A series of activities that help us think about where we are by reflecting on where we have come from and where we are going
Arts OneQueen Mary University of LondonMile End Road
Join Conor Moloney, Rachele Shamouni-Naghde, and Lois Weaver for a conversation on how they have a thing about tables.
Conor Moloney is currently completing doctoral studies on the staging of public life, co-supervised in the School of Geography and the School of English & Drama.
My ‘thing’ about tables is that they seem to be bound up with public life in ways that might not be entirely obvious at first sight: in the 17th century coffee house, in the House of Commons, in Jubilee Street parties, in all sorts of table-top games, and so on.
Rachele Shamouni-Naghde recently completed her doctorate on hospitality at the School of Geography.
My work explores the intersections, and embraces the tension, between heritage, that is the construction of continuity, and hospitality, that is the necessarily improvised, and impossible. The table acts as a threshold space where routes, stories and images from past trajectories are drawn and cross with the present, and with what is yet to come.
Lois Weaver is Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London and collaborator with the Split Britches Company.
I just love tables and the way they can be sites of connection and conversation.
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Lauren Barri Holstein will offer a 3-part workshop on understanding consent from an embodied perspective. In this series, we will encourage trusting relationships with our sexuality, our bodies, and our voice.
We will engage in embodied and somatic exercises, meditation, journalling, and a Long Table discussion to explore themes, such as:
embodiment; relationships to our gender; sexual and pleasure anatomy; intimacy and touch; consent; healthy “fight” and resilience; self-trust; shame and other difficult emotions.
This workshop celebrates individual anatomy, and is designed for young women, womxn, young people living in bodies with vulvas, and any young person who feels disconnected from themselves, their bodies or their identities, aged 16-25.
This series is part of a larger research project to develop The Wolf Den, a sex education programme for girls and/or young people living in bodies with vulvas. We hope to bring this programme to universities and schools across the country. It is currently supported by Arts Council England and Central School of Speech and Drama.
Please email laurenbarrih@gmail.com with any questions. We ask that participants are available to attend all 3 sessions.
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Celebrating the spirit of QM Drama present, future + past, in objects.
The expansive community of QM Drama has been invited to bring items to the Legacy + Lineage Lounge that encapsulate something of their time here. This might be an object that sparks a memory or raises a smile. An artefact from a particular project. Words of wisdom, given or received. A photograph of a significant moment. Something that expresses a future desire. A small bag of possibilities & potentials. These objects are added to the evolving collection to create a collaborative display.
Come and see the installation as it gathers and accumulates in real-time.
Read and hear the layers of stories connected to the items on display.
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A book launch and discussion that argues the case for theatre studies coordinated by Jen Harvie (QMUL) and Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway)
This panel and discussion event chaired by Jen Harvie (QMUL) and Dan Rebellato (RHUL) will argue the case for the value of theatre and theatre studies. Speakers David Eldridge (Birkbeck), Margherita Laera (Kent), Trish Reid (Reading), Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Michael McKinnie, and Aoife Monks (all QMUL) will each offer three-minute provocations answering, ‘What is the value of theatre/theatre studies?’ Speakers will consider what theatre/theatre studies help us understand better, how, and what they foster, such as communication, reflection, livelihoods, economies, communities, debate, pleasure, and more. Discussion will follow. This event launches The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945 (2024), co-edited by Harvie and Rebellato, and will reflect on the book series Theatre & (Bloomsbury), co-edited by Harvie and Rebellato from 2006 to 2023 and now by Margherita Laera and Natalie Álvarez (Toronto Metropolitan University). Drinks and snacks will be available. The event is free. The space is accessible.
Jen Harvie is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of contemporary performance and on how artists make work, especially in neoliberal contexts of production and living. Her authored books include Fair Play – Art, Performance and Neoliberalism, Theatre & the City, Staging the UK, and The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (with Paul Allain, 3rd edition forthcoming 2024). Co/editing includes The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945, three special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review, Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes, Scottee: I Made It, and The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver. With Dan Rebellato, she co-founded the series of small books Theatre & (Bloomsbury) and co-edited it for 17 years, and she interviews performance makers on her podcast Stage Left (https://soundcloud.com/stage_left).
Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London and has published widely on contemporary British theatre. His books include 1956 and All That, Theatre & Globalization, The Suspect Culture Book, Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009, and, for the National Theatre’s Backstage Guide series, Playwriting. He is co-editor of Contemporary European Theatre Directors, Contemporary European Playwrights, and The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945. With Jen Harvie, he co-founded the series of small books Theatre & (Bloomsbury) and co-edited it for 17 years. As a playwright, his work for stage and radio includes Here’s What I Did with My Body One Day, Static, Chekhov in Hell, Emily Rising, You & Me, 7 Ghosts, and Restless Dreams.
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For those concerned with the future of theatre and theatre education set amongst the array of artefacts in the Legacy & Lineage Lounge