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Items where RCSSD Subject Area is "Political Theatre"

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Book

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

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

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

Fisher, Tony and Katsouraki, Eve (2019) Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780815370994

Fisher, Tony and Katsouraki, Eve (2017) Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy. Performance Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781349950997

Grochala, Sarah (2017) The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London. ISBN 9781472588463

Grochala, Sarah (2009) S-27. Oberon Books, London. ISBN 9781840029307

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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

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Prestwich, Joseph (2025) Staging Germanness in Contemporary British Theatre. Transcript . Legenda. ISBN 978-1-839543-10-4

Book Chapter

Delgado, Maria M. (2026) Introduction: Performance, Justice and Law: The Baltasar Garzón and La Manada (the wolf pack) trials on stage. In: Spanish Verbatim Theatre: Putting Justice on Trial. Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, pp. 1-33.

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

Fisher, Tony (2026) Essay: the law of the theatre. In: Spanish Verbatim Theatre: Putting Justice on Trial. Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, pp. 165-185. ISBN 9781906499211

Fisher, Tony (2017) Chapter 10: On the Performance of ‘Dissensual Speech’. In: Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy. Performance Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 187-208. ISBN 9781349950997

Fisher, Tony (2017) Introduction: Performance and the Tragic Politics of the Agon. In: Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy. Performance Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9781349950997

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

Tony, Fisher (2020) Theatre and its Discontents. In: Play and Democracy, Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge, London, pp. 13-32. ISBN 9780-36764127-6

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

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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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Cornford, Tom (2018) Experiencing Nationlessness: Staging the Migrant Condition in Some Recent British Theatre. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 6 (1). pp. 101-122. ISSN 2195-0164

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

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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 (2018) Performing Anti-Nationalism: Solidarity, Glitter, and No Borders Politics with the Europa Europa Cabaret. Theatre Research International, 43 (1). pp. 25-44. ISSN 0307-8833

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

Fisher, Tony (2026) Tragic Politics and Post Tragedy. Theatre Research International, 51 (2). ISSN 1474-0672 (In Press)

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Fisher, Tony (2021) Arte Político después del Giro Comunicativo. Escritura e Imagen (16). pp. 285-305. ISSN 1885-5687

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Fisher, Tony (2020) Problems of Stasis in My Country: The National Theatre and the Crisis of General Enculturation in Post-Referendum Britain. Performance Research, 24 (8). pp. 125-132. ISSN 1352-8165

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Fisher, Tony (2018) Theatre at the Impasse: Political Theology and Blitz Theatre Group's Late Night. Performance Philosophy Journal, 4 (1). pp. 139-156. ISSN 2057-7176

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Grochala, Sarah (2011) A Form of Ethics: The Disrupted and Misappropriated Story in the Monodramas of Mark Ravenhill. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 18. pp. 141-154. ISSN 2195-0164

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Grochala, Sarah (2014) Going Straight: The Politics of Time and Space in David Eldridge’s Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 2 (1). pp. 145-158. ISSN 2195-0164

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Kendrick, Lynne (2012) Mimesis and Remembrance. Performance Research, 17 (3). pp. 109-113. ISSN 1352-8165

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Nicholson-Sanz, Michelle (2020) The Performance of Water Governance as Cultural Heritage in Peru. Contemporary Theatre Review, 30 (4). pp. 509-524. ISSN Print ISSN 1048-6801 Online ISSN 1477-2264

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

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Parry-Davies, Ella and Larkin, Craig (2019) War Museums in Postwar Lebanon: Memory, Violence, and Performance. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 25 (1). pp. 78-96. ISSN 1353-7113

Radosavljevic, Duska (2012) Sara Kanes's Illyria as the Land of Violent Love: A Balkan Reading of Blasted. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22 (4). pp. 499-511. ISSN 1477-2264

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Radosavljevic, Duska and Rodosthenous, George (2016) Reversing the Process: Investigating Multi-Disciplinary Compositional Practices in The Fall of Icarus [2009]. Theatre Topics, 26 (1). pp. 105-116. ISSN 1054-8378

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Rushe, Sinéad and Kemp, Margaret Laurena (2021) AntigoneNOW: Mourning and Connection Across 4 Time Zones. American Theatre.

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Six, Tom (2025) Abolish the Stage: Reflecting on Race and Theatre in Tambo and Bones. Contemporary Theatre Review Print ISSN 1048-6801 Online ISSN 1477-2264, 34 (3). pp. 404-409.

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Six, Tom (2025) No One Escapes: thoughts on coloniality, peace and martyrdom after watching Khalid Abdalla’s 'Nowhere'. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 46 (1). pp. 170-176. ISSN 2040-0616

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White, Gareth (2009) The On Theatre Project: Social and Political Theatre and the Notion of the 'Theatre Essay', with On Theatre's Mick Gordon. In: The On Theatre Project, 3rd November 2009, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. (Unpublished)

Thesis

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

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Ronan, Joanna Josephine (2018) Capital, Cooperation and Creating Performance: Blood Water Theatre Develops Ownership in Collaborative Theatre Practice. 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.

Ziemilski, Wojciech (2025) Now you know! Truth claims in Polish documentary theatre. Doctoral thesis, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

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