Platform's newest issue, entitled ‘Theatres of Labour’, will be published this month. We invite you to the online launch event!
We are pleased to announce that the newest issue of Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts vol. 14 no. 1&2 entitled ‘Theatres of Labour’ will be published this month and invite you to join us for the online launch event. This issue interrogates the various entanglements of theatre and labour and features contributions from emerging scholars in the UK and beyond.
The launch will take place on Zoom, 19 November 2020, at 7.30 pm.
The event will feature:
- Introduction to the issue by Dr Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary, University of London)
- A performance by Nefeli Kentoni (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)
- Opportunities to get to know other postgraduate researchers
Platform is a peer-reviewed journal published out of Royal Holloway, University of London and has been devoted to publishing the work of postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers, and entry-level academics in fields related to theatre and the performing arts for 14 years.The launch event is a great opportunity to learn more about Platform and get an idea of current post-graduate research. All are welcome.
Drinks and snacks encouraged!
Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
vol. 14 no. 1&2
‘Theatres of Labour’
Includes the following contributions:
Tim Cowbury (Royal Holloway, University of London) Messing With the Wrong Guise? Creating Subversive Work in a “Creative Economy” that Celebrates Subversion
Kirstin Smith (University of East Anglia) On Being Cast: Identity Work
Raimund Rosarius (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Craft Remodelling Labour? The Craft Metaphor in Actor Training and the Actor’s Future Labour
Steyn Bergs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Recalcitrance is Not Yet Resistance: Post-Fordist Labour and Incorporation in the Work of Sofia Caesar
Hansol Oh (The Graduate Center, CUNY) ‘Doing Housework Doing Laundry’: Spectacularization of Labor in Caroline, or Change
Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal (Birkbeck, University of London) Producing ‘The Joy of Pret’: Theatres of (Emotional) Labour in the Service Industry
Beth M. Weinstein (University of Arizona) Photo Essay: Installing Performances of Spatial Labour
Martin Young (Queen Mary, University of London) Work | Strike | Dance: The Paris Opera Ballet and the 2019 Pensions Dispute
Angeliki Roussou (Edinburgh College of Art) and Shona Macnaughton (Independent) Institutional Care and the Feminine Aquatic: An Interview with Shona Macnaughton
Laura Kressly (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) Unpaid and Low-paid Labour on the Fringe: a look at Orange Skies Theatre
Antonia Tretter (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) ‘Work, work, work…’ Limits and Potentials of Dramaturgical Labour in Municipal Theatres
Laurel V. McLaughlin (Bryn Mawr College) and Leah Modigliani (Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University) ‘Critical Plagiarism’ as Discursive Labour: A Conversation with Leah Modigliani
Performance and Book Reviews from Olivia Lamont Bishop (Royal Holloway, University of London), Heidi Łucja Liedke (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Satkirti Sinha (Royal Holloway, University of London), and Alessandro Simar (Queen Mary, University of London)
We look forward to seeing you at the launch event!
Meg Cunningham and Clio Unger, issue editors
Platform Editorial Board:
Meg Cunningham, Gwyneth Donlon, Josephine Leask, Lianna Mark, Lisa Moravec, Clio Unger, Alex Watson
