I write, often collaboratively, to bring the practice into a spoken experience. The process makes me reflect on what I do in practice, and articulate formally some of that work. The written form stays with me and when I move on to the next piece of directing I can use it to nourish the practice.
Articles and chapters in books
| 2024 | ‘Directing Shōgo Ōta’sElements: From Form to Body’, in (Re)sounding Bodies East and West: Embodied Engagements with Japanese Traditions, eds Gretchen Jude and Lynette Hunter. Special Issue: Performance Matters Spring 2024. |
| 2022 | ‘Learning with Broken Words: Directing with collaborative dramaturgy, Plastic Rose by Shōgo Ōta’, in Dramaturgies of Interweaving, eds Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christel Weiler, Torsten Jost (Taylor and Francis), 236-248. |
| 2021 | ‘Peter Sellars’ Work in Theatre Directing,’ in James Peck ed. Jesusa Rodriguez, Peter Sellars, Reza Abdoh: Theatre in the Public Sphere. Vol 8: The Great North American Stage Directors. Methuen Drama, 106-130. |
| 2020: | ‘Intercultural Listening: Awkwardness, hesitation, silence in a production of Elements by Shogo Ota’ with Regina Gutiérrez and Kevin O’Connor. Performance Research 25-6/7: 243-8. http: //dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2020.1842022 |
| 2018: | Directing Realism, in Shakespeare and Realism On the Politics of Style. Farleigh Dickinson Press. |
| 2016: | Kantor’s Director: "I Will Be Myself but I Will Be With the Actors" in Sentient Performativities of Embodiment – Thinking alongside the Human. Lexington Books, Lanham. 175 –194 |
| 2015: | ‘Interval’ with Dylan Bolles, in ed Bryan Reynolds Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories (Palgrave) |
| 2014: | ‘(Un)editing with (Non)fictional Bodies: Pope’s Daggers’ with L. Hunter, in eds Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders Editing, Performing, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early English Drama (Palgrave) . |
| 2013: | ‘Peter Sellar’s Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays’, Performance, Politics, Activism (Palgrave) |
| 2012: | ‘Matthew Street’ in Liverpool Playhouse: A Theatre and Its City, ed. Ros Merkin (Liverpool University Press) |
| 2009: | ‘Embodiment’, Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research, in eds S. Riley and L. Hunter (Palgrave). |
| 2009: | ‘Lev Dodin: The Director and Cultural Memory’, European Theatre Directors, in eds M. Delgado and D. Rebellato (Routledge). |
| 2006: | ‘Editors’ Forum’, with Janelle Reinelt et al, Theatre Survey 47:2 |
| 2005: | ‘Text and Voice’, with L. Magnusson and J. Jenstad, in Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, eds L. Hunter and P. Lichtenfels (The Arden Shakespeare). |
| 2005: | ‘The eye of man hath not heard,/ The ear of man hath not seen”: Teaching Tools for Speaking Shakespeare’ in Shakespeare and Performance, eds Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen (Blackwell Publishing). |
| 2004: | ‘Shakespeare and Voice’ in eds L. Hunter and P. Lichtenfels Shakespeare, Language and the Stage (Arden Shakespeare). |
| 2004: | ‘Negotiations Between Text and Stage in Romeo and Juliet’, with L. Hunter, Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 22, Number 2. |
| 2003: | Review of Hamlet in Pieces, Shakespeare Reworked: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson by Andy Lavender. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 13 (3). |
| 2003: | ‘Shakespeare's Language in the Theatre’, in eds S. Adamson et al, Reading Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language, (Arden Shakespeare). |
| 2002: | ‘Seeing through the national and global stereotypes: British Theatre in Crisis?’, with L. Hunter, in eds M. Delgado and C. Svich, Theatre in Crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century (Manchester University Press). |
| 2002: | ‘British Theatre and Paris at the end of the Twentieth Century’ in eds David Bradby and Maria Delgado, Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the Paris Stage (Manchester University Press). |