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Meyerhold and the Russian Avant-garde
Michael Craig is a documentary film maker living and working in Moscow. He moved to Moscow twelve years ago to make films and write. Over ...
Fluid Ecologies
Dr Joseph Dunne’s practice is rooted in site-based performance and documentation and archiving strategies. This article is a précis of his residencies in Finland and Greenland as part of Tracing the Pathway’s Fluid Ecologies project. We are four bodies, each unique and fixed, yet porous. We are one shifting whole – an ecology dependent on […]
Movement and the Moscow Art Theatre
This article was written by Peter Bramley, Head of Movement at Rose Bruford College and the Artistic Director of Pants on Fire theatre company. It marks the culmination of a week-long Movement conference at the school of The Moscow Art Theatre and offers personal insight into contemporary Stanislavski training in Moscow. Moscow, April 2007. On […]
The 4.48 Experience
This article was written by Alex Mangold. Alex trained in Germany and is currently conducting PhD research on the theatre of Sarah Kane at Aberystwyth University. He works as a director and as a translator of such playwrights as Howard Barker and Richard Bean into German. Notes on a final year drama production Ever since […]
Fast and Dirty or In Deep: What Is Creative Research?
Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, www.finkennedy.co.uk. A slightly longer version of this article was given as a paper at the Between Fact and Fiction Conference, Birmingham University, 5th September 2007. I am a research-led writer. Someone recently described me as a “method writer” and before that someone else called me an “investigative playwright”. But […]