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✨ Announcing 3 PhD Studentships within Royal Holloway funded by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards ✨

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Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.

Sending lots of luck and best wishes to those waiting for exam results tomorrow!

At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you.

I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨

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We've recorded our highest result in the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) since 2017, with 85% of postgraduate researchers rating their overall experience positively.

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Hostesses are apparently doomed so that rules out my Plan B. 🤷‍♂️

Two great new additions to @methuendrama.bsky.social’s Student Editions series: Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden) & Kwame Kwei-Armah’s ‘Beneatha’s Place’ (introduced by Oladipo Agboluaje) 👏👏
Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions

[COLL] 19-21.06.25 / Konstanz
New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre
5 RADAC members (@anjahartl.bsky.social, X. Lemoine, @chris-megson.bsky.social, A. Rousseau & @ecco0210.bsky.social) participate in the annual congress of our sister society, CDE!
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In everyone some kind of artist is hiding. ~CG Jung, 𝘊.𝘎. 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social shared the results of their creative collab today with stagings of (pics 1-4) Henrik Ibsen’s WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, Eugene O’Neill’s THE HAIRY APE, Sam Steiner’s LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, and Lucy Prebble’s THE EFFECT. Bravo to all! 🙌✨

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of the 2nd week of their creative collaboration. Performances today (pics 1-3): Chris Bush’s FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN, Edward Albee’s THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? & Patrick Hamilton’s GASLIGHT. A fantastic day! 👏

For no particular reason, the change from a Franciscan to an Augustinian Pope has reminded me of the line in Frasier when Niles stands in for him in his show.

“While Frasier is a Freudian, I am a Jungian - so there’ll be no blaming mother today”. #leoxiv

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of their creative collaboration over the next three Fridays. First up today (pics 1-3): scenes from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s EMILIA, Ella Hickson’s SWIVE [ELIZABETH], & Caryl Churchill’s LOVE AND INFORMATION. Terrific! 👏👏

Just landing in the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social! Philip McMahon’s powerful and life-affirming ‘Once Before I Go’, with a terrific introduction from Fintan Walsh that includes an interview with McMahon. ✨

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There are now 100+ plays in the Methuen Drama Student Editions series and these are just some of the latest publications! Proud to be one of the series editors - there’s much more to come! @methuendrama.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Delighted to be giving this lecture (online) this week to research students of Modern British Drama and English Literature/Linguistics at Chungbuk National University in South Korea.

The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏

Primavera! ✨❤️

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the (psyche) soul. ~James Hillman, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴

I've discovered quite a few times that when I feel the least effective or prepared, the moment of connection happens that makes all the difference. I'm always grateful for your presence on here.

Day 2 of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social!
On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏

From gig theatre to Greek tragedy and multimedia performance. Scenes from the fantastic first day of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social. More tomorrow! ✨✨✨

Very sorry to hear this. A huge loss.

Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏

Carl Jung, reading him will change you

The latest addition to the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social is now out! Willy Russell’s classic hit ‘Blood Brothers’ with a smart and insightful new introduction from editor Rebecca Hillman. 👏
More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...

On Sunday, as light fades to dusk in the hallowed week of the Ides of March, the statue on the roof of the London Palladium raises her staff and summons Luna, the moon goddess, to the delight of applauding crowds across the capital. ✨👏👏✨

I should have posted this a while back but … the latest issue of JCDE is out! It’s a great pleasure to be on the editorial team of this journal and there’s a strong line up of essays and reviews in this new issue! 👌✨

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Hosted by @royalholloway.bsky.social, the Platform journal is dedicated to publishing the work of doctoral, postdoc & entry-level academics in theatre & performance. The latest issue, on the theme of 'Gatherings', is out now, edited by Milo Harries & Grace Joseph. Bravo! www.platform-gatherings.com

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It’s 20 years since Howard Barker published his bracing polemic on theatre and death, and the necessity of tragedy in a culture of relentless death denial. It’s a wonderful read: taut, austere, a vision of the inexhaustible theatrical image.