Warning: Contains brief discussion of suicide
Engendering the Stage: Making space for an inclusive performance history
24 November, 2021
In: Conversations, Culture, History, Identity, Literature, Performance, Theatre
Tagged: bodies, diverse, early modern, Gender, Performance, performance culture, Roehampton, Shakespeare, Theatre, theatre history, theatremaking, women
We’re joined by the project team behind new research project Engendering the Stage, who are re-investigating the evidence base for early modern theatre, and using these findings to make space for an inclusive performance history that involves female-identified and gender-non-conforming performers as well as performers of colour. We discuss failed performance, the porousness of theatre, the politics of domestic performance, rope-dancing, tumblers, sword-dancing, performing masculinity, dynamic femininity, androgynous clothing, the famous ‘Jumping Judy’, cocoanut shies, forbidden students, The Roaring Girl, the Fortune playhouse, female shareholders, archival research in an age of Covid, practice-as-research, and more…
People
- Lucy Munro
- Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, King's College London
- Clare McManus
- Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Roehampton
- Oliver Lewis
- PhD Candidate, University of Roehampton
- Erin Julian
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Engendering the Stage
- Mel Harrison
- PhD Candidate, King's College London
- Emma Whipday
- A Bit Lit host