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Book

Farrier, Stephen and Edward, Mark, eds. (2021) Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories. Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2. Methuen Drama Engage, 2 . Bloomsbury Methuen, London. ISBN 9781350104365

Anderson, Joel (2015) Theatre and Photography. Theatre& . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230276710

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Bartley, Sarah, McAvinchey, Caoimhe, Dean, Deborah and Greene, Anne-marie (2024) Clean Break Theatre Company. Elements in Women Theatre Makers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009525855 (In Press)

Boston, Jane (2009) Breath in Action: The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London. ISBN 9781843109426

Boston, Jane (2018) Voice: Readings in Theatre practice. Readings in Theatre Practice . Palgrave, London. ISBN 9781137301949

Boston, Jane and J. Clifford, Turner (2007) Voice and Speech in the Theatre. Metheun, London. ISBN 9780713681888

Brown, Ross (2009) Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice. Readings in Theatre Practice . Palgrave Macmillian, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230551879

Bryon, Experience (2018) Performing Interdisciplinarity: Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138678859

Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2011) Performing Herself: Autobiography and Fanny Kelly's Dramatic Recollections. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719079214

Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2009) Treading the Bawds: Actresses and Playwrights on the Late-Stuart Stage. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719072512

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Chow, Broderick D.V. (2020) The Dynamic Tensions Physical Culture Show: A Counter-Genealogy of Built Masculinities (REF 2021 Practice Research Submission). The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. ISBN 978-1-8383967-4-9

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Chow, Broderick D.V. (2024) Muscle works: physical culture and the performance of masculinity. Performance Works . Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, United States of America. ISBN 9780810147362

Cornford, Tom (2020) Theatre Studios: A Political History of Ensemble Theatre-Making. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138185647

Cornford, Tom, Fleming, Cass, Rushe, Sinéad, Oram, Daron, Caoimhe, McAvinchey and Roanna, Mitchell (2020) Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-First Century: New Pathways. Methuen Drama . Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781474273213

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Elswit, Kate (2020) Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (REF 2021 Practice Research Submission). The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. ISBN 978-1-8383967-7-0

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Elswit, Kate (2020) From ‘Future Memory’: A Triangulation of History, Theory and Practice (REF 2021 Practice Research Submission). The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. ISBN 978-1-8383967-6-3

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Elswit, Kate (2018) Theatre & Dance. Theatre& . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137605740

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Elswit, Kate (2014) Watching Weimar Dance. Oxford Studies in Dance Theory . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199844838

Fisher, Tony (2023) The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-7016-3

Fisher, Tony (2017) Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107182158

Grochala, Sarah (2020) The Theatre of Rupert Goold: Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Writing. Methuen Drama . Methuen Drama, London. ISBN 9781350090736

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Mullan, Sarah Jane and Bartley, Sarah (2024) Crisis theatre and the living newspaper. Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political . Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements), Cambridge. ISBN 9781009525817

Owen, Louise (2024) Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain. Performance Works . Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL. ISBN 9780810146044

Paxton, Naomi (2018) The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage. Methuen Drama, London. ISBN 9781350082984

Radosavljevic, Duska (2013) The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415535304

Radosavljevic, Duska (2013) Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230343115

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Rushe, Sinéad (2020) Concert (REF 2021 Practice Research Submission). The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. ISBN 978-1-8383968-6-2

Rushe, Sinéad (2019) Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London. ISBN 9781408156889

Stuart Fisher, Amanda (2020) Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies. Theatre: Theory, Practice, Performance . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526145741

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Tashkiran, Ayse (2020) Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre: Conversations on Craft. Methuen Drama, 1 . Bloomsbury, London and New York. ISBN 9781350054462

Book Chapter

Astles, Cariad (2018) Presence and Memory: Tadeusz Kantor’s Living Puppet Theatre 1. In: Tadeusz Kantor’s Memory: Other Pasts, Other Futures. Institute of Grotowski, London. ISBN 9781910203064

Brown, Ross (2015) Changing Technologies of Stage Performance: Sound Design. In: Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, Volume 2: 1600 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1460-1467. ISBN 9781107057258

Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2014) The Gerbini Letters, or, A Tale of Two Mothers. In: Stage Mothers: Women, Work and the Theater 1660-1830. Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, pp. 233-251. ISBN 9781611486032

Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2009) The Mystery of Revival: Performance and Reception of Susanna Centlivre on the Modern Stage. In: The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne, pp. 283-299. ISBN 9781443801737

Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2012) Re: 'Enactment'. In: Cambridge Companion to Theatre History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 281-298. ISBN 9780521766364

Bush-Bailey, Gilli, Davis, Jim, Normington, Katie and Bratton, Jacky (2010) Researching Theatre History and Historiography. In: Research Methods in Theatre and Performance. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748641581

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Cornford, Tom (2022) Directors: Organisation, Authorship, and Social Production. In: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)

Cornford, Tom (2016) Jacques Lecoq and the Studio Tradition. In: The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq. Routledge, Abingdon, 43 -51. ISBN 9781138818422

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Cornford, Tom (2019) Michael Chekhov: Directing an Actors' Theatre. In: Russian Theatre in Practice: The Director's Guide. Performance Books . Bloomsbury, London, pp. 95-107. ISBN 9781474284431

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Cornford, Tom (2018) Willful Distraction: Katie Mitchell, Auteurism and the Canon. In: The Theatre of Katie Mitchell. 4x45 . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 72-92. ISBN 9781138600058

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Cornford, Tom and Barker, Roberta (2018) Tyrone Guthrie. In: The Great European Stage Directors: Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie. The Great European Stage Directors, 3 . Metheun Drama, London, pp. 115-162. ISBN 9781474254113

Dodi, Simon (2021) Camp Can Be Such a Drag: Approaches to Understanding Camp and Drag. In: Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2. Methuen Drama.

