TaPRA 2019

Working with Storytelling: From an Aesthetics to an Ethics of Precarity  Notions of precarity have played an important role in my work as a performance storyteller. Specifically, Nicholas Bourriaud’s Precarious Constructions (2009), with its critical foregrounding of ‘speed... Read More →

This liberatory practice which is not one (with apologies to Luce Irigaray)   I’d like to explore the hitherto unexplored past/present/future place of community cultural development (CCD) within the ecology of applied drama practice. CCD is the third term animating (unsettling... Read More →

Apertures of Possibility; labour and value in contemporary applied theatre practice  This exciting call for papers has prompted a consideration of how I notice and articulate the labour that goes into my applied practice. The noticing of this labour has been heightened since... Read More →