Freud’s work on the unconscious – and they each tried to get their heads around its implications in their different ways.

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Stages in the Revolution

Stages in the Revolution was first published in 1982 and remains one of the most important studies of the growth of what it describes in a subtitle as ‘political theatre in in Britain since 1968’. Together with 1980’s Dreams and Deconstructions (edited by Sandy Craig) it paints an intimate portrait of important developments in British theatre that held out the promise of escapes from what many of its participants regarded as a sclerotic established theatre that chose to ignore significant changes in the social and political status quo.

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Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis

Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis is an important and challenging collection of writing from educators, practitioners and activists. It both recognises the enormity of the challenges that we face at this moment in our collective history- yet gives this reader, as practitioner, educator and activist- hope, by giving insight, invitations and provocations to act.

Read More »

Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art

This excellent book fills a gap that has long existed in academic study of British grass roots arts: a conspectus that records the history of the community arts movement in the UK, locates it in the communities and the times when it was made, and explores its significance as a democratising force in British culture.

Read More »

Insights in Applied Theatre: the early days and onwards

The world’s first journal of applied theatre first published these articles. How do we know? John O’Toole its editor tells us. It was probably the first because no one else was using the term ‘applied theatre’ as the millennium turned, but according to O’Toole, it soon caught on – one of those concepts whose time had come.

Read More »

Rethinking Roland Barthes through performance

Barthes belonged to a hugely influential group of intellectuals who took the post-war work of Jacques Lacan and ran with it into the late twentieth century and beyond; these included Deleuze, Kristeva, Foucault, Cixous, Althusser, and Irigaray. Like Barthes they all experienced the cultural shift from structuralism to poststructuralism that Lacan had identified in Freud’s work on the unconscious – and they each tried to get their heads around its implications in their different ways.

Read More »

Stages in the Revolution

Stages in the Revolution was first published in 1982 and remains one of the most important studies of the growth of what it describes in a subtitle as ‘political theatre in in Britain since 1968’. Together with 1980’s Dreams and Deconstructions (edited by Sandy Craig) it paints an intimate portrait of important developments in British theatre that held out the promise of escapes from what many of its participants regarded as a sclerotic established theatre that chose to ignore significant changes in the social and political status quo.

Read More »

Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis

Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis is an important and challenging collection of writing from educators, practitioners and activists. It both recognises the enormity of the challenges that we face at this moment in our collective history- yet gives this reader, as practitioner, educator and activist- hope, by giving insight, invitations and provocations to act.

Read More »

Editorial Board

Notes on Authors

Volume 15 Notes on Authors

Notes on Authors Dr. William D. Barlow is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen. His research centres on educational and life transitions. Will has published widely on using drama as an approach to support and make sense of transitions with groups ranging from young people to senior citizens.

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Volume 15 Notes on Authors

Notes on Authors Dr. William D. Barlow is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen. His research centres on educational and life transitions. Will has published widely on using drama as an approach to support and make sense of transitions with groups ranging from young people to senior citizens.

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