Abstract
Backpages is an opportunity for the academy to engage with theatre and performance practice with immediacy and insight, and for theatre workers and performance artists to engage critically and reflectively on their work and the work of their peers.
Notes
1. Lost Dog, ‘In A Nutshell’, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMX1_bE7U8 (accessed November 1, 2022).
2. Tim Crouch, Truth’s A Dog Must to Kennel (London: Methuen Drama, 2022), 6.
3. Ibid., 14.
4. Catherine Love, ‘Tim Crouch: Theatre will grow back stronger if we plant a different crop’, Guardian, July 7, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/07/tim-crouch-theatre-will-grow-back-stronger-if-we-plant-a-different-crop (accessed November 1, 2022).
5. Crouch, Truth’s, 15.
6. Martin Crimp, ‘Not One of These People’, Carte Blanche, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ca9wZ04TDA (accessed January 19, 2023).
7. ‘This Person Does Not Exist’, https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (accessed January 19, 2023). Imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network), ‘StyleGAN2’, December 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958 (accessed January 19, 2023).
8. Robert Holman, ‘Introduction’, Plays: One (London: Nick Hern Books, 2019), xviii.
9. Robert Holman, Making Noise Quietly (London: Nick Hern Books, 2012), 89.
10. Holman, Plays: One, xvii.
11. Robert Holman, Jonah and Otto (London: Nick Hern Books, 2014), 7.
12. Robert Holman and Rachel Clements, ‘The Lodger – Robert Holman’s Interview Part 2’, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAukIHKuRu0 (accessed December 27, 2023).
13. Robert Holman, The Lodger (London: Nick Hern Books, 2021), iii.
14. Robert Holman, Jonah and Otto (London: Nick Hern, 2014), 66.
15. Nick Hern Books, ‘Making Noise Quietly’, https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/making-noise-quietly-three-short-plays. (accessed December 18, 2023).
16. Robert Holman, Plays: One (London, Nick Hern, 2019), xv.
17. Ibid., xix.
18. Ibid., xv.
19. Ibid., 257.
20. Ibid., 257–58.
21. Ibid., xv.
22. Lyn Gardner, ‘Review: Across Oka/Rafts and Dreams’ Guardian, October 8, 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/oct/08/theatre2 (accessed December 18, 2023).
23. Chris Wiegand, ‘Robert Holman, “Extraordinary and influential” Playwright, Dies Aged 69’, Guardian December 4, 2021, (accessed December 18, 2023).