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Other Hospitalities: Reflections on Chris Goode’s Ensemble Ponyboy Curtis
Includes reactions by Good, Megan Vaughan, Costa and Simon Bowes.
The Future Show
The Future Show is both a performance and an on-going project. It is a piece that tells the story of a one person's future, starting from the end of a performance and going until the end of her life.
Not Just a Mirror: Looking for the Political Theatre of Today
The publication is comprised of eight essays, two interviews, and 15 case studies of political theatre makers, and investigates the performing arts as a political laboratory of the present. It explores how theatre, dance, and performance reveal their essential agnosticism, provoking the potential to actively change society rather than merely serving as a cover-up for the dysfunctions, fractures, and wounds of society.
Contemporary Theatre Review: Theatre, Performance and Activism - Gestures towards an Equitable World
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
The Mums and Babies Ensemble: A Manual
The Mums and Babies Ensemble was a series of public workshops and events convened by three mums/theatre-makers and their babies. It was prompted by the desire to integrate the structure and chaos of performance-making and motherhood, to create a space that would meet the needs of the parents and babies equally, to capture some memories, to grow a community, and to pass something on eventually.
By institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home.
Embracing the Elusive or the necessity of the superfluous
Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenges Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum (ATF). Miscellaneous folder #5A.
Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings
Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In 1987, Paul Bright, a rebellious young Scottish director set out to stage James Hogg’s cult novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner in a series of radical productions across Scotland. In 2010, Untitled Projects began work with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive and exhibition of this almost-forgotten feat of theatre.
Other Theatres: The Development of Alternative and Experimental Theatre in Britain
An introduction to the important tradition of alternative and experimental theatre in Britain as it has developed over 200 years.
Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain
An illustrated account of the development of alternative theatre in Britain over the 60s and 70s.
