Cultural Histories of Performance

Our research explores cultural histories of performance, towards understanding how and with what effects performance is made, shown and supported, and the ways the environments in which performance exists conditions its understanding and reception, in the past and in the present. 

It includes work on:

• Cities, venues and public space (Arora, Boyle, Fallow, Harvie, Heritage, McKinnie)
• Early modern drama: then and now (Escolme, Fallow, Silverstone)
• Theatre and theatricality in the nineteenth century (Monks, Watt Smith, Ridout)
• Histories and theories of visual culture (Arora, Boyle, Johnson, Watt Smith)
• The senses, emotions and climates in performance (Ridout, Watt Smith, Welton, Woods)
• Social justice, social movements, social change (Adebayo, Boyle, Campbell, Heritage, Inchley, McAvinchey)