Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 7523597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Stowell-Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stowell-Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | STOWELL-KAPLAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is also Editorial Assistant at Modern Drama. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences (including PSi, CATR, and NeMLA) and recently coedited a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review, with T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Didier Morelli, titled “Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out” (Spring 2015). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, or the “Real” Sherlock Holmes
In 1901, the popular American actor and playwright, William Gillette, arrived in the United Kingdom to tour his new play, Sherlock Holmes . Born in Connecticut in 1853, Gillette was by this time a well-established actor and playwright in his native United States and not unknown to British audiences. Just a few years earlier, he had brought his play Secret Service to London, where his performance as an American Union spy had “created a sensation.”…
(C)Overt Operations
In ‘(C)Overt Operations: Detective disguise and the threat of deception,’ Isabel Stowell-Kaplan explores the productive tensions and contradictions rife in the theatrical performance of undercover operations. Beginning with the introduction of the New Police in the mid-nineteenth century, the article shows how the institution of a centralized police force in London laid bare anxieties about police power and the sort of state surveillance the Brit…
Playing with Then and Now
In the Domain of The Nether
Set in a digital future of virtual realms and imagined spaces, Jeremy Herrin’s production of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether questions what it might mean to exist outside of consequence. Blurring the lines between virtuality, reality, and theatricality, The Nether demands that we reconsider just how we make sense of the world and ourselves
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In the Domain of The Nether
Set in a digital future of virtual realms and imagined spaces, Jeremy Herrin’s production of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether questions what it might mean to exist outside of consequence. Blurring the lines between virtuality, reality, and theatricality, The Nether demands that we reconsider just how we make sense of the world and ourselves
(C)Overt Operations
In ‘(C)Overt Operations: Detective disguise and the threat of deception,’ Isabel Stowell-Kaplan explores the productive tensions and contradictions rife in the theatrical performance of undercover operations. Beginning with the introduction of the New Police in the mid-nineteenth century, the article shows how the institution of a centralized police force in London laid bare anxieties about police power and the sort of state surveillance the Brit…
Playing with Then and Now
William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, or the “Real” Sherlock Holmes
In 1901, the popular American actor and playwright, William Gillette, arrived in the United Kingdom to tour his new play, Sherlock Holmes . Born in Connecticut in 1853, Gillette was by this time a well-established actor and playwright in his native United States and not unknown to British audiences. Just a few years earlier, he had brought his play Secret Service to London, where his performance as an American Union spy had “created a sensation.”…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Art history (1 work)