Showing papers by "Royal Central School of Speech and Drama published in 2021"

The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology, Cathy Malchiodi (ed.) (2018)

Abstract: Review of: The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology, Cathy Malchiodi (ed.) (2018) London and Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 416 pp., ISBN 978-1-78592-792-8, p/bk, £24.99

Decentering Listening: Toward an Anti-Discriminatory Approach to Accent and Dialect Training for the Actor

Abstract: This article reports on the findings of practice-based research into the development of anti-discriminatory accents and dialects training for actors with diverse intersecting identities. The author reviews an earlier strand of research into speech training within a UK conservatory that identified a bias toward Received Pronunciation reinforced by colonized listening practices. This article explores the impact of those listening practices on accent and dialect training. The author responds to the challenges inherent in providing training that both develops high-level skills and meets industry needs, while aiming to center the experiences of somatically othered students. The author develops their previous decolonizing model into a decentering framework for an approach to training actors that draws on critical pedagogy and asks students to cross the border from the conservatory into the community. This approach to accent and dialect training builds on verbatim and documentary theatre-making techniques, resulting in a practice that values empathy, listening, embodied practice, and autonomy, and the approach allows actors to perform “multiple authenticities,” while offering the potential for political insurgency within the performing arts industries.

The potential of radical kindness as a methodology in applied theatre in arts and health

Abstract: This article outlines an ongoing collaborative partnership between Positively UK and practitioner researchers and artists in the United Kingdom. In the article I issue a rallying call for the field of applied theatre to engage with radical kindness as a methodology. Drawing on practice-based collaborative partnerships which began in 2016, I consider the potential of taking a radically kind approach to the practice and offer examples of quiet advocacy in which the quotidian and the mundanity of everyday life can be appreciated as both ordinary and extraordinary. The practice theorised here is underpinned by an understanding of the space in which health is viewed and discussed as stigmatised and embodying a legacy of a particular gaze, especially relevant to the field of sexual and reproductive health. The applied theatre site, therefore, can function as a place of exploration where radically kind spaces are held for the co-participants to use.

Editorial: taking a snapshot of theatre and performance studies

Abstract: When, in September 2018, Tom Cornford, Glenn Odom and Marilena Zaroulia joined the editorial team of Studies in Theatre and Performance as new Associate editors, we were presented with the task tha...

Ways of making: Artistic practice which works co-collaboratively, ethically and which celebrates and extends the conversation of what it means to live well with HIV.

Abstract: This letter is the start of a dialogue about ways of making theatre cocollaboratively with women living with HIV. It offers a series of ideas of what I believe constitutes engaging and ethical practice specifically in the field of working co-collaboratively with women living well with HIV, and what is important to do, as well as what the basic non-negotiables are in establishing such a practice.