The Performance Research Group is delighted to welcome Lume Teatro who are visiting from Brazil this week to lead an artistic residency featuring workshops for our MA, MFA, and PhD students. LUME are an award-winning theatre group who are at…
Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer and PRG member, Zodwa Nyoni, and director Monique Touko. Tracing the private lives of the people who fought to liberate Africa, it explores why their story remains relevant…
Drs. Patrick Campbell and Andrea Maciel presented Cross Pollination, a collaborative performance lecture at the one-day symposium, Sweating the Archive, curated by Adriana La Selva as part of her PhD research on the Odin Teatret archive and its transmission processes. …
Members of the PRG, Josh Edelman and Michael Pinchbeck were involved in making immersive show, Granny Jackson’s Dead, in January 2024 working with Big Telly Theatre and colleagues at SODA. A reflection on the future of mourning and grief tech,…
PRG member Amaia Mugica is bringing new performance Miss Brexit to Contact Theatre (Manchester). A satire musical parody of a Miss Universe contest. Who will YOU crown MISS BREXIT? Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council…
PRG member, Joe Ward Munrow, has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural Robert Holman Award. The award, created by the Royal Literary Fund in honour of the British dramatist Robert Holman, recognises playwright from or based in the…
Zodwa Nyoni is showing a new short Opera at Buxton International Festival this July. Tears Are Not Meant To Stay Inside is an ancestral ritual of healing and release. Nomvula feels displaced and invisible in her life. She goes to a…
PRG member Josh Edelman is visiting Villanova University in Philadelphia for a workshop of the Postsecular Performance Network. He will talk about postsecular performances of pastoral care and religious community with scholars in religion, performance and politics from around the…
Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer and PRG member Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who fought to liberate Africa. Receiving its World Premiere…
Emerging out of a series of workshops exploring the dialogical relationship between contemporary dance technique, improvisation and creative reflection, this choreography has been created by Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk in collaboration with a group of participants including professional independent artists and students…