Clean Break Theatre Company

This Element examines three areas of Clean Break's theatre making history and organisational practices: its origin stories; its education and engagement work; and how the company's performance practices have adapted to directly intervene in carceral society.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Origin stories; 2. Education as a practice of endurance; 3. Facts, fictions and narratives of knowing in carceral society; Conclusion; References.

About the author

Dr Caoimhe McAvincheyis Reader in Socially Engaged and Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this she established the MA Applied Drama: Theatre in Educational, Community and Social Contexts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is author of Theatre & Prison(2011) and Performance and Community: Case Studies and Commentary(2013).

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Bartley, Sarah (University of Reading) Bartley, Deborah Dean, Deborah (University of Warwick) Dean, Anne-marie Greene, Anne-marie (University of York) Greene, Caoimhe McAvinchey, Caoimhe (Queen Mary University of Lond Mcavinchey, Caoimhe (Queen Mary University of London) McAvinchey, McAvinchey Caoimhe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009525855
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0952585-5
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theatre Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, theatre studies; performance studies