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.
"Contemporary Plays by African Women" launches in collaboration with the Belgrade Youth Group
Yvette's co-edited collection of Contemporary Plays by African Women will be launched in collaboration with the Belgrade Youth Group at two events - at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry on Thursday 21st February, and Oxford Playhouse on 22nd February, for details see
http://www.belgrade.co.uk/event/contemporary-plays-by-african-women
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Contemporary Plays By African Women at Belgrade Theatre As part of a new partnership between the Belgrade Theatre and Warwick University’s African Women’s Playwright Network, select participants from our Youth Theatre will present extracts from Contemporary Plays by African Women due to be published by Methuen in January 2019.. The evening takes on an interactive form, embracing and encouraging discussion and debate around where and how the ... |
https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/whats-on/all-shows/contemporary-plays-by-african-women/11997
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Contemporary Plays by African Women - oxfordplayhouse.com A free event from the African Women Playwright's Network |
Breach Theatre co-founders and Warwick Alumni Billy Barrett and Elice Stevens feature on the V&A's podcast TheatreVoice
Breach Theatre co-founders and Warwick alumni Billy Barrett and Elice Stevens feature on the V&A's podcast TheatreVoice. The episode is now available online and on iTunes: http://www.theatrevoice.com/audio/breach-theatre/
One of the smartest emerging companies in British theatre, Breach Theatre are interrogating the nature of veracity on stage. Against the backdrop of the post-truth era, their work often interrogates the limits of documentary theatre and re-enactment. Following the success of It’s True It’s True It’s True, a verbatim piece fashioned out of transcripts from a 17th century rape trial, two of the company’s co-founders Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens join Helen Gush to discuss the topicality of the show and their approach to devising.
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Faculty of Arts placed 44th in new World Rankings
The University of Warwick’s Faculty of Arts has been named 44th in the world for Arts and Humanities by the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2019 by subject. The new ranking also places Warwick in the UK’s top 10 Arts and Humanities faculties at 9th=.