Theatre and Performance Studies News

Nadine Holdsworth (2019) 'Dramatic Evolutions/Bodily Violations', British Literature in Transition 1980-2000: Accelerated Times, ed. by Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 76-90

Emine Fişek joins the department as an IAS Visiting Fellow

Fişek’s current research project asks: what is the relationship between theatre and memory in contemporary Turkey? Both domains have undergone significant shifts in the twenty-first century. In a national context historically dominated by centrally funded state and municipal theatre institutions, recent years have witnessed the proliferation of “alternative theatres”: small, independent ventures that seek new forms of theatrical expression and explore thorny issues of national memory and cultural identity. Meanwhile, political developments in the new millennium have contested the foundations of Turkey’s modernization project, producing new readings of the country’s past. In her research, Fişek asks how alternative theatre has responded to this shifting terrain through a focus on theatre and gentrification, examining how artists depict the relationship between urban history and public memory, and how they negotiate their own involvement in processes of migration and urban transformation.

Congratulations to Professor Nadine Holdsworth who has been awarded £9000 from the University's HEIF Impact Fund to support a project with the National Maritime Museum called 'Maritime Creativity: From Archive to Exhibition'.