This chapter, from The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (ed. Mark Evans and Rick Kemp, 2016), situates the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq within the twentieth century tradition of the Theatre Studio as a site and process of training and experimental practice. ht…[Read more]

This article, from a Shakespeare Studies forum on Skill edited by Lyn Tribble, reflects on the way in which actors (mainly of Shakespeare) in the mid-twentieth century understood, developed and communicated their skill by comparing their accounts with those of skilled manual workers active at the same time. It argues, following Tim Ingold, for an…[Read more]

Reflections on the significance of the sudden announcement, in autumn 2016, of the imminent departure of Emma Rice as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. Contemporary Theatre Review 27.1, Backpages.