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Building the Activist Classroom: Learning to Collaborate, Learning through Performance in English 2470: Canadian Drama (with Paige-Tiffany Beck and Lauren Moore), Canadian Theatre Review (2011)

This article, co-authored with two of my former undergraduate students, considers what went right –...

 

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Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)

Can theatre kill? If it can, where does that leave its scholars, students, practitioners? What...

 

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Artifacting an Intercultural Nation: Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES, TDR: The Drama Review (2010)

At first, BIOBOXES, by Vancouver's Theatre Replacement, seems like straightforward multiculti fare—theatre celebrating Canada's cultural...

 

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Realism and the Ethics of Risk at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Bulletin (2010)

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience...

 

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Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto (with Laura Levin), TDR: The Drama Review (2009)

Toronto markets itself as a city in renewal, a “creative city” of the future full...

 

Zombies in Condoland (with Laura Levin), Canadian Theatre Review (2009)
 

Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity, Performance and the City (2009)

As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the...

 

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Body Doubles, Babel's Voices: Katie Mitchell's Iphigenia at Aulis and the Theatre of Sacrifice, Contemporary Theatre Review (2008)

What happens to a body when circumstance demands it enact its own forgetting? What reaction...

 

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The Line, the Crack, and the Possibility of Architecture: Figure, Ground, Feminist Performance, Theatre Research in Canada (2008)

How and where do architecture and performance collide? Theatre studies has been, over the course...

 

Vertical City: Staging Urban Discomfort, Canadian Theatre Review (2008)
 

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Blasted’s Hysteria: Rape, Realism, and the Thresholds of the Visible, Modern Drama (2007)

A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted: the rape...

 

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Rape’s Metatheatrical Return: Rehearsing Sexual Violence Among the Early Moderns, Theatre Journal (2006)

What happens when theatre crosses the line, risks danger in the real? This paper explores...

 

Books

Performance and the City (with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr) (2011)

Urban Studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now...

 

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Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009)

Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance explores rape and domestic violence against women around...

 

Journal Issues

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The Activist Classroom: Performance and Pedagogy, Canadian Theatre Review (2011)

As teachers of theatre history, theory, and performance theory and practice we engage in crucial...