Publications

Staff research involves explorations in and through a variety of media, and publication is only part of how we share our results. Investigations into performance, movement, voice, light, objects and sound can also involve showings, CDs, performed presentations, DVDs or other modes of dissemination. Recent and forthcoming staff publications are listed below.

Publications

Joel Anderson

2009 ‘Theatrical Photography, Photographic Theatre and the Still’, in About Performance 8: Still Moving: Photography and Live Performance, ed. Gay McAuley University of Sydney

2010 ‘The Director’s New Task’ in Contemporary European Theatre Directors, (eds) Maria M Delgado and Dan Reballato Routledge

2009 'Physical Theatre and the Dramaturgy of the Actor' in Politik Mit Dem Körper: Performative Praktiken in Theater, Medien und Alltagskultur siet 1968 (eds) Friedemann Kreuder and Michael Bachmann Bielefeld: transcript Verlag

Catherine Alexander

2010 ‘Complicité: The Elephant Vanishes (2003/04): ‘The elephant and keeper have vanished completely… They will never be coming back’, in Making Contemporary Theatre: International rehearsal processes, (eds) Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender Manchester University Press

Cariad Astles

2010 ‘Shadows and Objects’, in Butterflying Barcelona, (ed) Helena Buffery (University of Wales Press)

2009 ‘Wood and Waterfall: Puppetry training and its anthropology’, in Performance Research ed. Richard Gough and Simon Shepherd 14:2 ‘On Training’

2009 ‘Dancing Giants and Bigheads: Processions and Puppets in Catalonia’, in Animated Advances ed. Dorothy Max Prior Puppet Centre

2009 ‘Barcelona: Earth, Puppets and Embodiment’, in Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory ed. Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars

2009 ‘African spectacle within Cuban theatre’, in African Theatre Journal: African Theatre in the Diaspora ed. Osita Okagbue The John Hopkins University Press

2008 ‘Alternative Puppet Bodies’ in Móin-móin: Revista de estudos sobre teatro de formas animadas (Sociedade Cultura Artística de Jaraguá do Sul—SCAR)

2007 ‘Catalan Puppet Theatre: a process of cultural affirmation’ in Contemporary Theatre Review ed. Maria Delgado, David George and Lourdes Orozco 17:3 Special Issue: Catalan Theatre 1975-2006: Politics, Identity and Performance

2010 ‘Puppetry Training for Contemporary Live Theatre’, in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (eds) Simon Murray and Jonathan Pitches 1:1 Taylor and Francis

Paul Barker

2010 Hello, Mr.Darwin! commissioned by Opera UK, Text and directed by Jane McCulloch. Premiered at Burdett-Coutts Primary School, November 25th 2010

2010 ‘Creative Arts and Peace’, in Encyclopaedia of Peace Oxford University Press

2010 ‘Theatre of War and Peace’, in Encyclopaedia of Peace Oxford University Press

2010 ‘La Malinche’ (ca. 4 minutes) commission for ‘Solo Rumores’ solo piano by Ana Cervantes, performed at Premier Festival Cervantino and University of Austin in Texas

2011 El Gallo: Opera for 6 Actors and 2 String Quartets Without Text, commissioned by Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes and supported by AQEF. Premiered in Europe 2010 and toured in venues including Brighton Festival in May 2010 and is scheduled to be performed in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and Seattle, Washington in April/May

Ross Brown

2009 Sound: a reader in theatre practice Palgrave Macmillan

2009 ‘Noise, Memory, Gesture: the Theatre in a Minute’s Silence’, in Performance, Embodiment & Cultural Memory ed. Roberta Mock and Colin Counsell Cambridge Scholars

2010 ‘Sound Design: The Scenography of Engagement and Distraction’, in Theatre and Performance Design: a Reader in Scenography (eds) J. Collins and A. Nisbett Routledge 

Experience Bryon

2009 ‘Interdisciplinarity and Embodied Knowledge: Towards an Active Aesthetic Using Integrative Performance Practice’, in Tanz im Musiktheater – Tanz als Musiktheater ed. Thomas Betzwieser, Anno Mungen, Andreas Münzmay, Stephanie Schroedter Königshausen and Neumann

Simon Donger

2009 ‘ORLAN-Vertigo/Self-Touching-You’, in Interfaces of Performance, ed. J. Jefferies, R. Zerihan and M. Chatzichristodoulou Farnham: Ashgate

2010 ORLAN: A Hybrid of Body of Artworks, (eds) Simon Donger, with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN Routledge

2010 ‘'Carnal Vertigo', in ORLAN: A Hybrid of Body of Artworks, (eds) Simon Donger, with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN Routledge

2011 ‘Myth Interrupted: Scenographies of the Real Against the Real’ in Rewriting Myth, (ed) C. Marinho, University of Oporto.

Zachary Dunbar

2009 ‘From à la carte to Convergence: Symptoms of Interdisciplinarity in Reception Theory’ in Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History, and Critical Practice ed. Edith Hall Duckworth & Co.