Elswit, Kate (2012) Back Again? Valeska Gert's Exiles. In: New German Dance Studies. University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, pp. 113-129. ISBN 9780252036767

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Elswit, Kate (2017) The Micropolitics of Exchange: Exile and Otherness After the Nation. In: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 417-438. ISBN 9780199928187

Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2024) Radical accounting and the edges of archives: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's historical data. In: Edges of Ailey. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 9780300278842

Elswit, Kate and Nair, Rani (2018) Letters to Lila and Dramaturg's Notes on Future Memory: Inheriting Dance's Alternative Histories. In: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 177-214. ISBN 9780199314201

Fisher, Tony (2019) Politics of City and Nation: Tragic Politics and the Incommunicable Experience. In: A Cultural History of Tragedy In the Modern Age. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 109-126. ISBN 978-1-4742-8809-5

Lease, Bryce (2023) Transembodiment as translation: staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive. In: Performance and translation in a global age. Theatre and performance theary . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9781009296816

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Oram, Daron (2020) Chapter Three The Expressive Voice in Performance: Chekhov’s Techniques for Voice and Singing in Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-First Century: New Pathways. In: Michael Chekhov Technique in the Twenty-First Century: New Pathways. Bloomsbury: Methuen, London, pp. 93-106.

Owen, Louise (2024) Government, Policy, and Censorship in Post-war British Theatre. In: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945. Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 209-228. ISBN 9781108377850

Paxton, Naomi (2019) 'Very Much Alive and Kicking': The Actresses' Franchise League From 1914-1928. In: Stage Women 1900-1950: Female Theatre Workers and Professional Practice. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 118-137. ISBN 9781526100702

Radosavljevic, Duska (2015) Kneehigh Theatre. In: British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream 1995 - 2014. Methuen Drama, London, pp. 155-178. ISBN 9781408177273

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Six, Tom (2025) A Background of Slog: Work and the British Theatre and Performance, 1950-99. In: Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Theatre. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 233-244. ISBN 9781003046691

Tashkiran, Ayse (2018) Chapter 25 in The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq. In: The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq. Routledge Companion, 1 . Routledge, Oxford, pp. 227-235. ISBN 9781138611849

Article

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Abrams, Joshua (2020) Presidential Address to the 2019 ATHE Conference. Theatre Topics, 30 (1). pp. 11-15. ISSN 1054-8378

Acton, Kelsie and Erlikh, Sydney (2025) Contrary Dancing Bodymind: Impairment Elision and the Binaries of IDD Dance. RACAR:, 49 (2). pp. 129-139.

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Anderson, Joel (2019) Snapshots on Theatre Photography. kød – konkrétne o divadle, March.

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Anderson, Joel (2019) Theatre Photography Between Theatre and Performance. Focales, 3 2019 (2019). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2556-5125

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Anderson, Joel (2011) Theatrical Photography, Photographic Theatre and the Still: The Photography of Sophie Moscoso at the Theatre du Soleil. About Performance, 8. pp. 163-178. ISSN 1324-6089

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Anderson, Joel and Leister, Wiebke (2019) The Theatre of Photography - Special Edition of Photography and Culture. Photography and Culture, 11 (2). pp. 121-235. ISSN 1751-4517

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Anderson, Joel and Leister, Wiebke (2019) The Theatre of Photography: Dialogues. Photography & Culture, 11 (2). pp. 121-138. ISSN 1751-4517

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Astles, Cariad (2020) The UNIMA Research Commission. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 11 (1 & 2). pp. 197-199. ISSN 2040-2457

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Boston, Jane (2019) In Memory Of A Radical: Cicely Berry. Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 4 (No 1). pp. 55-70. ISSN 2057-035X

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Boston, Jane (2019) Pitch and Gender in Voice Training: New Methodological. Theatre Dance and Performance Training, 10 (3). pp. 332-336. ISSN 1944-3919

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Boston, Jane (2014) Poetic Text in Contemporary Voice Training: A Repositioning. Voice and Speech Review, 8 (2). pp. 131-148. ISSN 2326-8271

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Bush-Bailey, Gilli (2014) 'Women Like Us'? Comedy Studies, 3 (2). pp. 151-159. ISSN 2040-6118

