Theatre and Performance Studies News
EMERGE 2018. A festival celebrating the work of Warwick alumni theatre companies
EMERGE is a two-day festival (30th / 31st October) at Warwick Arts Centre that celebrates and continues to develop the exciting work of Warwick alumni theatre companies (including Barrel Organ, Clown Funeral, Feat. Theatre and Emergency Chorus). Through panels, performances and workshops , Emerge 2018 addresses questions surrounding the complex world we live in today. Where is home? How do we build it? How do we preserve it? GET INVOLVED!
Places at workshops and discussions are free and open to all - registration is not required. Tickets for performances can booked at Warwick Arts Centre.
Professor Jim Davis awarded £600,000 AHRC grant to research Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
An AHRC grant of approximately £600,000 has been awarded to Professor Jim Davis as Principal Investigator and to Professor Kate Newey (Exeter University) as Co-Investigator for a research project on Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. The project will be based at Warwick in Theatre and Performance Studies. Two named postdoctoral full-time research fellows will also be attached to the project for its three-year duration: Dr Pat Smyth, an art historian specialising in the relationship between art and theatre in nineteenth-century France, who will be based at Warwick, and Dr Kate Holmes (who has a specialist interest in circus and aerial performance), based at Exeter. Bristol University’s Theatre Collection and Exeter University’s Bill Douglas Museum will be project partners, collaborating in the mounting of exhibitions and conferences.
AWPN at Africa Writes
AWPN to be represented by Yvette Hutchison and Warwick TPS research fellow, Kenyan playwright JC Niala, who will speak at Africa Writes, British Library, London on Saturday in the session, ‘Why African Literature Matters’ - see the whole program at
https://www.bl.uk/…/events/2018/june/aw_2018_leaflet_final_…
AWPN - New Collection of Plays is Shining the Light on African Women Playwrights
The African Women's Playwright Network is publishing a new collection of plays, Contemporary plays by African Woman, by African playwrights from Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa. See Brittle Paper post on its significance, https://brittlepaper.com/2018/04/collection-contemporary-plays-african-women/