There’s A Room: Three Performance Texts by Third Angel
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 30
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oberon
- ISBN
- 9781786827524
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Kelly was responsible for editing There’s A Room: Three Performance Texts by Third Angel which collects three scripts by theatre company Third Angel: Where From Here, Presumption and What I Heard About the World (a co-production with mala voadora, Portugal). Kelly was co-deviser and co-writer of all three performance pieces, and was lead author of the essays prefacing each script with input from Rachael Walton.
Kelly is co-artistic director of Third Angel, also performing in What I Heard About the World and Where From Here, additionally co-designing and co-directing Where From Here and Presumption.
The rationale for bringing these three performance texts together (out of over 40 projects made by Third Angel since 1995), is that these three pieces were created through collaborative, multi-author devising processes, which have produced scripts which can now be presented by other performers and companies.
As Kelly elucidates in each introductory essay, those making processes drew on the autobiographical experiences of the maker/performer/writers. That autobiographical material is then integrated into material resulting from documentary research and collaboration with specialists, meaning that the script is inhabitable by other performers. This is not the case for all autobiographical theatre. The content of the shows also playfully acknowledges that they occupy an area between autobiography, documentary, fiction, and reportage of research process. In each show, performers address the audience directly – both in character and as maker/authors.
The contextual essays expand on the hints at process acknowledged in the shows themselves, sharing the intentions and discoveries of the collaborative research and processes of making: fictionalising autobiography and incorporation of live art/drawing devices (Where From Here), combining autobiography, character and construction task (Presumption), international collaboration with other artists (mala voadora) and geographers/cartographers (Worldmapper), inhabiting and re-telling found stories (What I Heard About the World).
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