Chris Baldwin, a devised theatre practitioner and co-editor of a practical guide to devising theatre, lists the devising director’s responsibilities as building a production and performance team, timetabling, compiling documentation of the rehearsal process and, crucially, fulfilling the role of spectator as the devised show is developed and rehearsed. Described by Baldwin as ‘at the centre of ...

twentieth century french theatre has strongly been affected by world wars i and ii, obviously resulting in a change of existing dramatic principles. samuel beckett well known innovator in the field of the avant-garde, probed the theatre with a naked form and far from conventional regulations and dramatic arrangements. beckett's theatre is known as the beginning of the new method in writing...

OBJECTIVES To investigate associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) at delivery (using pregnancy-specific BMI cut-off values 5 kg/m2 higher in each of the WHO groups) and clinical, theatre utilisation and health economic outcomes for women undergoing caesarean section (CS). DESIGN A prospective multicentre observational study. SETTING Seven secondary or tertiary referral obstetric...

This article discusses Visionaries, a forum theatre project on sexuality and disability in Zimbabwe. Focus is placed on the notion of beauty and its association with myths of sexuality among disabled and non-disabled persons. The paper posits that forum theatre can be a significant site to negotiate the complexities and possibilities of disability and sexual corporeality. This article discusses...

This article explores two theatre events that are considered here as examples of diegetic theatre. The two events, Iris Brunette (2009) by Melanie Wilson and Whisper (2008) by Proto-type Theater have been selected as they both use narration as a strategy to create an „immersive‟ theatre experience, specifically second person narrative. They are positioned here as examples of diegetic as opposed...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a theatre production on smoking-related attitudes, norms, and intentions of children in grades 1-6 (aged 6-12 years). DESIGN Seventeen schools were randomly selected among 160 that were participating in the implementation of the theatre production 2 Smart 2 Smoke. Schools that participated in the theatre production after 3 December 1997 were assigned as con...

AIM Near miss event reporting is widely used in industry to highlight potentially unsafe areas or practice. The aim of this study was to see if a descriptive method of recording near misses was an appropriate method for use in an ophthalmic operating theatre and to quantify how many untoward events were recorded using this system. METHODS The study was wholly conducted in a cataract theatre i...

Robots of varying kinds are appearing with increasing frequency in all manner of staged theatrical productions (see [1] and [2] for examples). While the individual productions are often greeted with positive receptions from their audiences, it is difficult to determine how the general public may react to the very idea of robots on stage acting alongside humans. While robots are growing more cap...