Drama and Theatre News
The Drama Department has a strong presence in the wider academic and theatre community and here is where you can keep in touch with our latest activities:
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- The research of departmental staff in contemporary British theatre was well-represented at a recent international conference on Nation, Nationhood and Theatre organised by the German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in English (CDE), held at the University of Reading (29 June-2 July).
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- 06/07/2017
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- Alumna Amy Batty (Drama & Theatre Studies 2015) appears in The Stage talking about her experience on the Bristol Old Vic stage management MA, and working with Julian Glover (of Star Wars/James Bond/Indiana Jones/Harry Potter/Game of Thrones fame) on a new BOV production of Julius Caesar.
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- 16/06/2017
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- The Oxford Union is "the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford". Very few debates, however, have been as eclectic as yesterday's event, which featured our very own Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies Liz Schafer facing an opposition that included indie-grime rapper and MC Big Narstie.
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- 05/05/2017
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- Alumni theatre company By Jove, headed by artistic director and doctoral researcher David Bullen, presents "HERE SHE COMES" - an epic poem based on The Bacchae. Written and performed by SJ Brady with music by Vivienne Youel, both Drama Department alumnae.
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- 20/04/2017
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- Dr David Overend directs a new play by Rob Drummond for the National, which runs from 11 to 28 August at the Dorfman Theatre.
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- 20/04/2017
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- James Pidgeon (BA English and Drama 2009) has gone from strength to strength in the last eight years, from SU President here at Royal Holloway to the Globe, Battersea Arts Centre, and the National. Recently, he's served as Programme Manager, Producer and Deputy Director at Shoreditch Town Hall, who have just appointed him as Director.
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- 30/03/2017
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- Academics from Royal Holloway, University London, have been taking part in the Inside Out festival, hosted by Times Higher Education, curated and produced by the Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE).
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- 27/03/2017
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- Royal Holloway is ranked 14th in the world and 6th in the UK for performing arts in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017.
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- 15/03/2017
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- Our third-year students have reached the finals of the London Student Drama Festival 2017!This rigorously-judged annual festival sees Drama societies from universities across the UK compete with their own original devised piece.
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- 13/03/2017
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- Matthew Isaac Cohen, Professor of International Theatre, has been seconded by Yale on account of being the world's leading expert on Indonesian puppetry. Professor Cohen studied wayang kulit in the puppetry department of the conservatoire Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta in Indonesia, received a PhD in anthropology from Yale University, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in The Netherlands and taught at the University of Glasgow before joining Royal Holloway in 2005. He is the Director of Royal Holloway's Centre for Asian Theatre and Dance.
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- 22/02/2017