Event overview
Part of the spring programme of the Research Seminar on the Theory, Practice and History of Performance.
This promises to be a major contribution to the ongoing debate in academia about practice as research.
Professor Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway.
Dan's research has mainly focused on post-war British theatre. 1956 and All That (Routledge, 1999) is a rereading of the ‘theatrical revolution’ thought to have taken place at the Royal Court around Look Back in Anger. He has recently completed the short monograph, Theatre & Globalization, which argues for the theatre as a source of cosmopolitan resistance to globalization. The book is part of Theatre &, a new series of books opening up the latest thinking in theatre and performance research. His next project is a book-length study of British playwriting in the 2000s.
Theoretically, Dan has engaged variously with poststructural thinkers like Derrida and Foucault, a German critical tradition, from Kant to Adorno, and, more recently, the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. Together with colleagues from across the faculty, I have have introduced Philosophy as an undergraduate joint degree programme. The first students graduated in 2010.
Dan is also a playwright, and his work has been performed across Britain and in Europe and America, on stage and radio. He designed, with colleagues in English, two new joint degrees in Creative Writing, whose first students graduated in 2007.
Dan has chaired numerous platforms for the National Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, and Manchester Royal Exchange, and he is an artistic associate for Analogue theatre company, a regular contributor to the Guardian stage blog, and a contributing editor for New Theatre Quarterly and Associate Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review.
All welcome.
Wine will be served.
www.gold.ac.uk/drama/research-seminars/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Mar 2011 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
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