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Hostile Environments: Theatrical Conventions and the Law

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Owen, Louise (2024) Hostile Environments: Theatrical Conventions and the Law. LawArt, 5. pp. 16-32. ISSN ISSN 2724-654X

Abstract

This article queries how theatrical conventions intersect with the law through analysis of two contemporary productions – a revival of Agatha Christie’s 1953 courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall, 2017-date) directed by Lucy Bailey, and a new contemporary documentary performance This Is Who I Am (touring, 2017-date) presented by ice&fire theatre company, touring to universities, community organisations and schools. Each of these productions in different ways thematises legal process and immigration. Drawing on scholarship in theatre and legal studies, the article analyses their visual rhetorics, contextualising them in relation to the rise and commercialisation of immersive experience, to argue that the British legislative construct of the ‘hostile environment’ bears a logical resemblance to immersivity in performance.

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