Theatre History & Styles

Innovations in Socially Distant Performance is a project which studies the aesthetics, philosophies, tools, and artists who are transforming the fields of virtual live performance and socially distant productions. This continually updated website is a place to create community, share information, inspire invention, and document the expanding art form, with an emphasis on sharing the tools and techniques of a reimagined trade.

A collection of the most significant plays/performances written and performed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and among their diasporas since 2000.

Originally an exhibition, now an archive exploring Black British performance histories via archives, arts and heritage education.

Future Histories is an independent archive for African, Asian and Performing Arts in the UK.

This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy and realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have earned the right to full critical review. Matt Hargrave, 2015.

This edited collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation and find points of connection across a range of performative forms including community theatre, live art, applied theatre, one-to-one performance and marathon running. Anna Harpin & Helen Nicholson, 2017

This is a collection of international essays describing the rich diversity of theatre and drama work in prison related contexts. Michael Balfour (ed), 2004

This book addresses the rarely examined expertise of applied theatre artists, aiming to shed light on their particular skills and qualities. Kay Hepplewhite, 2020.

This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices (with a focus on participatory theatre) that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. Alice O'Grady (ed), 2017