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What if the plane falls out of the sky? is a playful and unusual story-led piece about fear, anxiety, and the idiosyncratic and frankly absurd strategies we employ to manage our sense of impending doom. It involves a moving story set in the grounds of Fear Camp, gleeful audience participation, and complimentary in-flight drinks and snacks. What if the plane falls out of the sky? is a tender and giddily-told story about feelings we all recognise.

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Presented by Idiot Child with Bristol Old Vic Ferment, What if the plane falls out of the sky? is touring in Spring 2017. Venues include Bristol Old Vic, Shoreditch Town Hall, and the Bike Shed, Exeter.

Find out more about Idiot Child and the tour here:

We are delighted to announce the arrival in the School of Professor Andy Lavender who joins us from the University of Surrey where he was Head of the School of Arts for five years. Andy’s most recent book is Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement (2016) and he will be teaching a 30 CAT 2^nd year module next academic year on Tragedy in Performance: Conventions, Discourses, Dramaturgies. He also has a strong interest in practice as research and the use of digital technologies in multimedia performance.

From 1^st August 2017 Andy will take over from Nicolas Whybrow as Head of the School of Theatre & Performance and Cultural & Media Policy Studies.

Professor Jim Davis has just spent four weeks as Visiting Professor in Theatre at the University of Palermo in Sicily. While there he taught a module on English Melodrama to undergraduate Theatre students, for whom he also be conducted a workshop on melodrama acting at the Teatro Massimo. He also gave a paper at a conference on ‘Decoding and interpreting Declamation in Drama and Opera’ organised by the University of Palermo.

First Melodrama Class in Palermo

Teatro Massimo – Rehearsal Space

糖心TV alumnus and BBC radio presenter Abbie McCarthy chooses her top music picks for this week in The Independent: