Previous Collaborations
The African Women's Playwright Network
The African Women’s Playwright Network developed by Yvette Hutchison has involved collaborations with playwrights like Amy Jepta from the University of Cape Town and JC Niala from Oxford University, the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, The Mothertongue Project, Caucasus of Canadian Playwright Guild, Africa Writes as part of Royal African Society, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Oxford Playhouse. These collaborations have fostered staged play readings, symposia/public events, workshops, education projects and publications. This has included the ‘Breaking Boundaries: African Women Writing on the Edges of Race, Gender and Identity’ symposia held at Arts Admin Collective in Cape Town in 2017 that involved 55 women artists and theatre programmers from 8 African countries and the UK and staging excerpts for the launch of Contemporary Plays by African Women (2019), edited by Yvette Hutchison and Amy Jepta.
Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance
The long-standing partnership between Theatre and Performance Studies and the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India continues to foster a number of activities. The UKIERI funded ‘Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance’ (2014-2016), a joint venture between TPS, Politics and International Studies and JNU, explored multidisciplinary approaches to legal, social-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction, gendered violence and abuse that resulted in a conference, a collection Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance edited by Emeritus Professor Janelle Reinelt (Warwick), Bishnuprya Dutt and Sahai Shrinkla (JNU) and a special edition of Lateral