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  • Staging Class Conflict in the UK

    by Liz Tomlin ...
    Series series Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political
    This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of ... Read more

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  • Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship

    Provocations for Change

    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Rancière to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political ... Read more

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  • British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014

    Mind the Gap, Kneehigh Theatre, Suspect Culture, Stan's Cafe, Blast Theory, Punchdrunk

    Series series British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
    This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to 2014. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the most important companies. Volume Three, 1995-2014, ... Read more

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  • Point Blank

    'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'

    Edited by Liz Tomlin ...
    Liz Tomlin is co-artistic director of the Point Blank theater company, based in Sheffield, and a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Applied Drama

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