This article looks at the theme of 'performing labour'in Look Left Look Right's Above and
Beyond (2013). In this performance, individual audience members participate as a generic …

This article examines the demand for 'authentic'emotional performances from employees in
service sector workplaces, considering the case of the coffee chain Pret A Manger in …

This article explores what might be at stake when art and performance exposes the
apparently peripheral structures of value and labour that support the art-event. For example …

This article uses reflective dialogues to consider the complex expertise of those who work in
applied theatre, with the objective of informing training for the role. Operating across a range …

The period between 2010 and 2017 has been a profoundly difficult time for women in
relation to work and welfare in the United Kingdom (UK). Female unemployment rose rapidly …

So, you want to work in theatre. But what kind of 'work'is this? The task of the actor has long
been a subject of Scepticism, and often scorn, accused of being not real work: either it is not …

A milestone development in a practice-as-research investigation led to the identification of
'habitational action'as a term that resists a priori restrictions of inner–outer problematics …

Nestled comfortably on a double bed, feet up, shoes off, I undertake a series of interviews
with participants of a theatre and film-making project in Rochdale (UK). I had been invited to …

This thesis attempts to develop a pedagogy for devised theatre conceived of as a praxis.
Part One explores the status and history of both devised theatre and theatre pedagogy …

This book is enriching, provocative, and rewarding. As someone who wrestles daily with
navigating three different applied theatre spheres (teaching, practice, and research) I found …