Dr. Laura Bissell and I have co-written an essay about how theatre and performance responded to (and contributed to) last year’s Scottish independence debate (available in a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on ‘Electoral Theatre’, and accompanied by a short film of interviews with artists).
Dr. Laura Bissell and I travelled north through Finland last year on a ‘mobile train conference’. Our account of the journey is available in Cultural Geographies
Bullet Catch by Rob Drummond, a play that I co-directed for the Arches arts centre, will be at the PuSh Festival, Vancouver, 15 Jan – 7 Feb
Herald Angel Award 2012, Total Theatre Award 2012, Belfast Telegraph Critics Award 2013
My keynote speech for the British Sociological Association Postgraduate Conference, co-authored with Dr. Laura Bissell, has just been published. Read it in the Scottish Journal of Performance
My new article has just been published. Read it in Studies in Theatre and Performance
Underneath the Arches was a three year project by David Overend at the Arches arts centre in Glasgow. Between 2007 and 2010, a series of site-specific performances aimed to respond to and generate relationships in the site.
Click here to watch videos of the performances …
…and follow the links below to read articles about them:
The project led to a PhD with the University of Glasgow. The written part of the thesis can be accessed here.
For more information on David Overend visit davidoverend.net
