Let Battle Commence: New Writing in 2007
It is well known that British new writing for the theatre has been enjoying an unprecedented boom in recent years. There is now more new writing than at any time before: everywhere you look, both in...
View ArticleFretting at Textual Fetters: Performance and the Playwright within New Writing
Jacqueline Bolton is currently undertaking an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship, studying Dramaturgy and Literary Management at the University of Leeds in conjunction with West Yorkshire...
View ArticleFast and Dirty or In Deep: What Is Creative Research?
Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, www.finkennedy.co.uk. A slightly longer version of this article was given as a paper at the Between Fact and Fiction Conference, Birmingham University, 5th...
View ArticleThe 4.48 Experience
This article was written by Alex Mangold. Alex trained in Germany and is currently conducting PhD research on the theatre of Sarah Kane at Aberystwyth University. He works as a director and as a...
View ArticleParticipatory Arts and the Agile Citizen
By Chris Baldwin This is an extended version of a speech given by Chris Baldwin to The European Cultural Foundation at the University of Leiden in November 2006 (Meeting Title: Artistic Explorations in...
View ArticleMovement and the Moscow Art Theatre
This article was written by Peter Bramley, Head of Movement at Rose Bruford College and the Artistic Director of Pants on Fire theatre company. It marks the culmination of a week-long Movement...
View ArticleKathakali National Tour
The Kala Chethena Kathakali Theatre Company performs for one night at Rose Bruford College during their UK Tour. Booking office opens on 4 September – book early to avoid disappointment “The Kala...
View ArticleKathakali performance celebrates David Bolland Collection
On 14th October 2008 Rose Bruford College hosted a full-scale production by Kala Chethena Kathakali Company. With spectacular costume and make-up a dozen actors and musicians performed the Kathakali...
View ArticleGold-digging: Creating the “Golden Generation” Exhibition at the British Library
Alec Patton is currently developing a new strand of the British Library/University of Sheffield Theatre Archive Project (TAP) focused on embedding oral history in undergraduate education at the...
View ArticleNew Writing in Britain: How Do We Define the Contemporary?
By Aleks Sierz Parody is a literary genre that always means so much more than it says. I’d like to start by talking about one example of parody, a book by Christopher Douglas and Nigel Planer called I...
View ArticleWe Are What We Wear
Performer: Kalamandalam Vijayakumar. Photo: Garry Laybourn.The College’s Research Centre for Multicultural and Intercultural Performance is delighted to be collaborating with the Kala Chethena...
View ArticleWhen Acting Like Children Becomes Acting For Children
By Jeremy Harrison Introduction This paper contains reflections on two research projects documented by Rose Bruford College’s Theatre for Young Audiences Centre in 2011, its inaugural year. It is...
View ArticleLighting Kursk: Creating Immersive Environments, and the Politics of the Real
Hansjörg Schmidt is the Programme Director for Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College. Before joining the College in 2008, he worked as a freelance lighting designer. He graduated with a BA (First...
View ArticleMeyerhold and the Russian Avant-garde
Michael Craig is a documentary film maker living and working in Moscow. He moved to Moscow twelve years ago to make films and write. Over the past few years he has been working on a documentary series...
View ArticleThe Award Winning Actor Anita Dobson in Conversation
The Award Winning Actor Anita Dobson in Conversation Monday 9th February Room C118 18:30-20:00 Anita Dobson is an award winning TV, Film and Theatre actor whose career spans more than 40 years. After...
View ArticleStanislavski Centre/Routledge Annual Lecture 2015
FROM STANISLAVSKI TO TODAY: A GENEALOGY OF ANALYSIS THROUGH ACTION, 1935-2015. Professor David Chambers Professor of Directing, Yale School of Drama The Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College of...
View ArticleContemporary Directions and The Director’s Guild Trust
The Stanislavski Centre is very pleased to announce an important new development for our Contemporary Directions project. This unique project, which explores the changing role of the director in...
View ArticleContemporary Directions: Mike Alfreds (5th May at 18.00)
The Stanislavski Centre presents Contemporary Directions The distinguished British director, Mike Alfreds talks about his work Tuesday 5th May, 18.00 to 19.30 Room C118 Described by Ian...
View ArticleWho Actually Behaves Like That?
On Monday 18th May, as part of our series of events exploring the role of the drector in 21st century theatre, The Stanislavski Centre welcomed Professor Vladimir Mirodan, Research Leader ,Drama and...
View ArticleProfessor Andrei Malaev Babel joins Advisory Board
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Malaev Babel has joined the Advisory Board of the Centre. Acknowledged as a major authority on the work of the actor and director Yevgeny Vakhtangov,...
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