Theatre and Performance Studies News
Professor Nicolas Whybrow speaks about the Sensing the City Project as part of UN World Cities Day
What is 91¸£Àû doing to address the challenges faced by cities and the people that live in them?
To celebrate UN World Cities Day, the Sustainable Cities GRP is holding a half-day event to showcase cities research at 91¸£Àû. Besides offering the opportunity to hear more about the wide variety of research being undertaken in the cities space, this event will also offer the opportunity to advance university wide relationships and to learn more about research opportunities linked to cities.
Professor Nicolas Whybrow will begin the conference with his paper 'Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Space'. To learn more about the Sensing the City project click HERE or follow the project on twitter
EMERGE 2018. A festival celebrating the work of 91¸£Àû alumni theatre companies
EMERGE is a two-day festival (30th / 31st October) at that celebrates and continues to develop the exciting work of 91¸£Àû alumni theatre companies (including Barrel Organ, Clown Funeral, Feat. Theatre and Emergency Chorus). Through panels, performances and workshops , Emerge 2018 addresses questions surrounding the complex world we live in today. Where is home? How do we build it? How do we preserve it? GET INVOLVED!
Places at workshops and discussions are free and open to all - registration is not required. Tickets for performances can
Professor Jim Davis awarded £600,000 AHRC grant to research Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
An AHRC grant of approximately £600,000 has been awarded to Professor Jim Davis as Principal Investigator and to Professor Kate Newey (Exeter University) as Co-Investigator for a research project on Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. The project will be based at 91¸£Àû in Theatre and Performance Studies. Two named postdoctoral full-time research fellows will also be attached to the project for its three-year duration: Dr Pat Smyth, an art historian specialising in the relationship between art and theatre in nineteenth-century France, who will be based at 91¸£Àû, and Dr Kate Holmes (who has a specialist interest in circus and aerial performance), based at Exeter. Bristol University’s Theatre Collection and Exeter University’s Bill Douglas Museum will be project partners, collaborating in the mounting of exhibitions and conferences.
AWPN at Africa Writes
AWPN to be represented by Yvette Hutchison and 91¸£Àû TPS research fellow, Kenyan playwright JC Niala, who will speak at Africa Writes, British Library, London on Saturday in the session, ‘Why African Literature Matters’ - see the whole program at