Research in the department covers a range of practices of and approaches to contemporary performance, with a particular focus on the use of critical, philosophical and political theory.
Our work around contemporary theatre and performance covers a broad range of practices from across Europe and Britain. We engage in the critical, political and contextual analysis of various modes of theatrical and performance-based practices, including new writing; devised performance; music; digital technologies; immersive and participatory performance; European theatre since 1960; festivals and tourism; Performance Art and Live Art; and acting and directing methodologies.
![Dr Gianna Bouchard](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/bouchard-gianna-300-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Senior Lecturer
Head of Drama and Theatre Arts
- The medicalised body in performance
- Anatomical dissection and bodily display as performance
- Medical humanities
- Politics of identity and performance
- Contemporary theatre practice and critical theory
- Live art Performance and interdisciplinary practice
![Dr Joanna Bucknall](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/bucknell-joanna-2018-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Lecturer
- Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage & legacy
- Gamification & play in performance
![Dr Claire French](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/french-claire-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Assistant Professor in Performance and Creative Practices
I am new to the department, teaching across theory and practice and leading the new MA in Performance Practices: Applied Artists. My specialisms include applied, autobiographical and multilingual performance practices. I am currently most connected to South African theatre and performance artists and activists, articulating new dramaturgies and frameworks for sustainable global collaboration. ...
![Professor Adam J. Ledger](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/ledger-adam-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professor of Theatre and Performance
- Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
- Devising
- The Odin Teatret
- Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
- Practice research
![Dr David Pattie](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/pattie-david-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Senior Lecturer
- Samuel Beckett.
- Contemporary British theatre and performance.
- Performance and popular culture.
![Dr Caroline Radcliffe](/images/college-artslaw-only/drama/landingpage/drama-ug-open-day-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Reader in Drama and Performance
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance
![Dr Ellen Redling](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/redling-ellen-230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Lecturer
- Contemporary socio-political drama (British and European)
- Ancient Greek and Roman plays and their influence on British theatre
- Medieval and Renaissance drama
- Non-standard forms of contemporary drama and theatre
- Drama and narration
- Literary and cultural theory and networks
- Ethics and drama
- Post-postmodernism
- Intermediality
![Professor Graham Saunders](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/saunders-graham-square-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama
- Harold Pinter
- British alternative or fringe theatre
- Contemporary Shakespeare
- Arts Council
- Samuel Beckett
![Dr Rose Whyman](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/whyman-rose-square-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Senior Lecturer
- Russian actor training, particularly Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Meyerhold
- The history of Russian theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The plays of Anton Chekhov
- Actor-training and Alexander Technique