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TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Dr. Susan Haedicke publishes an article on Friches Théâtre Urbain’s applied theatre project in the banlieues north of Paris that works with rival gangs in Research in Drama Education
Dr. Susan Haedicke published ‘Breaking a Legacy of Hatred: Friches Théâtre Urbain’s Lieu Commun’ in Research in Drama Education 21.2 (2016): 161-75. The article examines the innovative applied theatre project that resulted from a violent clash between rival gangs from Asnières and Gennevilliers in the banlieue north of Paris when a fifteen-year old boy was killed at the metro station Les Courtilles, the last stop on Line 13. Realizing the need for radically different approaches to halt an escalation of violence, city officials, asked Sarah Harper, Artistic Director of Friches Théâtre Urbain, a street theatre company in Paris, to develop a community-based art-making project that would augment attempts by the youth workers and others to defuse the volatile situation.