Theatre and Performance Studies News
Warwick in London Taster Evenings
Andy Lavender, David Coates and Sarah Penny along with current students Jack Bailey and Caitlin Tracey, and our alumni Alexandra Rutter (founder of Whole Hog Theatre and Resident Director of Nelke Planning, Tokyo) and Emma Martin (freelance Arts Marketing consultant) participated in a Taster Evening at Warwick in London yesterday. This was the first in a series of events in Warwick’s excellent facilities in London to connect with London schools and was a friendly and convivial event.
Professor Nadine Holdsworth publishes the co-written book 'The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre'
Nadine Holdsworth publishes the co-written book The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137508096
Call for papers: Cultures of the Left in the Age of Right-Wing Populism - Manifestations and Performances - Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe
Monday 15th- Wednesday 17th April 2019
Warwick University in Venice
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
Keynote Speaker: Professor Chantal Mouffe
This event is the culmination of a substantial period of research funded by the British Academy Partnership and Mobility grant (2016-19) that brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Warwick University (UK) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) as well as researchers, artists and activists from other European and overseas institutions and places. We are asking how could both the historical legacy of the Left and its current manifestations and performances contribute to formulating an aesthetic of resistance not only as a reactive practice, but as a way to sustain the politics of inclusion, equality, care for the commons and social justice? The concept, coined by playwright Peter Weiss against the backdrop of raising fascism in the 1930s—asserts that art and culture, by formulating an aesthetic of resistance, are the means of finding new modes of political action and new forms of social understanding. The urgency of this project is to explore the politics and aesthetics of these forms as means of dissent, but even more importantly, as strategies of sustaining the progressive political agenda both against the backdrop of the alarmingly rising Right and on its own term.