Dialogue as the embodiment of love : a Practice as Research investigation into a trilogy of socially engaged work by Ridiculusmus
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University of Salford, The
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 59158
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Performance and critical writing
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month
- October
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://figshare.com/collections/Dialogue_as_the_Embodiment_of_Love_a_Practice-Research_Investigation_into_a_Trilogy_of_Socially_Engaged_Work_by_Ridiculusmus/4470815/1
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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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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This portfolio documents the process of creating the trilogy of plays Dialogue as the Embodiment of Love (2014-2019), by Ridiculusmus. The project examines an interdisciplinary practice-as-research dialogue between clinical therapeutic approaches to three mental health conditions and performancemaking. The conditions are psychosis, PTSD, and ‘complicated grief’, defined in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual DSM-5 (2013) as ‘disorders’; and the process of creating, performing and disseminating a performance response to each condition is analysed through a discussion of each play in turn. The analysis tracks a shift in the preoccupations of the dialogue from communicating the experience of a disorder through theatrical performance, to devising an effective theatrical space for dialogue between theatre-makers, clinical psychologists and audiences.
A Summary articulates the position of the practitioner researcher and the methodological rationale. A Project Timeline with hyperlinks to the documents, indicates key stages in Talbot’s contribution to devising, touring in performance, facilitating residencies, and curating public engagement. An Article on making Total Football (Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2014), provides a context for the researcher-practitioner relatonship prior to the trilogy; a Conference Paper (Theatre and Performance Research Association, 2015) with links to audio-visual sources introduces the first production, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (2014) alongside a commentary on an interview with Woods and Haynes in a Chapter (Shaughnessy, 2019). A Preface to the script, Give Me Your Love (2016) and a peer-reviewed Article discuss ‘intoxicated’, disordered performance (Performance Research Journal, 2017) in this second production. Finally, Complementary Writing on Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! (2018) frames discussions and video documents presented during a three-day online seminar series (2020) and curated by Talbot. Further evidence of public engagement approaches are represented by an audio recording of a Chaired Panel following the performance of the trilogy at BAC, London.
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- Non-English
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