Don’t fall for the donkey leader shtickIt’s almost exactly a month since Tory MPs gave a ‘vote of confidence’ in their leader and confidence has never been so fatally…Jul 6, 2022Jul 6, 2022
Rees-Mogg squared: the end of funding for the arts?On Monday, The Stage announced that the government is to conduct a review of ‘arm’s-length bodies’, including Arts Council England, under…May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Race to the Bottom: Racialization and Proletarianization in the British Theatre of the Long (white)…Thank you to the University of Warwick’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies for inviting me to present alongside Jaz…May 12, 2022May 12, 2022
Lovely Wars and Afro-Saxons: Towards a Conjunctural Theatre HistoriographyIt was a pleasure today to talk (at the Theatre and Performance Research Association Conference 2021) about Stuart Hall’s conception of the…Sep 8, 2021Sep 8, 2021
Some reflections on activism to support workers with caring responsibilities in the performing artsAs part of the US-based Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, I took part in a roundtable discussion called ‘Reimagining…Aug 8, 2021Aug 8, 2021
Lecture: An Introduction to Stuart Hall on Race, Racism and Anti-RacismThis was an introductory lecture I gave to PhD students in June 2021 as part of a two-day seminar on the work of Stuart Hall organised by…Jul 31, 2021Jul 31, 2021
Toxic Whiteness: An Atmospheric Analysis of Institutional RacismI gave this paper in the Political Performances Working Group at the 2021 conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research…Jul 14, 2021Jul 14, 2021
Beyond Inclusion Conference ResponseI was asked to be a respondent to the SCUDD (Standing Conference of University Drama Departments) 2021 conference. SCUDD is the…Jun 26, 2021Jun 26, 2021
Equity’s IniquityOn Friday morning, in what I can only assume was a response to a threat of legal action from atonal man-baby Laurence Fox, Equity (the…Mar 14, 2020Mar 14, 2020
Impartial my arseI’m going to have to make this quick. I’m supposed to be finishing a book and doing all of the other things academics have to do, not to…Sep 27, 2019Sep 27, 2019
