Theatre and Performance Studies News
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 collaborates with Baz Kershaw and Earthrise Repair Shop to construct two large-scale Prairie Meanders in Iowa.
Dr. Susan Haedicke collaborated with Baz Kershaw and Earthrise Repair Shop to conceive and construct Prairie Meanders at the Conrad Environmental Research Area on the prairie in Grinnell, Iowa, in September 2016. This project was a large-scale version of earlier ‘meadow meanders’ created by Kershaw that explore human ‘econnectivity’ to the earth through performance ecologies, conservation and regeneration. Prairie Meanders constructed two meanders, one a quarter of a mile long; the other over two-thirds of a mile. These maze-like pathways mimic major ecological processes of Earth. Once the pattern is established, a walker meanders along the path and viscerally experiences a global ecology on a local, human-sized scale. Combining land art, nature trail, gallery display and immersive performance, the meanders produced dynamic experiences of 'glocal' ecosystem processes as they created environmental puzzles exploring the ecologies of interacting climates, landscapes and species.