Directing

Mark Swetz

Abstract

In Blind Spectatorship: Directing, Dramaturgy and Non-Visual Accessibility, there are three questions being addressed:

Jo Ronan

Abstract

Is collective ownership of theatre rooted in selected models of theatre production or is it the aspiration of some theatre makers yet to be fully actualised?

Alejandro Postigo

Abstract

My research focuses on questions of cultural identity and the formation of Spanish Music Theatre. Music Theatre in Spain has existed since olden times, but what we know today as Music Theatre is a completely new and unknown imported genre that has suddenly become a great success in the country. Essentially big foreign companies have been translating the originally English written musicals, leaving in place the original production values and the Anglo-Saxon cultural trends.

Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Name
Peter McAllister, BA, PGDip, MA

Peter trained at the University of London, the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, and at the Central School of Speech & Drama. He was awarded a British Council - Polish Government scholarship to study theatre in Poland where he was attached to Andrzej Wajda’s celebrated production of Antigone.

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Postgraduate Courses›Research Degrees
Undergraduate Courses›BA (Hons) Acting›Acting
Position
Senior Lecturer, Acting
Qualifications
BA Hons (London)
ADVS (Central)
Teaching Areas
Acting
Directing
Email
peter.mcallister@cssd.ac.uk

Catherine Alexander, BA

Name
Catherine Alexander, BA

Catherine Alexander has taught at the Central School of Speech & Drama since 2006. She trained at L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq (including two years at the Laboratory of Movement Studies) and participated in the National Theatre Studio Director's Programme.

She is an Associate Director for Complicite, Artistic Director of Quiconque and has worked nationally and internationally as a performer, director and teacher for 15 years.

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Photo of Dissecting Anatomies
Photo of Hideaway - Quiconque
Photo of "Not as seen on TV"
Photo of Quiconque Dublin
Photo of The Boy from Centreville 2008
Photo of The Elephant Vanishes
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Undergraduate Courses›BA (Hons) Acting›Collaborative and Devised Theatre
Position
Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader, Collaborative and Devised Theatre
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Drama (First Class, Manchester University)
Certificat Fin des Etudes (Ecole Jacques Lecoq)
Teaching Areas
Acting
Collaborative and devised theatre
Directing
Integrated design practices
Email
catherine.alexander@cssd.ac.uk

Shaun May

In my thesis, I want to use the work of Heidegger, specifically his ‘fundamental ontology’, to build a phenomenology of two areas of humour. First, the comic failure (of body and objects) and second, anthropomorphic humour.

Deirdre McLaughlin

Abstract

Emotional Memory: An Exploration of the Actor’s Inner Life On the Stage and In the Mind investigates the following questions: