Nadine Holdsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4502677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Holdsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Holdsworth |
| SIGNATURE | HOLDSWORTH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2965-8634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disrupting monopoly
In 2019 a pilot project called ‘Homeless Monopoly’ evolved in Coventry to investigate how arts methodologies, dramatic scenarios and gamification could be used to raise awareness in young people regarding homelessness. This article investigates the origins and collaborative development of this project, but specifically focuses on how piloting the game in schools, colleges and universities has raised questions about the ways in which resourcefulne…
English Theatre and Social Abjection
Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In ap…
English Theatre and Social Abjection
Performing Place, Heritage, and Henry V in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
This article focuses on a reading of an amateur Royal Navy Theatre Association (RNTA) production: Collingwood RSC’s open-air Henry V, which took place alongside the iconic HMS Victory housed in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The production emerged as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages initiative and this article considers how the RNTA, and this production, became implicated in systems of cultural value implicit not only in Open St…
Theatre and National Identity
1. Introduction Nadine Holdsworth Part I: Revisiting 'National' Plays and Cultural Icons 2. It's just changed color?: Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries? Anton Krueger 3. Over and Beyond Under Milk Wood: Dylan Thomas, National Icons and Re-Imagining the Cultural Landscape of Wales Nadine Holdsworth 4. Within These Walls: The Beaux Stratagem, the City of Derry and 'the only Loyalist theatre produce…
Boys don't do dance, do they?’
In 2005, the Warwick Arts Centre launched the ‘Boys Dancing’ project through the formation of the West Midlands Boys Dance Alliance. Aimed exclusively at boys and young men, the project has offered a range of performance-making opportunities with male professionals including Liam Steel (DV8, Stan Won't Dance) and David McKenna (Beingfrank Physical Theatre), with a view to challenge the perception that dance is primarily an activity pursued by gir…
Theatre & Nation
Spaces to play/playing with spaces
Joan Littlewood is best known for offering re-vitalised textual and visual interpretations of classic plays and for her work with new writers, animating representations of working-class life during the 1950s and early 1960s. This picture of Littlewood's contribution to British theatre has cemented her reputation as one of the foremost directors of her generation, but it is only a partial picture of her cultural innovation. As her engagement in ‘t…
Spaces to play/playing with spaces
Joan Littlewood is best known for offering re-vitalised textual and visual interpretations of classic plays and for her work with new writers, animating representations of working-class life during the 1950s and early 1960s. This picture of Littlewood's contribution to British theatre has cemented her reputation as one of the foremost directors of her generation, but it is only a partial picture of her cultural innovation. As her engagement in ‘t…
Theatre & Nation
Boys don't do dance, do they?’
In 2005, the Warwick Arts Centre launched the ‘Boys Dancing’ project through the formation of the West Midlands Boys Dance Alliance. Aimed exclusively at boys and young men, the project has offered a range of performance-making opportunities with male professionals including Liam Steel (DV8, Stan Won't Dance) and David McKenna (Beingfrank Physical Theatre), with a view to challenge the perception that dance is primarily an activity pursued by gir…
Theatre and National Identity
1. Introduction Nadine Holdsworth Part I: Revisiting 'National' Plays and Cultural Icons 2. It's just changed color?: Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries? Anton Krueger 3. Over and Beyond Under Milk Wood: Dylan Thomas, National Icons and Re-Imagining the Cultural Landscape of Wales Nadine Holdsworth 4. Within These Walls: The Beaux Stratagem, the City of Derry and 'the only Loyalist theatre produce…
Performing Place, Heritage, and Henry V in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
This article focuses on a reading of an amateur Royal Navy Theatre Association (RNTA) production: Collingwood RSC’s open-air Henry V, which took place alongside the iconic HMS Victory housed in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The production emerged as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages initiative and this article considers how the RNTA, and this production, became implicated in systems of cultural value implicit not only in Open St…
English Theatre and Social Abjection
Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In ap…
English Theatre and Social Abjection
Disrupting monopoly
In 2019 a pilot project called ‘Homeless Monopoly’ evolved in Coventry to investigate how arts methodologies, dramatic scenarios and gamification could be used to raise awareness in young people regarding homelessness. This article investigates the origins and collaborative development of this project, but specifically focuses on how piloting the game in schools, colleges and universities has raised questions about the ways in which resourcefulne…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · General (2 works) · Law (2 works)