Stephen Bottoms
Biographic Data
| ID | 6359526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Bottoms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bottoms |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTOMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass (review)
Reviewed by: Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass Stephen Bottoms Einstein on the Beach. By Robert Wilson and Philip Glass. Choreographed by Lucinda Childs. Barbican Centre, London. 12 May 2012. “Is that it?” I whispered to my companion at the end of four-and-a-quarter hours of Wilson and Glass’s sensory sumptuousness. There was no disappointment implied in those words, no “what was the big deal?” Einstein on the Beach is still…
Remote intimations: Performance art and environmental illness
This article explores and documents the work of leading Midwestern performance artist Julie Laffin, in the years since she developed a serious form of environmental illness (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity). This condition has effectively rendered her housebound and unable to appear in public, so that her previous live performance practice – which typically took place in public, urban spaces – has necessarily been curtailed. In attempting to reinve…
Climate change ‘science’ on the London stage
This article considers climate change as a contested cultural idea, which is mediated to the public through varying forms of cultural narrative whose conventions and rhetorics impact significantly on how the ‘story’ is told. Specifically, it examines four recent British stage plays, each of which depict climate change scientists as central characters. These are Steve Waters' The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009), Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes i…
Silent partners: Actor and audience in Geese Theatre's Journey Woman
This essay considers the performance context and aesthetics of Journey Woman, a play devised to initiate a week-long rehabilitative groupwork programme for female prisoners. Although Geese Theatre UK are one of the country's longest-established companies specialising in drama work within the criminal justice sector, this 2006 piece is their first created specifically for female audiences. The essay explores the rationale behind Geese's key aesthe…
Putting the Document into Documentary: An Unwelcome Corrective
“Verbatim drama,” the current trend in British documentary theatre, capitalizes on the presumed authenticity of the voices represented and on the “unmediated” theatricalization of the truths they ostensibly reveal. The works of Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project present an alternative, appropriating avantgarde theatre techniques and acknowledging the presence of the artist in shaping the representation of the realities depicted
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of new essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from…
Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra (review)
Reviewed by: Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra Stephen Bottoms Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra. By the Wooster Group. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. The Performing Garage, New York City. 0604 2004. New York's Wooster Group have long been celebrated for their radical reworkings—or "deconstructions"—of well-known dramatic texts. Most recently, Racine's Phèdrebecame the occasion for a manic, onstage badminton game in 2002's To You, The Birdie…
The Tangled Flora of Goat Island: Rhizome, Repetition, Reality
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu Stephen J. Bottoms (bio) Roy Marcus Cohn (1926–1986) was a prodigiously talented but notoriously unscrupulous lawyer, who played a significant role in several of the most dramatic episodes of post-World War II American history. In the early 1950s, as a young Assistant U.S. Attorney, he first came to public attention as prosecuting counsel in the trial of the alleged spies Julius and Ethel Ros…
Climate change ‘science’ on the London stage
This article considers climate change as a contested cultural idea, which is mediated to the public through varying forms of cultural narrative whose conventions and rhetorics impact significantly on how the ‘story’ is told. Specifically, it examines four recent British stage plays, each of which depict climate change scientists as central characters. These are Steve Waters' The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009), Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes i…
The Tangled Flora of Goat Island: Rhizome, Repetition, Reality
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu Stephen J. Bottoms (bio) Roy Marcus Cohn (1926–1986) was a prodigiously talented but notoriously unscrupulous lawyer, who played a significant role in several of the most dramatic episodes of post-World War II American history. In the early 1950s, as a young Assistant U.S. Attorney, he first came to public attention as prosecuting counsel in the trial of the alleged spies Julius and Ethel Ros…
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu
Re-staging Roy: Citizen Cohn and the Search for Xanadu Stephen J. Bottoms (bio) Roy Marcus Cohn (1926–1986) was a prodigiously talented but notoriously unscrupulous lawyer, who played a significant role in several of the most dramatic episodes of post-World War II American history. In the early 1950s, as a young Assistant U.S. Attorney, he first came to public attention as prosecuting counsel in the trial of the alleged spies Julius and Ethel Ros…
The Tangled Flora of Goat Island: Rhizome, Repetition, Reality
Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra (review)
Reviewed by: Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra Stephen Bottoms Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra. By the Wooster Group. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. The Performing Garage, New York City. 0604 2004. New York's Wooster Group have long been celebrated for their radical reworkings—or "deconstructions"—of well-known dramatic texts. Most recently, Racine's Phèdrebecame the occasion for a manic, onstage badminton game in 2002's To You, The Birdie…
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of new essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from…
Putting the Document into Documentary: An Unwelcome Corrective
“Verbatim drama,” the current trend in British documentary theatre, capitalizes on the presumed authenticity of the voices represented and on the “unmediated” theatricalization of the truths they ostensibly reveal. The works of Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project present an alternative, appropriating avantgarde theatre techniques and acknowledging the presence of the artist in shaping the representation of the realities depicted
Silent partners: Actor and audience in Geese Theatre's Journey Woman
This essay considers the performance context and aesthetics of Journey Woman, a play devised to initiate a week-long rehabilitative groupwork programme for female prisoners. Although Geese Theatre UK are one of the country's longest-established companies specialising in drama work within the criminal justice sector, this 2006 piece is their first created specifically for female audiences. The essay explores the rationale behind Geese's key aesthe…
Remote intimations: Performance art and environmental illness
This article explores and documents the work of leading Midwestern performance artist Julie Laffin, in the years since she developed a serious form of environmental illness (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity). This condition has effectively rendered her housebound and unable to appear in public, so that her previous live performance practice – which typically took place in public, urban spaces – has necessarily been curtailed. In attempting to reinve…
Climate change ‘science’ on the London stage
This article considers climate change as a contested cultural idea, which is mediated to the public through varying forms of cultural narrative whose conventions and rhetorics impact significantly on how the ‘story’ is told. Specifically, it examines four recent British stage plays, each of which depict climate change scientists as central characters. These are Steve Waters' The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre, 2009), Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes i…
Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass (review)
Reviewed by: Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass Stephen Bottoms Einstein on the Beach. By Robert Wilson and Philip Glass. Choreographed by Lucinda Childs. Barbican Centre, London. 12 May 2012. “Is that it?” I whispered to my companion at the end of four-and-a-quarter hours of Wilson and Glass’s sensory sumptuousness. There was no disappointment implied in those words, no “what was the big deal?” Einstein on the Beach is still…
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