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Chow, Broderick D.V. (2020) Epistemology of the Locker Room: A Queer Glance at the Physical Culture Archive. Contemporary Theatre Review Print ISSN 1048-6801 Online ISSN 1477-2264, 31 (1/2). (In Press)

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Cornford, Tom (2015) Acting, Skill and Artistry. Shakespeare Studies, 43. pp. 88-98. ISSN 0582-9399

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Cornford, Tom (2017) Backpages: The Editing of Emma Rice. Contemporary Theatre Review, 27 (1). pp. 134-137. ISSN 1048-6801

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Cornford, Tom (2020) Creating Something that Feels Alive: Sound Design for Katie Mitchell. Interview with Donato Wharton. Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 (2). pp. 245-252. ISSN 1048-6801

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Cornford, Tom (2020) Editorial. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40 (2). pp. 125-127. ISSN 1468-2761

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Cornford, Tom (2020) Katie Mitchell and the Technologies of the Realist Theatre. Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 (2). pp. 168-192. ISSN 1048-6801

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Cornford, Tom (2019) The Racist Case for Diversity? Contemporary Theatre Review, 28 (4). pp. 553-556. ISSN 1048-6801

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Cornford, Tom (2018) Review: The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov. Theatre Research International, 43 (3). pp. 339-341. ISSN 0307-8833

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Cornford, Tom and Svich, Caridad (2020) Introduction: Katie Mitchell's Theatre. Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 (2). pp. 137-150. ISSN 1048-6801

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Delgado, Maria M. (2018) Disappearing Acts: On Analysing Creative Practice in Spain. Hispanic Research Journal, 19 (2). pp. 196-213. ISSN 1468-2737

Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2026) If the archive can’t consent: Reimagining motion data and AI ethics for dance’s embodied histories. Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, 2. pp. 1-18.

Elswit, Kate (2009) Accessing Unison in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility. Art Journal, 68 (2). pp. 50-61. ISSN 0004-3249

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Elswit, Kate (2009) “Berlin … Your Dance Partner Is Death”. TDR/The Drama Review, 53 (1). pp. 73-92. ISSN 1054-2043

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Elswit, Kate (2014) Inheriting Dance’s Alternative Histories. Dance Research Journal, 46 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 0149-7677

Elswit, Kate (2008) Petrified? Some Thoughts on Practical Research and Dance Historiography. Performance Research, 13 (1). pp. 61-69. ISSN 1352-8165

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Elswit, Kate (2024) The Scale of Research Has Already Changed. Theatre Journal, 76 (2). E26. ISSN 1086-332X

Elswit, Kate (2008) The Some of the Parts: Prosthesis and Function in Bertolt Brecht, Oskar Schlemmer, and Kurt Jooss. Modern Drama, 51 (3). pp. 389-410. ISSN 0026-7694

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2020) Dance History and Digital Humanities Meet at the Archives: An Interim Project Report on Dunham’s Data. Dance Research, 38 (2). pp. 289-295. ISSN 0264-2875

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2019) Dance Touring and Embodied Data: Some Approaches to Katherine Dunham’s Movement on the Move. Current Research in Digital History, 2. ISSN 2637-5923

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2020) Katherine Dunham's Global Method and the Embodied Politics of Dance's Everyday. Theatre Survey, 61 (3). pp. 305-330. ISSN 1475-4533

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2016) Mapping Movement on the Move: Dance Touring and Digital Methods. Theatre Journal, 68 (4). pp. 575-596. ISSN 0192-2882

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2022) Visceral Data for Dance Histories: Katherine Dunham’s People, Places, and Pieces. TDR/The Drama Review, 66 (1). pp. 37-61. ISSN 1054-2043

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Leister, Wiebke and Anderson, Joel (2019) Pro-photographic Gestures. Photography and Culture, 11 (2). pp. 237-243. ISSN 1751-4517

Conference or Workshop Item

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Boston, Jane (2012) The Physical Voice in the Moving Body. In: The Physical Voice in the Moving Body, November 2012, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. (Unpublished)

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Naylor, Ben (2018) Advice to the Players: Peter Hall, Shakespeare and Antipathy to the Method. In: John Barton and Peter Hall Memorial Conference, 8/9/2018, Rose Theatre, Kingston. (Unpublished)

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Naylor, Ben (2018) Shakespeare’s Professional Guilt: Acting, Monstrosity and the Devil. In: Perdition Catch My Soul: Shakespeare, Hell and Damnation, 8/12/2018, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. (Unpublished)

Show/Exhibition

Other

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Elswit, Kate and Bench, Harmony (2018) Dunham's Data Website and Research Blog. UNSPECIFIED.

Farrier, Stephen (2018) Theater, Queer - An Entry In: Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, 1st Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, part of Macmillan Reference USA,, USA.

Thesis

Campus, Filomena (2026) Liberate Rame! Franca Rame and the politics of theatre-making. Doctoral thesis, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Zhang, Yi (2026) Remaking Yangbanxi : palimpsests of revolutionary memory and the politics of remembering. Doctoral thesis, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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Naylor, Ben, Healey, Anna and Wyver, John (2019) Cymbeline 19. [Video] (Unpublished)

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