Theatre Studios: A Political History of Ensemble Theatre-Making
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- TCOR2
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315644325
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315644325
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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- Double-weighted statement
- ‘Theatre Studios’ is a 140,985-word longer-form monograph that details the studio tradition of experimental, ensemble theatre practice in the UK. Drawing on eight years of sustained archival research into companies run by Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine, Michael Chekhov and Joan Littlewood between 1935 and 1965, and embedded research with Secret Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith, 2013–15), the book charts an occluded but highly significant genealogy of theatre-making. It pursues a materialist and structural approach, theorizing each studio’s work in relation to both anthropological and political theory, and arguing that, as collectivities, they represent important case studies of creative and political organization.
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- Non-English
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