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Category: Performance and Theatre Research Group

Dr Margherita Laera launches new Performing International Plays website

By Matthew Brears | 15 March 2021

After 18 months of development, the Performing International Plays platform launched this week, aiming to provide teaching and learning resources for students and teachers of … Read more

Olly Double to speak at London Business School’s TedX event

By | 21 January 2021

Head of Comedy and Popular Performance at the School of Arts, Olly Double, will be speaking at the upcoming TedX event hosted by London Business … Read more

Dr Margherita Laera publishes report on contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices in Europe

By Matthew Brears | 08 January 2021

By evaluating and comparing cultural practices and institutional habits, Margherita suggests best practices for a sustainable field. The study was funded by Creative Europe and … Read more

BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine premieres ‘I Feel Different’ film based on Professor Nicola Shaughnessy’s AHRC research into autism

By | 24 November 2020

Professor Nicola Shaughnessy’s extensive research into autism and creative practice is one of nine selected Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects which have been made into … Read more

Performance and Theatre Research Group upcoming events

By | 17 November 2020

The School of Arts Performance and Theatre Research Group are delighted to invite you to their upcoming live events, kicking off with Dr Olu Taiwo … Read more

Olly Double publishes on Little Tich

By Michael | 01 September 2020

Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has just published a chapter in a new collection entitled Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent (Palgrave, … Read more

Online panel discussion ‘British Theatre and the Clown’

By Michael | 27 June 2020

PhD student Nathan Keates, who is studying for a PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research … Read more

Olly Double’s Alternative Comedy reviewed on comedy sites

By Michael | 23 May 2020

Dr Olly Double, has had his recent book Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up (Bloomsbury, 2020), reviewed on the influential comedy websites … Read more

Olly Double on NextUp Comedy livestream

By Michael | 30 April 2020

Dr Oliver Double, Reader in Drama, will be featuring on the NextUp Comedy livestream today, Thursday 30 April 2020, at 10pm. NextUp Comedy is an … Read more

Olly Double on That CI Podcast

By Michael | 29 April 2020

Following on from the publication of his recent book on Alternative Comedy, Dr Oliver Double has featured on the latest edition of That CI Podcast. … Read more

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