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Prof. Nadine Holdsworth guest edits a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on amateur theatre and performance
Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 2017, a special issue titled 'Theatre, Performance and The Amateur Turn' guest edited by Nadine Holdsworth, Jane Milling and Helen Nicholson is now available on Taylor & Francis Online:
This special issue on amateur theatre and performance is accompanied by a set of online features, free to access, at , that give further insight into research methods on this subject. These include that came out of 鈥楨vocative Objects鈥� workshops held with amateur theatre-makers throughout the UK; , who has worked across professional and amateur contexts; compiled by Sarah Penny and Nadine Holdsworth; and Molly Flynn鈥檚 reflections on .
Introduction
Theatre, Performance and The Amateur Turn
Articles
The Sociable Aesthetics of Amateur Theatre
Erin Walcon and Helen Nicholson
pages: 18-33
Noh Creativity? The Role of Amateurs in Japanese Noh Theatre
Diego Pellecchia
pages: 34-45
鈥楾he Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music鈥�: Musical Theatre at Girls鈥� Jewish Summer Camps in Maine, USA
Stacy Wolf
pages: 46-60
Amateur Science in Activist Performance: Towards a Slow Science
Simon Parry
pages: 61-75
鈥榁illage Hall work can never be 鈥淭heatre鈥濃��: Amateur Theatre and The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1945-1956
Taryn Storey
pages: 76-91
Performing Failure? Anomalous Amateurs in J茅r么me Bel鈥檚 Disabled Theater and The Show Must Go On 2015
Sarah Gorman
pages: 92-103
Documents
Materialities of Amateur Theatre
Reviews
Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, and David Saltz
Acatia Finbow
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation
by Fintan Walsh
Alyson Campbell
It鈥�s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells ed. by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson
Antje Hildebrandt
Voices from Within: Grotowski鈥�s Polish Collaborators ed. by Paul Allain and
Grzegorz Zi贸艂kowski, trans. by Justyna Drobnik-Rogers, Duncan Jamieson,
and Adela Karsznia
Acting with Grotowski: Theatre as a Field for Experiencing Life by Zbigniew
Cynkutis, ed. by Paul Allain and Khalid Tyabji, trans. by Khalid Tyabji
Halina Filipowicz
Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
(Second edition) edited. by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton;
Critical Perspectives on Applied Theory edited by Jenny Hughes and
Helen Nicholson
Maggie Inchley
Performing Contemporary Indonesia: Celebrating Identity, Constructing
Community ed. by Barbara Hatley
Matthew Isaac Cohen
The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual,
Towards the Real ed. by Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, and
N茅ill O鈥橠wyer
Rosie Klich
The Editing of Emma Rice
Tom Cornford
Crisis Management in the Theatre of Shon Dale-Jones
Maddy Costa
Europe: A Tragedy of Love and Ideology
Andrew Haydon
Archiving Gestures of Disobedience
Farah Saleh
Remembering Annie Castledine (1939-2016)
Annabel Arden
Mighty Annie
Gerlind Reinshagen
pages:134-148