2011  ‘Music Theatre’, in Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, (eds) David Wiles, Christine Dymkowski, Cambridge University Press

Tony Fisher

2009 ‘Bad Faith and the Actor: Onto-mimetology from a Sartrean Point of View’ in Sartre Studies International 15:1 Berghan

2010 ‘Heidegger's Generative Thesis’, in European Journal of Philosophy Wiley 18:2

2010 ‘Heidegger and the Narrativity Debate’, in Continental Philosophy Review Springer

Debbie Green

2009 ‘Integrated Movement Practices and the Breath’ in Breath in Action ed. Jane Boston and Rena Cook Jessica Kingsley

Richard Hougham

2009 ‘The Stone Soup: Towards a Mythological Intelligence’ in The Arts in Arts Therapy, A European Perspective, ed. S. Scoble and M. Ross University of Plymouth Press

Sally Mackey

2007 ‘Taking place: Some reflections on site, performance and community’, with Nicholas Whybrow, in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 12:1

2009 ‘Performing Place: an interrogation through praxis’ in Allegue, L., Jones, S., Kershaw, B. and Piccini, A. (Eds.), Practice-as-Research: in Performance and Screen DVD, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tara McAllister-Viel

2009 ‘Dahnjeon breathing’, in Breath in Action ed. Jane Boston and Rena Cook Jessica Kingsley

2009 ‘(Re)considering the Role of Breath in Training Actors' Voices: Insights from Dahnjeon Breathing and the Phenomena of Breath’ in Theatre Topics 19:2

2009 Voicing Culture: Training Korean Actors' Voices through the Namdaemun Market Projects’ in Modern Drama 52:4 

Catherine McNamara

2008 ‘The Pedagogy and Performance of Sci:dentities’ in Creative Encounters, (eds) Levinson, Ralph, Helen Nicholson & Simon Parry, London: Wellcome Trust (co-authored with Dr. Alison Rooke)

2011 'Applied Theatre: Fleshing out/ bringing into touch the practice of research and research of practice’ in Research Methods in Theatre and Performance: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities (eds.) B. Kershaw, H. Nicholson, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (co-authored with Jenny Hughes and Jenny Kidd)

Nick Moran

2010 Resisting the Lure of the Screen, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 6:1

2009 ‘Lighting for Collaborative and Devised Theatre’ in The Orientations Trilogy (published with the support for the cultural programme of the European Union)

Jane Munro

2010 ‘Methods and Motivation for Participatory Dance in Choreographic Practices, Online Journal

Robin Nelson

2011 Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen A & C Black Publishers Ltd

2010 Mapping Intermediality and Performance, (eds) Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender and Robin Nelson Amsterdam University Press

2010 'Perspective Mapping' in Mapping Intermediality and Performance, (eds) Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender and Robin Nelson Amsterdam University Press

2009 'Life on Mars' in The Essential Cult TV Reader (ed) David Lavery: The University Press of Kentucky

Sheila Preston

2009 The Applied Theatre Reader ed. Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston Routledge

Simon Shepherd

2009 Performance Research: On Training, (eds) Richard Gough and Simon Shepherd 14:2 Routledge

2009 ‘The Institution of Training’ in Performance Research: On Training, (eds) Richard Gough and Simon Shepherd 14:2 Routledge

2009 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre Cambridge University Press

2010 ORLAN: A Hybrid of Body of Artworks, (eds) Simon Donger, with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN Routledge

2010 ‘The Matter of ORLAN’, in ORLAN: A Hybrid of Body of Artworks, (eds) Simon Donger, with Simon Shepherd and ORLAN Routledge

2010 Studying Plays (third edition), with Mick Wallis Bloomsbury

Amanda Stuart-Fisher

2008 Introduction and ed. Theatre as Witness: Three Testimonial Plays from South Africa by Yael Farber Oberon Books

2009 ‘Bearing Witness: The Position of Theatre Makers in the Telling of Trauma’ in The Applied Theatre Reader ed. Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston Routledge

2011 'That’s who I’d be, if I could sing!’, in Studies in Theatre and Performance, (ed) Derek Paget, Intellect Ltd

Liselle Terret

2009 ‘Who’s got the Power? Performance and Self-Advocacy for People with Learning Difficulties’ in The Applied Theatre Reader ed. Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston Routledge

Gareth White

2009 ‘Odd Anonymised Needs: Punchdrunk's masked spectator’ in Modes of Spectating, ed. Alison Oddey and Christine White Intellect

2010 ‘Devising and Advocacy: The Red Room's Unstated’, in Devising in Process, (eds) J. Smart and A. Mermikides Palgrave

ML White

2009 ‘Ethnography 2.0: writing with digital video’, in Ethnography and Education 4:3 Routledge

Forthcoming and Contracted

Paul Barker

2010 Commission for work for solo clarinet in the series of chamber music theatre for Joan Lluna, London May

2012 Transgression No.1 for solo clarinet, to be premiered in Barcelona, Spain, 6 March, 2012

2012 Arts & Wars, Palgrave Macmillan.

2012 A round-table on the opera El Gallo, for 6 actors and 2 string quartets without words, The Theory, Practice and Business of Opera Today conference at Leeds University, 12-14 April 2012'

Zachary Dunbar

2012 ‘Music Theatre’, in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History, (eds) D. Wiles and C. Dymkowski, Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Penny Francis

2011 Puppetry: A reader in theatre practice Palgrave

Lynne Kendrick

2012 Theatre Noise: the sound of performance Cambridge Scholars

Simon Shepherd

Directing: A reader in theatre practice Palgrave

Gareth White

2012 'Actual and Figurative Noise: The potential of audience participation' in Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance (eds). Lynne Kendrick, David Roesner, Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Event Documentation

Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre

Theatre Materials, (ed) Eleanor Margolies (Centre for Excellence in Training Theatre: 2009) Proceedings from and reflections on Central's international Theatre Materials conference (April 2008).

Central Staff, visiting lecturers and research students contributing pieces: Joel Anderson, Cariad Astles, Jessica Bowles, Selina Busby, Ruth Butler, Broderick Chow, Aldona Cunningham, Jon Davison, Gregg Fisher, Jane Heather, Gavin Henderson, Nick Moran, Jane Munro, Alastair Noonan, Keith Orton, Joanna Parker, Karl Rouse, Ayse Tashkiran, Liselle Terret, Caroline Townsend, Gareth White and Nick Wood.