Deluge at Soho Theatre
One of our members Andrea Maciel is taking a show she’s directed to Soho Theatre on Tuesday 18 February. Deluge – a one woman show by Gabriela Flarys. In the wake of a relationship, a woman tries to contain the…
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Michael Pinchbeck is a Nottingham-based writer and theatre-maker. He co-founded Metro-Boulot-Dodo in 1997 after studying Theatre and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse to write The White Album (2006), The Ashes (2011) and Bolero (2014), premiering at Nottingham Playhouse before touring Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo supported by the British Council. His work has been selected four times for the British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase. In 2018, he was commissioned by New Perspectives to adapt Berger and Mohr's 1967 book, A Fortunate Man, which toured to Edinburgh, Singapore and Cologne. He has completed two sequels, A Seventh Man, supported by Arts Council England and British Council, which toured to Cologne, and Another Way of Telling, commissioned by Harrogate Theatre and supported by Manchester School of Art. He is currently making a new piece with Kevin Egan, Matchstalks Remastered, supported by Word of Warning. He has recently received commissions for immersive audio installations from HOME (Manchester), Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham), Nottingham Confucius Institute and S.H.E.D (Derby).
Michael has an MA in Performance & Live Art from Nottingham Trent University and a PhD from Loughborough University exploring the role of the dramaturg in contemporary performance. He has written articles for Contemporary Theatre Review, Dance Theatre Journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Performance Research. His work features in DIY: Do It Yourself, Performing Ruins (Palgrave) and The Twenty First Century Performance Reader (Routledge). He has co-convened three academic conferences - Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (University of Lincoln), Where From Here: 21 Years of Third Angel (Leeds Beckett University) and Performing Scores, Scoring Performance (Manchester Met). He has co-edited Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (Palgrave Macmillan) with Andrew Westerside, Acts of Dramaturgy: The Shakespeare Trilogy (Intellect) and The Ravel Trilogy: Following the Score (Intellect) with Ollie Smith. He is currently working on a new book for the Intellect playtext series, Ways of Staging: The Berger & Mohr Trilogy, with Frances Babbage. He is Professor of Theatre and the Professorial Research Lead for the Art & Performance Research Hub.
Miss Brexit
Director and senior lecturer, Amaia Mugica, has secured Arts Council England funding to redevelop the award-winning play Miss Brexit, scheduling a new run in Manchester. Co-directed by Amaia Mugica and Alejandro Postigo, this satire explores migrant identity in post-Brexit Britain…
Igniting Creativity: Art, Education, Transformation and Change
Dr Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk was recently invited to deliver a paper at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance ‘Igniting Creativity: Art, Education, Transformation and Change’ conference in January 2025. Rachel was peaking about the notion of correspondence in relation to their…
The Stage Top 50 Shows
Our recent collaboration with Big Telly Theatre in Northern Ireland and colleagues at the School of Digital Art has been recognised by The Stage. Granny Jackson’s Dead, an immersive performance that intertwines traditional Irish wake customs with advanced technology, has…
Rhythms of Resistance: Embodiment and Liberation
Intercultural Roots and Puma Camillê Producoes (Brazil) are delighted to receive £75,000 funding from the International Collaboration Grants, run by the British Council to support the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers…
Queer Up North
A new project has been awarded Heritage Lottery Funding to collect, preserve and celebrate Queer Up North Aiming to develop, build and curate one of the UK’s most significant archives of historical LGBTQIA+ materials focussing on the QUN Festivals between1992-2002…
Future Flares Festival 2025
Future Flares Festival returns once again, with a curated programme of innovative politically engaged performances, plus related talks and workshops. This year’s line-up will feature work from radical performance makers including ‘Get Off’, an ‘in yer face’ look at desire by Katy…
Call for Papers: On Scores
Members of the Performance Research Group are involved in editing an issue of Performance Research ‘On Scores’ following our conference on the same theme at HOME, Scoring Performance, Performing Scores, in July 2023. This issue will be co-edited by Kevin Egan, Michael Pinchbeck,…
VANYA in New York
Direct from a sold-out run in London, Andrew Scott (Ripley, All of Us Strangers) brings to life multiple characters in Tony Award® winner (and Performance Research Group member) Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version…
SINGING GRAPHICS IN VR: EXHIBITION AND PLAYTEST
The Manchester Game Centre is proud to support an exhibition of two VR artworks by Performance Research Group member, Adinda van’t Klooster: the AudioVirtualizer (2019) and VRoar (2023). You can experience these artworks and take part in a playtest and…