Pop music blasting, crowds cheering, ambulance sirens screeching, engines revving: it’s the sound of a city. It’s the sound of…
In what way does theatre either reveal or hide the labour of the actor? Using examples from at least two different performances and using the terms of Marxist analysis discuss how the labour of the actor is either revealed or hidden in the theatre through aspects such as playing style, set, lights, direction, and overall ‘outer frame’ of the performance (marketing, institution, etc).
Featured Image from Wicked If one follows Marx’s definition of a commodity as ‘an object outside us, a thing that…
‘Raise a glass to freedom’: Should actors be allowed to express freedom of speech on the stage, outside of their performance?
Featured Image from Hamilton ‘Is all theatre political?’ is the question famously asked by Michael Kirby in his article ‘On…
According to Fredric Jameson, one of the defining features of late twentieth century culture is its abandonment of modernist ‘depth,’ in favour of an interest in image, surface and symbol. To what extent is this shift seen in the work of Jean Baudrillard and Jorge Luis Borges?
Featured Image entitled Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher In his work The Postmodern Simon Malpas states that ‘For many…
Performance of the body: discuss examples from recent and current body art/live art that you have experienced or studied, and analyse how subjectivities are portrayed, how bodies are posited as subjects and/or objects, and what technologies or theatricalities of presentation are used — keeping in mind also the different & specific gender/culture/ethnicity markers that may be involved in such artistic sittings/citing’s of bodies-in-performance.
Featured Image from Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present Marina Abramović’s 2010 performance art piece The Artist Is Present can…
Censorship on Campus: is it the place of students to decide that what should, or should not, be censored?
Featured Image from Spiked’s Free Speech University Rankings Before we begin, let us cast our minds back to a decade…
How do Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Guatam Malkani’s Londonstani engage with idea of hybridity?
Featured Image by F.H. Townsend, an illustration of Bertha Mason for the second edition of Jane Eyre The notion of…
How can Betty Friedan’s theory of ‘The Feminine Mystique’ be applied to an extract from Marilyn French’s novel The Women’s Room?
Featured Image from YouTube Published in 1963, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique articulately illuminates the discontent position of American woman,…
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