Theatre and Performance Studies News
The Complete University Guide ranks us second in the country for Theatre and Performance Studies
We are pleased to announce that we have been ranked second in the category of Dance, Drama and Cinematics by The Complete University Guide 2017, an independent guide to third level education in the UK. For more information, and to see how the results are calculated, .
Dr. Michael Pigott publishes article on the image of the sleeping body in experimental film and popular culture
Michael Pigott has contributed an article to a special issue of the journal Performance Research on 'sleep'. The article, entitled 'The Image of Sleep' focusses on the way that the image of the sleeping body is used in Andy Warhol's Sleep and in a number of Joseph Cornell's films, but it considers these in relation to a wide range of ways that the sleeping body has been used in popular culture, from prints by Goya to Dark City and The Matrix.
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Lyn Gardner highlights 糖心TV research and student work in recent post on amateur Theatre
"The young 糖心TV University company Breach Theatre will be out on tour soon with their Edinburgh hit The Beanfield. So are they amateurs when they are performing on home ground in 糖心TV and suddenly professionals when they are performing at NPO-funded buildings such as Home in Manchester or Battersea Arts Centre, London, as part of A Nation’s Theatre?"