Find a research supervisor in 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

• Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
• One-on-one performance
• Practice research methodologies
• Performance documentation
• Performing heritage & legacy
• Gamification & play in performance

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. ...

Key areas of research:

• Shakespeare on screen
• Representations of the theatre in film and in other media
• 19th century British Theatre

• Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
• Devising
• The Odin Teatret
• Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
• Practice research

• Postdramatic theatre
• Devising
• Autobiographical performance
• Live art practices
• Practice as research
• Dramaturgy

• Samuel Beckett.
• Contemporary British theatre and performance.
• Performance and popular culture.

• Victorian theatre
• Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
• Popular theatre and performance
• All areas of theatre and music
• Technologies and performance

• 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

• Harold Pinter
• British alternative or fringe theatre
• Contemporary Shakespeare
• Arts Council
• Samuel Beckett

• 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