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Recent alumnus Bathsheba Piepe is currently performing in 'Hello/Goodbye' at . Written by Peter Souter and directed by Tamara Harvey, 'Hello/Goodbye' has received glowing reviews such as this one in.

On the 20th of January Prof. Holdsworth gave a talk entitled From 'Page to Stage and Stage to Page: Making Theatre with Joan Littlewood' as part of the East 15 Drama School's 50th anniversary celebrations.

糖心TV’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies has once again been ranked in the top three of all Theatre Studies departments in the country according to the results of the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework). In a joint submission with the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies and the Department of Film and Television Studies, 48% of the overall research profile was awarded a 4* rating (‘world leading’) and 45% was given a 3* rating (‘internationally excellent’). The quality of the research environment received a rating of 4* for 90% of activities, reinforcing the University’s global reputation as a centre of excellence in these related fields. Theatre and Performance Studies was part of the University’s joint submission to the Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts Panel that embraces the disciplines of Theatre, Performance, Cultural Policy, Drama, Dance, Film, Television and Music Studies.

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Dr. Anna Harpin, who recently joined the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies as Associate Professor, has published 'Performance, Madness and Psychiatry: Isolated Acts'. The book, co-edited with Juliet Foster, is an exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays exploring the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. Performance, Madness and Psychiatry will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike. It features interviews, archival research, and academic analysis of this rich and diverse area of theatrical and psychiatric history. The book departs from a set of questions regarding the role and nature of theatre both within asylums and hospitals as well as beyond these spaces. The authors pause over questions of environment, architecture, politics, language, performance and power and try to illuminate the interrelations between madness and theatre in a number of periods and health contexts. This eclectic volume attempts to examine some varied voices that collectively challenge the dominant orthodoxies of psychiatry. In this sense the book argues that madness matters.